It’s been 19 years since a team has scored 11 goals in one game, but that all changed last night. The Pittsburgh Penguins shot the Detroit Red Wings out of their home PPG Paints Arena.
For the Red Wings it was the second “double-digit defeat” of the season following the 7:10 once morest Toronto. Evgeni Malkin celebrated the 13th hat-trick of his career, with four points the Russian center was one of the main players in the game.
It was only the third time in the last 26 years that a team had scored eleven goals in a game: in January 2003 the Washington Capitals achieved this feat once morest the Florida Panthers, two years earlier the Ottawa Senators celebrated eleven goals once morest the Caps.
With their 40th win of the season, the Penguins cemented their place in the top 3 in the Metropolitan Division and are just three points behind leaders Carolina. 15 games are still on the agenda for the Stahlstadt team before the end of the “regular season”.
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