Jake Guentzel had a hat trick, including a goal at 13:10 of overtime, to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-4 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Sunday night and give them a 3-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.
St. Louis Blues' Alexander Steen, left, scores on an empty net as Minnesota Wild's Ryan Suter watches during the third period in Game 3 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series Sunday, April 16, 2017, in St. Louis. Werenski, however, did go to the locker room during overtime because the swelling closed his right eye, so the Blue Jackets were forced to play with five defensemen.
Werenski tweeted a photo of himself after the game, which revealed a black eye, stitches on his cheek and gauze in his note.
Blue Jackets' defenseman Zach Werenski took a puck straight to the face during Sunday's Game 3 in Columbus, and he did his best to battle through it. A hat trick by Jake Guentzel, who scored the game-winner in overtime, didn't hurt. Pittsburgh is now 52-21-11 overall and 19-15-7 on the road while the Blue Jackets are 50-26-8 overall and 28-12-1 at home.
I might just make it a rule to bet the Penguins any time they are underdogs during the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
"I don't even know yet", he said.
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Team-mate Marcel Schmelzer added: 'We would have wished very, very much that they could have found another date for the match. It could easily have been a lot worse. " Most of the guys slept as little as I did ", said Weigl. "I can't forget the faces".
Guentzel scored Pittsburgh's first goal in the opening period and got another in the third period before beating Bobrovsky for the victor in OT. Obviously scoring big goals but doing a lot of other things during the game - the penalty kill portion of it, the forecheck, the momentum.
He has six goals in his past eight games.Penguins centres Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby contributed three assists and two assists, respectively, at Columbus.
The Penguins won Game 2 on Friday night, 4-1. Calvert scored the first (in Game 1) while Brandon Saad had the lone tally for Columbus on Friday night. There, he got Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to try and poke the puck away, but Fleury failed, and Atkinson buried the chance. The Blackhawks were ninth in the National Hockey League in offense during the regular season and have the firepower from Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Artemi Panarin down the lineup that can overpower Nashville - when they're clicking.
With every injury the Penguins encounter, an opportunity is born for a young player to make an impact.
The former first-rounder and former reclamation project now has two consecutive game-winning goals.
Bryan Rust had two goals for the Penguins, who rallied from an early 3-1 deficit to take a 4-3 lead in the third period.
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