Dylan Guenther scored twice and added an assist, leading the Utah Hockey Club to a 6-1 victory over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday night.
Jack McBain, Mikhail Sergachev, Nick Bjugstad and Alexander Kerfoot also scored for Utah, which is on a three-game losing streak.
Clayton Keller had three assists and Nick Schmaltz, Michael Carcone and Logan Cooley each added two assists.
Karel Vejmelka made 27 saves in his first win in Pittsburgh.
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby scored his 600th goal in a losing effort.
Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 24 shots for Pittsburgh, which has lost three straight and eight of its last ten (2-5-3).
Utah outshot Pittsburgh 11-10 in the first 20 minutes and led 2-0 after one period.
McBain opened the scoring at 8:54 of the first, one time off the mark, taking a behind-the-back pass from Guenther for the sixth time of the season.
Utah doubled its lead at 13:07 as Sergachev slapped a glove hand past Nedeljkovic for the fifth time of the season.
Crosby got Pittsburgh on the board with a two-man advantage, one off Erik Karlsson’s feed past Vejmelka for his team’s eighth lead 3:11 into the second period.
With the goal, the Penguins captain became just the 21st player in NHL history to reach the 600-goal mark.
Bjugstad restored Utah’s two-goal lead on the power play, redirecting Michael Kesselring’s layup past Nedeljkovic for the fourth time of the season at 10:37.
Guenther made it 4-1 on the power play, beating Schmaltz past Nedeljkovic for the eighth time this season at 6:38 of the third period.
Utah took a 5-1 lead at 7:25 of the third period as Kerfoot redirected Maverick Lamoureux’s layup past Nedeljkovic for the third time of the season.
Guenther added his second of the night on the power play, firing a shot past Nedeljkovic for his team’s ninth-place finish of the season at 15:59 of the third.
Saturday was the first of two meetings between Utah and Pittsburgh this season. The clubs will wrap up the season series on Jan. 29 in Utah.
–Field Level Media
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