Penguins’ Malkin suspended one game for high stick
PITTSBURGH >> Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin has been suspended one game for high-sticking the Flyers’ Michael Raffl late in Pittsburgh’s 4-1 win over the Flyers on Monday night.
The league announced the suspension on Tuesday following a hearing between Malkin and the league’s department of player safety.
Raffl and Malkin were tangled up in the neutral zone in the third period with Raffl engaging Malkin physically while Raffl battled for the puck. When the two players broke apart, Raffl punched Malkin in the back of the head and Malkin retaliated by swinging his stick in Raffl’s direction. Malkin received a 10-minute match penalty for the infraction.
The league called Malkin’s swing “intentional.”
Bruins’ Pastrnak out at least two weeks
BOSTON >> Boston’s leading scorer David Pastrnak will miss at least two weeks recovering from surgery on a tendon in his left thumb.
General manager Don Sweeney said Pastrnak was injured when he fell Sunday night after attending a team sponsorship dinner. According to Sweeney, the doctor will reevaluate the injury and the timetable in two weeks, but Pastrnak is expected to return this season.
Pastrnak, 22, is tied for ninth in the NHL with 66 points and is seventh with 31 goals.
BRUINS 6, BLACKHAWKS 3 >> David Krejci, Danton Heinen and Brad Marchand each scored during a four-minute span at the end of the first period and Boston beat the Blackhawks to snap Chicago’s seven-game winning streak.
Krejci scored again in the third period, when Marchand picked up his third assist, to help the Bruins win for the fifth time in six games. Jake DeBrusk and Heinen each had a goal and two assists, and Tuukka Rask stopped 23 shots for Boston. STARS 3, PANTHERS 0 >> Anton Khudobin recorded his second shutout of the season and Tyler Seguin had two goals and an assist as Dallas topped Florida.
LIGHTNING 6, FLAMES 3 >> NHL points leader Nikita Kucherov had a goal and three assists, Brayden Point added a goal and two assists, and Tampa Bay topped Calgary.
Kucherov has 88 points, including seven over his last two games. Kucherov and Point (72) are the second pair of Tampa Bay teammates to reach 70 points in 57 team games. Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier did it in 2006-07. SABRES 3, ISLANDERS 1 >> Jack Eichel set up two goals in leading Buffalo to a win over Metropolitan Division-leading New York.
BLUE JACKETS 3, CAPITALS 0 >> Sergei Bobrovsky made 13 of his 20 saves in the third period to lift Columbus over Washington.
Anthony Duclair, Nick Foligno and Artemi Panarin scored for the Blue Jackets, who won their fourth straight.
HURRICANES 4, SENATORS 1 >> Teuvo Teravainen scored twice and Carolina scored four unanswered goals in the third period to beat Ottawa.