Sidney Crosby swept in a rebound 1:11 into overtime Tuesday for his third point as the Pittsburgh Penguins overcame a pair of two-goal deficits to top the visiting Washington Capitals 5-4.
Crosby notched the 17th OT tally of his career, tying Ilya Kovalchuk for third in NHL history. He trails only Alex Ovechkin (23) and Jaromir Jagr (19).
Pittsburgh won consecutive games between the clubs in Pittsburgh, the first a 4-3 decision in a shootout Sunday. Jake Guentzel and Teddy Blueger each had a goal and an assist while Colton Sceviour and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins. Kris Letang and Crosby each had two assists.
Pittsburgh goaltender Casey DeSmith made 22 saves and picked up his first career assist. Tom Wilson scored twice, Lars Eller and Evgeny Kuznetsov also scored, and Vitek Vanecek made 25 saves for Washington. The Penguins played the scoreless third period with four defensemen after Marcus Pettersson and Juuso Riikola got hurt.
Eller opened the scoring off the rush, putting a shot over DeSmith’s glove for a 1-0 Capitals lead at 4:55 of the first.
Pittsburgh tied it at 16:52 of the first when Kasperi Kapanen, in his Penguins debut, blew into the Washington zone. Sceviour scored on the rebound of Kapanen’s shot. Six seconds later, Wilson put the Capitals up 2-1 with a shot that popped off DeSmith’s shoulder.
Wilson struck again with 16.3 seconds left in the first when he drove to the net and converted a pass from the left-wing boards by John Carlson to make it 3-1. Pittsburgh’s special teams had a special second period, logging a five-on-three goal, a three-on-five short-handed goal and a conventional man-advantage goal.
The sequence started with Guentzel, who swept the puck past Vanecek after a pass across the top of the crease from Bryan Rust while the Penguins had a two-man advantage to cut it to 3-2 at 5:45. Kuznetsov scored off a rebound of a shot by Daniel Sprong to restore Washington’s two-goal edge, 4-2, at 8:16.
With the Capitals on a two-man advantage, DeSmith lobbed a clearing pass into the neutral zone, springing Blueger on a breakaway. Blueger put the puck under Vanecek’s pads at 15:07 to make it 4-3. The Penguins tied it on Malkin’s slapshot from the top of the right circle during a power play at 17:15.


Hughes’ three points push 
Devils past Rangers
Jack Hughes scored twice and added an assist as the visiting New Jersey Devils held on for a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Tuesday night. Hughes continued his quick start by being involved in each of New Jersey’s three goals in the second period. 
The 2019 No. 1 overall draft pick recorded his first career two-goal game and second career three-point game, giving him six points through the first three games after he finished with 21 points in 61 games as a rookie last season.
Travis Zajac scored 32 seconds in and Miles Wood scored for the third straight game, converting on a late-second-period power play, as the Devils won their second straight. Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad scored power-play goals in the second period for the Rangers, who were coming off a dominant 5-0 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday. Filip Chytil scored New York’s other goal in the third period.
New Jersey’s Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 47 shots, including 20 in the second period when the teams combined for 32 shots on goal. He also made 20 saves in the third, including several point-blank stops in the final 10 minutes when the Rangers were often in the offensive zone. New York’s Alexandar Georgiev allowed four goals on 20 shots after posting a 23-save shutout Saturday. Igor Shesterkin replaced him in the third period and stopped all eight shots he faced.
Hughes produced a dynamic performance after Kreider’s pass intended for Zibanejad banked off the skate of New Jersey defenseman Ryan Murray 2:50 into the second to forge a 1-1 tie.
He snapped the 1-1 tie 4:13 into the second by crashing the net and backhanding a rebound past Georgiev. 
A little over four minutes later, Hughes blocked a pass by Rangers defenseman Jacob Trouba at the blue line, raced past New York’s Ryan Lindgren and finished off a breakaway with another backhander. 
After the Rangers got within 3-2 on Zibanejad’s goal with 7:51 remaining in the second, Hughes made a crisp cross-ice pass to Wood, who banked the puck off his skate into the vacated right side of the net.
Hughes nearly got a fourth point but P.K. Subban’s apparent goal with 2:23 remaining was overturned after the Rangers successfully challenged for an offside call on Kyle Palmieri.