Pittsburgh Penguins vs Columbus Blue Jackets

Date
Wed 12th April 2017 (UTC)
Wed 12th April 2017 (Local)

Timestamp
2017-04-12T00:00:00

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00:00:00 UTC

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League
NHL

Season
2016-2017

Round
160

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Fleury withstood an early push by the Blue Jackets and stopped 31 shots in all as the Penguins opened their Stanley Cup title defense with a 3-1 victory. Game 2 is Friday night in Pittsburgh.
The Blue Jackets peppered Fleury during a one-sided first period, throwing 16 shots his way while Fleury's teammates mustered just three at the other end of the ice. Fleury stopped them all, and when Pittsburgh finally got it going in the second period, the Blue Jackets couldn't keep pace.
Phil Kessel, Nick Bonino and Bryan Rust scored in the second, with Evgeni Malkin assisting on Rust and Kessel's goals in his first game back after missing the final three weeks of the regular season with an upper-body injury. It was a surge reminiscent of Pittsburgh's sprint to a fourth Cup last spring. Yet it was a push made possible only by Fleury's hot start.