Penguins Win 3-2, Crosby's Goal Drought Continues

The Pittsburgh Penguins have been decimated by injuries at times this season, missing 5 of their 6 regular defensemen for a while, but are still finding ways to win games. In the meantime, Pens captain Sidney Crosby continues experiencing the worst goalscoring drought of his career, having one goal in his last 11 games. Crosby scored 3 goals back on October 28th, but has only one since then, a game versus the Boston Bruins a week ago. During those 11 games Crosby has been held without a point 6 times, but does have 7 assists to go along with that goal.

In this game, the Pens built up a 3-0 lead on goals by Martin Skoula, and Evgeni Malkin. Skoula rarely scores and his 2 goals was a career high for the defenseman who has stepped up his game during the time Pittsburgh has been without their usual core of defenders. Malkin beat Atlanta Thrashers netminder Johan Hedberg at 11:46 of the 2nd which proved to be the game winner.

In the 3rd, Atlanta's Chris Thorburn scored a shorthanded goal on Marc-Andre Fleury and Maxim Afinogenov got the Thrashers to within one goal with about 18 seconds left, but it was too little too late.