Nedeljkovic stopped 27 of 29 shots in Wednesday's 3-2 overtime win over Utah. Nedeljkovic picked up his third win in five outings. He did a good job to keep the game close, with the Penguins bouncing back from a pair of one-goal deficits before Sidney Crosby finished off the win with a backhand shot in overtime.
SALT LAKE CITY — Sidney Crosby scored at 3:54 of overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 on Wednesday night. Marcus Pettersson and Erik Karlsson scored in regulation as Pittsburgh snapped a three-game losing streak. Alex Nedeljkovic made 27 saves.
Nedeljkovic is set to start on the road against Utah on Wednesday, per Penguins play-by-play announcer Josh Getzoff. Nedeljkovic has a 9-9-4 record, 3.21 GAA and .894 save percentage in 23 appearances in 2024-25.
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their first game in Salt Lake City, with Sidney Crosby scoring an overtime winner against the Utah Hockey Club.
Sidney Crosby scored with 1:06 left in overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 at Delta Center on Wednesday. It was Crosby’s 95th career
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ longest road trip since 1997 is now officially in the books. Thanks in large part to the efforts of two players who carried the way throughout the 14-day journey, the Penguins
In Pittsburgh's first trip to Utah, the captain gave the crowd something to remember with a patented backhand goal.
By now, the Vancouver Canucks should have figured out a way to mitigate the public damage from all the JT Miller/Elias Pettersson rumours. Instead, the owner poured the maximum amount of gasoline onto the fire. At this point, there is no scenario where both players finish the season in Vancouver.
Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson had a rough night and more than a few decisions that would make one kindly question his thought process. And then Karlsson finished his own rush by wiring a wrist shot over Utah Hockey Club goalie Connor Ingram to tie the game 2-2 in the third
The Pittsburgh Penguins (20-24-8) have one more chance to salvage a good feeling from this extended seven-game road trip that seemingly began a lifetime ago with a joyous victory over the Buffalo Sabres and Alex Nedeljkovic’s goalie goal.
SALT LAKE CITY – Sidney Crosby scored with 1:06 left in overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 at Delta Center on Wednesday.
SALT LAKE CITY — Sidney Crosby scored at 3:54 of overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Utah Hockey Club 3-2 on Wednesday night.Marcus Pettersson and Erik Karlsson scored in regulation as Pittsburgh snapped a three-game losing streak. Alex Nedeljkovic made 27 saves.Mikhail Sergachev and Michael Carcone scored for Utah, and Connor Ingram had 25 saves.In the extra period, Crosby got a drop pass from Cody Glass at the bottom of the left circle, skated across the front of the goal and put a backhander over Ingram’s left pad.Sergachev, back in Utah’s lineup after missing five games with an upper-body injury, opened the scoring with a power-play goal with 5:09 left in the first period.Pettersson tied it at 6:40 of the second, before Carcone put Utah back ahead less than 2 minutes later.Karlsson tied it at 6:17 of the third.TakeawaysUtah: Utah remained in sixth place in the Central Division, just one point behind St. Louis.Pittsburgh: The Penguins finished 3-4-0 on a seven-game trip.Key momentKarlsson picked up a loose puck at the blue line as Utah was trying to clear it, and skated in on the right side and beat Ingram up high to tie the score in the third period.Key statThe Penguins improved to 9-17-5 when giving up the first goal.Up NextUtah hosts Columbus on Friday, and Penguins host Nashville on Saturday.