The 37-year-old Russian scored the already empty goal of the “knights” at the end of the match, establishing the final score. This put Evgeniy in sole possession of 20th place for empty-net goals in NHL history. Malkin now has 24 such goals. Today he overtook another Russian, Ilya Kovalchuk, in this indicator. Note that the record for goals in an empty net belongs to two hockey players at once: Canadian Wayne Gretzky and Russian Alexander Ovechkin (56).
Evgeni Malkin played 17 games in the current NHL regular season and scored 18 points for his performance – 9 goals and 9 assists. “Pittsburgh” with 18 points after 17 matches occupies 10th place in the Eastern Conference.
Source: Sport
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