Athletistic / Hockey. The Pittsburgh Penguins lost to the Arizona Coyotes (2:5) in an NHL regular season away game. Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin took an active part in the match.
The 37-year-old Russian scored an assist in the match against Arizona. This helped him rise to 29th place on the NHL’s all-time assists list (both regular season and playoff games are taken into account). Malkin currently has 894 assists in the North American League. In this indicator he was equal to the legendary Alex Delvecchio.
Note that in this match Malkin participated in a curious own goal against Pittsburgh.
This season, Evgeni Malkin played 44 games in the NHL regular season and scored 38 (15+23) points using the goal+pass system.
Source: Sport
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