Athletistic / Hockey. The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets (5:3) last night in an NHL regular season home game. Forward Evgeni Malkin has greatly contributed to the Penguins’ success.
The 37-year-old Russian scored 2 (1+1) points for his performance. Evgeniy now has 489 goals in his NHL career. He moved closer to the top 50 snipers in NHL history. Malkin now occupies 51st place in this ranking, but is only one goal behind Norm Ullman, who is 50th.
In 60 matches this season, Evgeni Malkin has scored 48 (18+30) points using the goal+pass system. During his career in the North American League, the Metallurg Magnitogorsk graduate scored 1277 (489+788) effective actions.
Source: Sport
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