Penguins Rout Canucks 5-1

The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-1, snapping Vancouver’s three-game winning streak. Arturs Silovs recovered after allowing the opening shot and then stopped the next 23 shots against his former team as Pittsburgh’s second-period surge put the game out of reach. Tommy Novak scored his first goal as a Penguin on the power play and Sidney Crosby added a wrist shot that gave Pittsburgh the lead and pushed Crosby to a franchise-leading 1,896 combined regular-season and playoff points. Vancouver had arrived in Pittsburgh after a productive road trip that included wins at Dallas and Chicago and a 4-3 victory in Washington, but the Canucks were undone by choppy play, defensive lapses and an ineffective power play that Pittsburgh exploited.