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Penguins allow late power play goal

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Lehkonen scores twice, Avalanche top Penguins for 3rd straight win
Mittelstadt scores go-ahead goal on a power play with 4:09 remaining as Avs beat Penguins 4-1
Scott Wedgewood, late power-play goal propel Avalanche past Penguins
Avalanche's Artturi Lehkonen: Scores twice Tuesday
The winger opened the scoring at 6:36 of the second period and also put away one of the Avalanche's two empty-netters. Lehkonen is now at 26 goals, 11 assists, 113 shots on net and a plus-26 rating through 50 appearances.
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Avalanche Use Three-Goal Third Period to Defeat Penguins 4-1
Artturi Lehkonen scored twice and Scott Wedgewood made 32 saves in the Avalanche's 4-1 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins at Ball Arena on Tuesday. Casey Mittelstadt scored the game-winning goal and Jack Drury added a tally for Colorado while Nathan MacKinnon posted a pair of assists to reach 70 helpers on the season.
Colorado takes on San Jose after Lehkonen’s 2-goal showing
The Colorado Avalanche host the San Jose Sharks after Artturi Lehkonen's two-goal game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Avalanche's 4-1 win.
Penguins Fall To Avalanche, 4-1, In Final Game Before Trade Deadline
It feels like the Pittsburgh Penguins deserved a much better fate than their 4-1 loss to the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.
Third-period surge propels Avalanche past Penguins
Artturi Lehkonen scored two goals, Casey Mittelstadt netted the tiebreaking tally with 4:09 to go and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Tuesday in Denver.
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Top-5 : A nearly perfect evening for CH even though it didn’t play
There was plenty of action in the NHL last night. And that, even though the Canadiens didn’t have a game on the schedule. Let’s see what happened around the league: Tuesday’s action saw the top three players in the Art Ross Trophy race,
Avalanche's Cale Makar: Garners assist in win
Makar registered an assist and two shots on goal in Tuesday's 4-1 win over the Penguins. Makar's assist streak is up to four games, and he has a total of five helpers in that span. He contributed on Artturi Lehkonen's opening tally in the second period of this contest.