Colorado beat Pittsburgh in the NHL match

Hockey club (HC) Colorado defeated Pittsburgh 5-2 in the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season match on October 17 at their home arena. Russian striker Evgeni Malkin scored his fourth goal this season.

Arturi Lehkonen scored a double for the winners, while Gabriel Landeskug, T.J. Hughes and Nathan MacKinnon also scored. Besides Malkin, Brian Rust scored the goal for Pittsburgh. Both of the team's goals were scored in the ninth minute of the match.

Malkin now has four goals and two assists in seven games this season. Forwards Fedor Svechkov from Colorado and Andrey Kuzmenko from Pittsburgh scored no points. Colorado is in second place in the Central Division with 11 points from eight games. Pittsburgh is on the sixth line of the Metropolitan Division with seven points after eight meetings.

In the next match, Pittsburgh will play away from Vegas on the night of October 18, Moscow time, and Colorado will face Philadelphia on the night of October 20.

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HC Minnesota Wild lost to HC Winnipeg Jets on October 14 in an away match of the NHL regular season with a score of 2:5, however, its striker Kirill Kaprizov, who owns both of the team's goals, scored during the game. The compatriot scored in the ninth and 19th minutes. Cole Perfetti scored a double for Winnipeg (in the 1st and 36th minutes), Mark Scheifli (17th), Kyle Connor (44th) and Cole Koepke (54th) scored another goal each.