Friday presents a pretty big moment in the young life of 21-year-old PO Joseph.
The Penguins defensive prospect made his NHL debut.
“Today and yesterday I felt like my nerve level was pretty high,” Joseph said via a video conference. ‘But once the game starts, it’s hockey. I play this sport forever. I just told myself to enjoy the first one because it only comes once. ”
Something else happened for the first time.
Goal scorer Tristan Jarry has won this season.
With 31 shots on 34 shots in regulation and overtime, Jarry also stopped two of the three shots he saw in a shootout, leading his team to a 4-3 win against the New York Rangers.
Jarry bounced back after a rough start to the season in which he conceded nine goals on 34 shots in just two games, each lost to Philadelphia last week.
This led to coaches turning to consecutive goalkeeper Casey DeSmith for two consecutive games, while Jarry refined his game with goalkeeping coach Mike Buckley during the week.
“It was just to be the basics for me again,” Jarry said. “I wanted to get better in practice every day and then just work on things to improve my game, to make sure I stay sharp and better tonight than in the previous two games.”
“I thought he had a great game tonight,” coach Mike Sullivan said. “He made very timely savings for us. He was great in the shootout. It was an opportunity for him to master just a few good practices and just concentrate on them. The basics and the kind of return to the basics. This is what we tried to achieve this week, and I thought he was responding really well. He had a good game tonight. ”
After Penguins forward Bryan Rust opened the scoring with his first goal 10:29 as regulation, the Rangers responded with three consecutive goals in the second period over a team of 3:01.
Rangers forward Filip Chytil converted a defensive zone turnover by Penguins defender Brian Dumoulin into his second goal at 2:41.
This was followed by a power play by defender Adam Fox, his first, at 5:18.
After Kaapo Kakko collected the lead at 5:42 in a rebound, Sullivan requested a time-out to organize his group.
“I was definitely trying to elicit a certain response,” Sullivan said. “I wish we had a little push back.”
The Penguins pushed back and started with their own power play goal, albeit with a little help from the Rangers, at 16:56 of the second. When he took a pass low on the left wing, Penguins forward Jared McCann tried to force a pass through the fold, but was blocked by Rangers defender Ryan Lindgren, who accidentally blocked it with his left glove in the net and McCann scored his first goal of the season.
Joseph then became involved in the score at 11:23 of the third period. With a pass on the left, Joseph blows a one-time player who strikes from the end plank and moves right off the cage, where Teddy Blueger clears the rebound for his second goal of the season and Joseph’s first career point, an assist.
In the shootout, the successful efforts of forward Jake Guentzel and defender Kris Letang achieved the victory.
After stopping Rangers forward Mike Zibanejad, Jarry allowed forward Artemi Panarin to score, and Tony DeAngelo, the defender, refused.
This led to a slight punch by Jarry as his teammates climbed off the bench to celebrate his first 2020-21 victory.
“Tristan works hard every day,” McCann said. “He’s just playing his game. He is a man we can really stand for and know he will make it for us. ‘
Seth Rorabaugh is a staff writer for Tribune-Review. You can contact Seth by email at [email protected] or via Twitter .
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