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Crosby scores his 600th NHL goal, Penguins lose to Utah Hockey Club

Crosby scores his 600th NHL goal, Penguins lose to Utah Hockey Club

Crosby is the 21st player to reach the milestone and the second active player to do so, joining Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin (868).

Dylan Guenther had two goals and an assist, Clayton Keller had three assists and Logan Cooley, Nick Schmaltz and Michael Carcone each had two assists for Utah (8-9-3), which had been outscored 11-4 in its previous three sports losses . Karel Vejmelka made 27 saves.

Alex Nedeljkovic made 24 saves for Pittsburgh (7-12-4), which has lost three in a row. The Penguins lost 4-1 to the Winnipeg Jets on Friday.

Jack McBain put Utah ahead 1-0 at 8:54 of the first period with a wrist shot to the right post after a pass from behind the net by Guenther.

Mikhail Sergachev made it 2-0 at 13:07, receiving a pass from Keller, who shot his wrist shot through traffic from high in the penalty area.

Schmaltz appeared to extend the lead at 18:27 with his first goal of the season, but it was overturned when the Penguins challenged and Barrett Hayton was determined to have interfered with Nedeljkovic.

Crosby made it 2-1 on a 5-on-3 power play at 3:11 of the second period, scoring his eighth goal of the season with a one-timer to the right of the net set up by Erik Karlsson. He had scored one goal in the previous eight matches and had not had a single shot on goal in the previous two matches.

Nick Bjugstad then made it 3-1 on the power play at 10:37 when Michael Kesselring hit a shot in the frame.

Guenther made it 4-1 on another power play at 6:38 of the third quarter, poking the puck into the penalty area on a shot by Schmaltz.

Alexander Kerfoot made it 5-1 at 7:25 when he tipped a shot by Maveric Lamoureux, and Guenther scored his second power-play goal at 15:59 to make it 6-1.