Penguins combine for shutout to end Ducks 6-game winning streak

ANAHEIM -- Tristan Jarry and Magnus Hellberg combined for 32 saves, and the Pittsburgh Penguins ended the Anaheim Ducks’ six-game winning streak with a 2-0 victory at Honda Center on Tuesday.

Jarry made 21 saves and did not return after leaving with 1:36 remaining in the second period after getting hit in the face with a shot from Anaheim forward Ryan Strome. Jarry had just collided with Ducks forward Adam Henrique above the crease, jarring his mask loose.

Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said after the game that Jarry was still being evaluated.

Hellberg made 11 saves in the third period, and Radim Zohorna and Sidney Crosby scored for the Penguins (5-6-0), who have won two in a row. It was the fifth shared shutout in the regular season in team history.

"There's always pressure on this level, whether you go in when your team is down a couple goals or whether it goes like this," Hellberg said. "I just have to try and come up big for the team, and I thought they did a really good job in front of me communicating and letting me see the puck."

John Gibson made 34 saves for Anaheim (7-5-0), which went 0-for-3 on the power play.

"We weren't dictating a lot," Ducks coach Greg Cronin said. "When we're on our game, we're hunting pucks and we're getting some offensive-zone time. Give Pittsburgh credit, they played a good defensive game. They took a lot of our shooting lanes away to the net. They were tight on our points and closed gaps quickly."

Zohorna gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead at 12:34 of the first period. Lars Eller took a wrist shot from the right circle that hit the skate of Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler and slid below the goal line.

Gibson slid over to protect the right post just as Zohorna flipped the puck toward the crease, but the puck went under Gibson's left pad and banked off his right one, causing the puck to redirect across the goal line.

"The main thing was that the first part wasn't our best, but we didn't beat ourselves." Crosby said. "That's what good teams do and, hopefully, we can build off this and keep going."

Gibson made a glove save on Evgeni Malkin's slap shot off a 2-on-1 break during a delayed penalty midway through the second period. The ensuing power play lasted just 15 seconds before Malkin was called for tripping Jackson LaCombe in the offensive zone.

The Penguins went back on the power play and Ducks forward Brett Leason had a short-handed breakaway, but shot over the net.

"Playing in their end allowed us to defend a little better," Crosby said. "When you get caught out there, it's harder to defend and you make mistakes, but we did a lot better job in the second and third."

The Ducks were unable to rally for the victory after trailing in the third period, something they had accomplished in five of their previous six games of the winning streak.

“It was a great crowd," Cronin said. "They were just begging for something good to happen. We had the energy at the end there. You could see them getting on their feet.”

Anaheim outshot the Penguins 7-1 over the final 10:15, but couldn't get one past Hellberg.

"It's a good win for our team in a low-scoring game like that," Sullivan said. "To be able to close it out against a team that's beat a lot of good teams lately."

Noel Acciari appeared to score into an empty net with 56 seconds left, but after video review it was determined Pittsburgh was offsides prior to the goal.

Crosby scored into an empty net with 20 seconds left for the 2-0 final.

"What I loved about our third period is I just thought we competed hard," Sullivan said. "I thought we defended well, we had numbers back and we were on the puck, made good decisions with the puck in the critical areas of the rink and we dug in."

NOTES: The Penguins have three shutouts in the first 11 games, the second-fewest to reach that mark in team history. They had three shutouts in the first 10 games in 2014-15. … Crosby extended his point streak to six games (three goals, four assists). He has 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in his past 16 games against Anaheim.