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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins gained a measure of revenge against a rival that ended their season last spring.Kris Letang scored his second goal 1:20 into overtime and the Penguins opened theseason with a 7-6 victory over the Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals on Thursday night.“I think we wanted to respond to last season http://www.officialblues.com/authentic-adidas-dmitrij-jaskin-jersey ,” Letang said. “I don’t think it mattered if it was (Washington) or another team.”Letang beat goalie Braden Holtby with a slap shot from the point on a power play. Letang finished with three points, tying Hall of Famer Paul Coffey for the most by a defenseman in team history with 440.“I always looked up to him,” Letang said. “It’s pretty cool to have your name next to his.”Penguins coach Mike Sullivan believes the three-point opener will give Letang confidence moving forward.“I thought he had a really solid night,” Sullivan said. “He plays big minutes and in all of the situations for us. I’m happy for him because I know how hard he works.”Jake Guentzel also scored twice, Evgeni Malkin had a goal and two assists, and Derick Brassard and Jamie Oleksiak added goals in Pittsburgh’s opener. Matt Murray made 30 saves.T.J. Oshie scored twice for Stanley Cup champion Washington, coming off a 7-0 home victory over Boston on Wednesday night in the Capitals’ opener.Alex Ovechkin had his second of the season and 609th overall, passing Dino Ciccarelli for 18th on the NHL list. Brooks Orpik scored his first goal in 182 regular-season games. Jakub Vrana and John Carlson also scored. Holtby made 34 saves.The Capitals met the Penguins for the first time since eliminating Pittsburgh in six games during the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The winner of Pittsburgh and Washington’s second- round series the past three playoffs has gone on to win the Stanley Cup, including the Capitals’ first-ever championship last season. During the previous three seasons Youth Jaden Schwartz Jersey , the Penguins and Capitals met 32 times in the regular season and playoffs with 16 of those 32 games decided by one goal.The Capitals return 20 of 22 players who won the Stanley Cup, while Pittsburgh seeks its third championship in four seasons with a lineup largely unchanged from last season.“Both of these teams have so much firepower throughout the whole lineup,” Oshie said. “When you get a sloppy game, guys making misreads defensively, turning the puck over at the wrong time, each team is going to make you pay.”Malkin scored 2:45 into the third period, putting Pittsburgh ahead by two, but Oshie tied it at 6 with goals 21 seconds apart.“It was not a pretty game,” Letang said. “It was ugly. It was that type of game.”Five of the first seven shots were goals as the Capitals held a 3-2 lead eight minutes into the game.Both teams scored in the first four minutes of the second Jake Allen Jersey , but Pittsburgh closed the period with goals from Guentzel and Brassard scored less than two minutes apart, giving the Penguins a one-goal lead going into the third.“It was hard to get momentum in this game,” Letang said. “The first one is never pretty. We got it out of the way and obviously it’s good that we got the two points.”NOTES: This is the second time in the past three years Pittsburgh opened its season with Washington. Pittsburgh is 6-0 against Washington in season openers. … D Jack Johnson played his first game for Pittsburgh after signing as a free agent for five years and $16.25 million on July 1. .. Ovechkin is one goal behind Bobby Hull for 17th. … Orpik’s last regular-season goal came Feb. 26, 2016, against Minnesota.UP NEXTCapitals: Host Vegas on Wednesday night.Penguins: Host Montreal on Saturday night. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Marc-Andre Fleury turned 34 this week and was happy to be asked after Thursday night’s win whether he’s getting quicker with age.“Thank you, I’ll take that,” the Vegas goaltender said. “They keep calling me ‘old man.’ I don’t know, I just try to get in front of the puck as quick as I can.”Fleury made 33 saves and Max Pacioretty scored twice to lead the Golden Knights past the struggling Vancouver Canucks 4-3 for their fifth straight victory.William Karlsson’s short-handed goal with 6:25 remaining snapped a 3-all tie. William Carrier also scored for Vegas.“That never-quit attitude has been there for our team Joel Edmundson Jersey , has been there during this streak, and we’ve seen how well we can play when we play the right way,” Pacioretty said.The former Montreal Canadiens captain has eight goals in his last seven games.“It’s been a lot of fun but we have to keep going,” he said.Brock Boeser had two goals for Vancouver, which has lost 10 of 11, and defenseman Alex Edler scored his first of the season. Jacob Markstrom stopped 27 shots.“You’re playing a team that went to the Stanley Cup finals last year. I thought that was a very well-played game by our team and a lot of compete,” Canucks coach Travis Green said.“It’s disheartening to lose right now, but I know when we go back and watch the tape, that’s one of the games that you played well and lost.”Vegas had yet to register a single shot when the Canucks opened the scoring nearly 10 minutes in.Vancouver rookie Elias Pettersson picked the pocket of Vegas defenseman Nate Schmidt in front of the Golden Knights net Vladimir Tarasenko Jersey , then sent a no-look pass to Boeser from his knees.Boeser got the puck in the slot and hammered a quick wrist shot past Fleury.“I don’t know. It’s tremendous,” Boeser said, trailing off. “He told me on the bench that he heard me yelling, he didn’t know where I was. It’s a great play. I’m not surprised, though.”Pettersson said he hadn’t heard his teammate calling and that the pass was “a good guess.”“I tried to go around the defender. I got tripped. Then I had a feeling that one of my teammates would be around that area so I just gave it a shot and it just went right on the tape,” he said.The 20-year-old has 22 points in his first 22 NHL games. But his said this one was frustrating because the Canucks did enough to win.“Of course I think we played really well,” Pettersson said. “Sometimes you lose games when you should have won and sometimes it’s the vice versa. I think we played one of our better games this year.”The Golden Knights tied it before the end of the first period following a flurry in front of the Canucks net. Markstrom made a save but couldn’t smother the rebound, and the puck popped off Carrier’s skate and in.Pacioretty scored a power-play goal early in the second after Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher was called for high-sticking. He put another past Markstrom 1:13 into the third, rocketing a one-timer over the goalie’s shoulder.Edler brought the Canucks within one less than a minute later Alex Killorn Jersey Kids , putting in a rebound of Bo Horvat’s shot for his first goal this season.Boeser knotted the score again midway through the third, sneaking around the side of the Vegas net and putting in a wrister past Fleury. The right wing’s sixth goal came after he missed 11 games this month with a lower-body injury.Karlsson netted the winner after Reilly Smith found him down low on a Canucks power play.“We’ve been scoring a lot of goals and that helps a lot, always,” Fleury said. “I think we have been playing consistently throughout the game, and game to game. I think we have been better at it and it’s been paying off.”NOTES: The injury-riddled Canucks could be down two more players. Left wing Antoine Roussel was scratched from the lineup shortly before the game with an upper-body injury, Green said. Vancouver defenseman Alex Edler went down hard late in the game after being hit by Vegas right wing Ryan Reaves. Green said after the game that he’s concerned about Edler.UP NEXTGolden Knights: Play at Edmonton on Saturday night.Canucks: Continue their five-game homestand Saturday afternoon against Dallas.