Patrick Kane had his second hat trick in three games, Scott Darling made 36 saves and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1 on Wednesday night for their fifth straight victory and 10th in 11 games. Richard Panik also scored to help Chicago pull within three points of first-place Minnesota in the Central Division and Western Conference.
Category: Chris Kunitz
Sidney Crosby joins NHL’s 1,000-point club
The Pittsburgh Penguins star became the 86th player in league history to reach 1,000 career points when he assisted on Chris Kunitz’s goal 6:28 into the first period on Thursday night against Winnipeg. Crosby’s helper gave him 632 assists to go with 368 goals.
Pa. crime photos of the week: Woman’s heroin death after 8 days’ clean; more
Haley Leight, 20, of Butler, Pa., who was battling heroin, had achieved eight days clean, and she attended a Narcotics Anonymous meeting just the day before a tragic relapse that would cost her her life. It was a bizarre end for Patrick J. Harper, a 52-year-old engineer from western Pennsylvania who was facing multiple child pornography charges.
Ex-Nanny for Penguins Player in Pennsylvania Gets 5-Year Federal Sentence
The former nanny of Pittsburgh Penguins player Chris Kunitz was sentenced Tuesday to five years in federal prison for setting fire to her rental residence and then filing fraudulent insurance claims for the contents. The public defender for Andrea Forsythe, 28, unsuccessfully sought a term running concurrently to one she’ll receive next month for thefts from the Penguins player and other people for whom she worked as a nanny.