VANCOUVER www.officialblues.com , British Columbia (AP) ¡ª Casey DeSmith wanted another crack at the Vancouver Canucks, and he didn¡¯t waste it.The backup goalie stopped 29 shots for his second career shutout, and the Pittsburgh Penguins got two goals apiece from Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin in beating the Canucks 5-0 on Saturday night.DeSmith lost the previous matchup between the teams Oct. 16 when Brock Boeser scored 34 seconds into overtime.¡°I don¡¯t like losing and the way we lost, I felt the overtime goal I could have had, so that has kind of been on my mind since the last time and that was actually the last game I played,¡± DeSmith said. ¡°It just so happened my next game was against these guys and that worked out well.¡±He got the nod over Matt Murray in the final game of Pittsburgh¡¯s four-game trip to Canada and helped his team complete a sweep. The Penguins also won at Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary.DeSmith¡¯s previous shutout came on April 26 against Ottawa.Phil Kessel also scored for Pittsburgh, which has just one loss in regulation this season.¡°They¡¯ve got some world-class players that can score if you give them the chance,¡± Canucks coach Travis Green said.Jacob Markstrom stopped 30 shots for Vancouver. He kept the Canucks in the game with several clutch saves, including in the first period when he sprawled to turn away a rocket from Malkin with his left skate.Still, the goaltender wasn¡¯t happy with his performance.¡°No, 5-0 on the board, you can¡¯t be happy,¡± Markstrom said. ¡°It¡¯s a 60-minute game. You¡¯ve got to play good all 60.¡±Pittsburgh opened the scoring midway through the second period St. Louis Blues T-Shirts Authentic , following a patient move by Olli Maatta. The defenseman had been waiting for a chance at the point and fired a shot that bounced off Markstrom¡¯s pads. Kessel sneaked around the back of the net and found the rebound, banging it in for his seventh goal of the season, which leads the Penguins.Kessel played in his 255th consecutive game for Pittsburgh, surpassing Malkin for the franchise record.Crosby scored later in the period, collecting the puck in front and sending a backhand past Markstrom.Malkin¡¯s goals came 59 seconds apart in the third. The Russian center also assisted on Kessel¡¯s goal, and said the two have good chemistry.¡°When Phil plays good, I am playing good. When he is feeling it, I feel it, too. When he is lazy I am like, I can¡¯t do it myself,¡± Malkin said.Malkin¡¯s first goal came off a saucer pass from Daniel Sprong that he quickly buried in the side of the net. Less than a minute later, Malkin again found the puck in front and sliced it in past Markstrom. He has four goals and 11 assists in his last seven games.Crosby capped the scoring with just more than two minutes left, firing in a shot from the side of the net. The Penguins¡¯ captain has five goals and three assists during a four-game scoring streak.NOTES: Boeser and 19-year-old rookie center Elias Pettersson returned from injuries for Vancouver. Boeser had missed two games with a groin injury, while Pettersson had been sidelined with a concussion since Oct. 13. Boeser has six points in 10 games St. Louis Blues Hoodies Authentic , and Pettersson registered five goals and three assists in his first five NHL outings. Green had the pair skating together on a line with Nikolay Goldobin for much of the game. The trio combined for six shots. ¡°I thought we came out fast and spent a lot of time in their zone,¡± Green said. ¡°But at the end of the day, you¡¯ve got to find a way to put a puck in the back of the net.¡±UP NEXTPenguins: Host the New York Islanders on Tuesday.Canucks: Continue their four-game homestand Monday against Minnesota. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) ¡ª Eric Staal had already seen his former teammate rob him of a goal once. When he got another chance, he made sure it didn¡¯t happen again.Staal and Mikael Grandlund scored and Devan Dubnyk stopped 27 of 28 shots to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.Brendan Perlini scored and Darcy Kuemper stopped 30 shots in his season debut for Arizona. Kuemper was making his first appearance against the franchise that drafted him in 2009. He spent parts of five seasons in Minnesota before leaving as a free agent in 2017.Kuemper made the save of the game against Staal midway through the second period to keep the game tied 1-1. Minnesota¡¯s Eric Fehr came out of the penalty box to trigger a 3-on-1 for the Wild. Staal skated down the slot and took a pass from Fehr with seemingly half the net to shoot at, but a sprawling Kuemper made a glove save.¡°That¡¯s frustrating,¡± said Stahl, who scored 42 goals last season. ¡°I¡¯ll give him some kudos. It was a great save, but I¡¯ve got to bury those.¡±Early in the third period, that¡¯s exactly what he did. After Kuemper stopped Ryan Suter¡¯s initial shot, Jason Zucker tapped it across the crease to Staal, who hit the back of the net for his second goal of the season.¡°I went over to play the shot and (Zucker) made a nice play back against the grain and I couldn¡¯t get there,¡± Kuemper said.The Coyotes entered the night having scored just two goals in four games, including three shutout losses. But they opened the scoring midway through the first period when Perlini scored his first of the season on the power play.With Greg Pateryn in the box for hooking St. Louis Blues Hats Authentic , Perlini took a pass below the right circle, walked in on Dubnyk and flicked the puck over the goalie¡¯s left shoulder.The Coyotes kept up the pressure as they have all season, putting at least 30 shots on goal for the fifth time in five games. But Dubnyk turned aside shot after shot the rest of the way.¡°I thought we had our chances,¡± Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. ¡°When you don¡¯t score, everything is magnified. That¡¯s the problem.¡±The Wild tied it early in the second on Granlund¡¯s second goal of the season. Granlund gathered a pass from Jared Spurgeon near the blue line, skated into the high slot and fired a wrist shot that appeared to fool Kuemper, beating him on the glove side.Coming on the heels of a 4-2 loss at Nashville on Monday, Staal said the win was especially gratifying, even this early in the season.¡°Guys know what¡¯s at stake and what we need to do to win. We needed to get this one,¡± he said. ¡°We knew it. After last night, we were obviously happy with the way we competed but at the end of the day, it¡¯s about results and we didn¡¯t get the result last night. So we needed to get today, and we gutted it out.¡±NOTES: Wild captain Mikko Koivu missed the game to attend the birth of his third child. . Minnesota F Matt Hendricks crawled off the ice and limped to the locker room in the last minute of the first period. He did not return. . F Josh Archibald played his first game of the season for Arizona. He missed the previous four games with a lower-body injury.UP NEXTCoyotes: Arizona travels to Chicago to face the Blackhawks on Thursday night.Wild: Minnesota visits Dallas on Friday.