Pittsburgh Penguins rookies Bryan Rust and Brian Dumoulin scored their first NHL goals Monday night in the Penguins 4-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The pair did something that hadn’t been seen in Pittsburgh colors since the 2006-07 season.
#Penguins have 2 players score their first NHL goal in the same game for the first time since Oct 12, 2006 (Letang & J.Staal)
— Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) December 16, 2014
Rust, Pittsburgh’s 2010 third-round selection (80th overall), gave the Penguins a 2-1 lead 2:55 into the second.
Dumoulin, originally a 2009 second-round pick of the Carolina Hurricanes (51st overall) made it 4-1 at 7:47 of the third period.