PITTSBURGH (AP) ¡ª for his career-best scoring run. He just wants to keep playing the same way.Rust scored two more goals to help the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Thursday night.¡°Sometimes that¡¯s how hockey goes Evgenii Dadonov Jersey Kids ,¡± Rust said. ¡°It just wants to make me shoot the puck more, I guess.¡±Rust has at least one goal in five of his last six games, including the game-winner in Wednesday night¡¯s 2-1 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Washington Capitals on the road.He has eight goals and nine points in his last six games after collecting one goal and seven points in his first 29 games.¡°It¡¯s going in for him and we¡¯re thrilled for him,¡± Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. ¡°I think he¡¯s confident now and I think he has a little bit of pressure off of him. It¡¯s not like he wasn¡¯t getting scoring chances in the first part of the season. He was. The puck just didn¡¯t seem to go in the net for him and now it is.¡±Rust put Pittsburgh ahead to stay when he scored his ninth of the season 8:12 into the third period.Pittsburgh¡¯s Jake Guentzel picked off a Greg Pateryn pass behind the net, and centered to the slot where Rust slipped a shot between Devan Dubnyk¡¯s pads.Pittsburgh has won four of five games and seven of 10 overall. The Penguins have earned points in eight of their last 10 games and 13 of the last 17 following a difficult November run in which they won just one of 10 games.¡°It¡¯s nice to string a few wins in a row against some pretty good teams,¡± Sullivan said. ¡°Every point we get in the standings is important and we¡¯re slowly but surely climbing. We¡¯re becoming harder to play against.¡±Casey DeSmith stopped 40 shots for his eighth win in 12 home starts. DeSmith has started nine of the last 11 games for Pittsburgh.Jordan Greenway scored his sixth for the Wild, who have dropped three straight and five of seven. Dubnyk made 35 saves.¡°It¡¯s disappointing,¡± Dubnyk said. ¡°We were in a really good spot going into the third period, and playing good hockey. So you want to find a way to win those games.¡±Greenway opened the scoring 7:13 into the first when he converted a wrist shot from inside the left circle. But Rust answered for Pittsburgh, extending his goal streak to a career-best four games.Dubnyk left his crease Youth Jamie McGinn Jersey , but misplayed a puck behind the net to Guentzel, who quickly centered to Rust for the goal into an empty net.¡°The first one, it doesn¡¯t get much easier than that, and the second one, I came screaming down the middle and (Guentzel) found me,¡± Rust said.NOTES: Dominik Simon returned to the Penguins¡¯ lineup after missing eight games with a lower-body injury. Garrett Wilson was sent to the team¡¯s minor league affiliate in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. ¡­ Wild D Matt Dumba missed his second straight game with an upper-body injury. ¡­ Penguins D Jamie Oleksiak was sidelined by a concussion. ¡­ Pateryn played in his 200th career game.UP NEXTWild: Host Dallas on Saturday.Penguins: Visit Carolina on Saturday. The Vegas Golden Knights return home Tuesday night to face the Buffalo Sabres after completing their longest road trip of the season Saturday, culminating with a much-needed win against the Philadelphia Flyers.Vegas (2-4-0) suffered losses against Buffalo, Washington and Pittsburgh on the trip, but a stirring 1-0 win over the Flyers puts the Golden Knights in the right frame of mind for their rematch with the Sabres, who are 3-2-0 after opening their West coast swing Saturday night with a 3-0 win over the Arizona Coyotes.The Sabres began the season with a 2-2 homestand Womens Jared McCann Jersey , including a 4-2 win over Vegas on Oct. 8 behind two goals by captain Jack Eichel. Buffalo will play five games out west in 10 days. The Golden Knights just finished a five-game trip that spanned seven days.Article continues below ...¡°It wasn¡¯t our best road trip, but 2-3 is better than 1-4, so those are valuable points going back west,¡± said Vegas forward Cody Eakin, who scored the lone goal Saturday late in the third period.Veteran goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury recorded 26 saves against the Flyers in his first shutout of the season. The victory kept the Golden Knights from a fourth straight loss, which never occurred last year in the regular season of their magical inaugural run in the NHL.¡°It¡¯s been a tough beginning to the season,¡± Fleury told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. ¡°I think our play has been improving throughout the road trip. I don¡¯t know, nobody likes to lose, and we had to finish on a good note.¡±The difficult road trip is similar to what the Golden Knights experienced last season. The Knights had only three points out of six road games between October and November in 2017. This year¡¯s longest trip had four points in five games.The Golden Knights rebounded from last year¡¯s early struggle on the road by winning six of their next seven games. How will they fare this time around? They have an opportunity to make up some points with the next five games at the T-Mobile Arena.¡°Just forget about the losses and build off this win,¡± forward Ryan Carpenter told the Review-Journal after the long road trip. ¡°All season we try to just take it one day at a time and when you lose three in a row Jonathan Huberdeau Jersey , it¡¯s never a good feeling, especially after having higher expectations this year. But just off confidence, go home, get some rest and be ready for the next game.¡±Vegas¡¯ defense allowed 14 goals in the first four games of the trip before blanking Philadelphia. The Knights had only eight goals in the five games. They remain without Alex Tuch (lower-body injury) and the suspended Nate Schmidt. Paul Stastny (lower-body) and Deryk Engelland (arm) were injured on the trip. ¡°We feel good leaving the road trip now,¡± Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said after Saturday¡¯s game. ¡°It was a tough trip. We¡¯re going back home for a bunch of games and it¡¯s going to be a long flight home but it¡¯s going to be a good flight. We¡¯re 2-4 and we¡¯re battling back.¡±Buffalo started its road trip in promising fashion with the win over Arizona, which included the first career goal of 18-year-old defenseman Rasmus Dahlin with less than three minutes into the game when he buried a loose puck in the crease.Sabres coach Phil Housley said Dahlin¡¯s teammates were enthusiastic over the goal. Reporters noted that the celebrating Sabres could easily be heard outside the dressing room.¡°They were really glad,¡± Dahlin said on NHL.com. ¡°That makes me glad, too. We have a good chemistry on the team. We¡¯re a good team.¡±