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PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FORWARD Sidney Crosby (87) collides with Anaheim’s Ryan Getzlaf (15) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh on Monday.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FORWARD Sidney Crosby (87) collides with Anaheim’s Ryan Getzlaf (15) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh on Monday.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored on a pair of breakaways to extend his goal streak to a career-best seven games and added two assists to help the Pittsburgh Penguins continue their surge with a 6-2 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night.

Crosby beat John Gibson between the legs to give the Penguins a three-goal cushion in the second period and ripped one by Gibson’s glove early in the third while Pittsburgh emphatically ended Anaheim’s six-game winning streak.

Chris Kunitz, Conor Sheary, Carl Hagelin and Olli Maatta also scored for the Penguins, who have won six of seven. Crosby, mired in a massive slump early in the year, now has 53 points in 51 games. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 36 shots.

Red Wings 3,
Panthers 0

DETROIT (AP) — Pavel Datsyuk scored twice in a 1:08 span midway through the third after Tomas Tatar broke a scoreless tie earlier in the period and Petr Mrazek made 23 saves for Detroit in a win over Florida.

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Mrazek has a career-high four shutouts this season.

Detroit has won two straight home games for the first time in two months.

Rangers 2, Devils 1

NEW YORK (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist made 27 saves and New York posted its first three-game winning streak since November with a victory over New Jersey.

Kevin Klein, who broke a thumb last week, scored for the first time in 28 games and the streaking J.T. Miller scored for the ninth time in 10 games while the Rangers beat the Devils for the first time in three games this season.

Senators 5, Lightning 1

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Mark Stone had two goals and an assist and Ottawa beat Tampa Bay.

Stone has five goals and three assists in his past four games. He went eight straight without a point prior to this stretch.


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