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Pittsburgh • 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.
Ryan Getzlaf and Patrick Maroon scored for the Ducks. Gibson made 25 saves before being pulled early in the third.
RED WINGS 3, PANTHERS 0
DETROIT • 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.
Mrazek has a career-high four shutouts this season.
Detroit has won two straight home games for the first time in two months.
The Atlantic Division-leading Panthers lost a second straight game and perhaps a key player.
Florida center Aleksander Barkov was knocked out of the game in the second period after getting hit high by the left shoulder of Red Wings winger Justin Abdelkader. Barkov's return to the game was ruled out because of what the team described as an upper-body injury.
Florida's Al Montoya stopped 28 shots.
RANGERS 2, DEVILS 1
NEW YORK • 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.
This win came with captain Ryan McDonagh sidelined with a concussion. It was New York's fifth straight victory at Madison Square Garden, and the Rangers are 7-3 in their last 10 overall.
Cory Schneider made 35 saves for New Jersey, which lost its third straight (0-1-2). Travis Zajac scored a short-handed goal with 2:17 left to spoil Lundqvist's shutout bid.
SENATORS 5, LIGHTNING 1
OTTAWA, Ontario • 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.
The Senators gave the Lightning their second loss in 12 games.
Zack Smith, Shane Prince and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also scored for Ottawa, and Craig Anderson made 31 saves. Pageau added two assists.
Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 24 of 28 shots for Tampa Bay. J.T. Brown scored the Lightning's only goal.
NHL standings
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 53 31 16 6 68 148 119
Tampa Bay 52 29 19 4 62 140 126
Boston 52 28 18 6 62 155 138
Detroit 53 27 18 8 62 134 134
Montreal 54 26 24 4 56 147 144
Ottawa 54 25 23 6 56 157 170
Buffalo 53 21 26 6 48 121 143
Toronto 51 19 23 9 47 122 145
Metropolitan GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Washington 51 38 9 4 80 169 115
N.Y. Rangers 53 30 18 5 65 153 137
Pittsburgh 52 27 18 7 61 139 135
N.Y. Islanders 51 27 18 6 60 146 130
New Jersey 54 26 21 7 59 122 128
Carolina 54 24 21 9 57 130 144
Philadelphia 51 23 19 9 55 123 138
Columbus 54 21 28 5 47 138 170
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Chicago 56 36 16 4 76 159 128
Dallas 53 33 15 5 71 172 144
St. Louis 55 30 17 8 68 135 132
Nashville 53 25 20 8 58 138 140
Colorado 55 27 24 4 58 149 152
Minnesota 52 23 20 9 55 127 128
Winnipeg 52 23 26 3 49 136 152
Pacific GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Los Angeles 51 31 17 3 65 137 119
San Jose 51 27 20 4 58 149 139
Anaheim 51 25 19 7 57 115 123
Arizona 52 24 22 6 54 139 162
Vancouver 52 20 20 12 52 124 145
Calgary 51 23 25 3 49 135 150
Edmonton 54 21 28 5 47 136 165
Monday's games
N.Y. Rangers 2, New Jersey 1
Pittsburgh 6, Anaheim 2
Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 1
Detroit 3, Florida 0