PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins are heading to the playoffs for an eighth straight year.
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all but clinched. What happens after that, however, is anybodys guess. Dominant
in the beginning but dismal at the end, the Penguins let a chance to clinch
their second straight division crown slip away in a 4-1 loss to Carolina on
Tuesday night that left Pittsburgh just 8-8-2 since returning from the Olympic
break. Not exactly the kind of momentum a Stanley Cup contender wants to bring
into the final days of the regular season. "If youre not 100 per cent, they can
expose you and make you look pretty silly," Penguins defenceman Brooks Orpik
said. "Thats what happened here tonight." Carolina rookie Elias Lindholm scored
twice for the first multi-goal game of his career, Eric Staal and Justin Faulk
also scored while Jeff Skinner added two assists. Anton Khudobin stopped 30
shots as the Hurricanes avoided being swept in the season series by Pittsburgh
for the first time in 18 years. "I thought we kept it simple and kind of slowly
frustrated them as it went on and it was a win we needed," Staal said.
Chris Kunitz scored his 35th goal to give Pittsburgh an early lead, but the
Penguins crumbled over the final two periods. Sidney Crosby picked up an assist
to push his NHL-leading point total to 100, but the Penguins appeared to lose
interest after failing to bury the Hurricanes during a frenetic opening barrage
in which they appeared ready to run Carolina out of the arena. "We all felt like
the first 10 minutes we were carrying the play ... for whatever reason we got
away from that," Crosby said. "Maybe we thought that came easy or we could get
away with cheating. And it didnt work." No, it didnt. Marc-Andre Fleury made 24
saves, but received little help playing behind a sloppy defence. The Penguins
turned it over 13 times, including a series of miscues the Hurricanes were only
too happy to turn into goals. "I think we started mismanaging the puck and
started having turnovers in the neutral zone," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said.
The Penguins appeared to right the enigmatic final third of their season with a
spirited 4-1 victory over Chicago on Sunday night. Two days later, the sense of
urgency evaporated when the Hurricanes -- who are about to miss the playoffs for
the fifth straight year -- failed to roll over. Pittsburgh recorded 12 of the
first 14 shots, including Kunitzs wrist shot from the left circle that Khudobin
never saw. Crosby picked up the secondary assist to lift his point total to the
century mark for the fifth time in his career, drawing a roar from the usual
sellout crowd at Consol Energy Center. It had all the makings of a blowout. One
developed, just not the one the Penguins were expecting. Carolina steadied
itself late in the first, evening the game on a knuckling slap shot by Faulk
that gave the Hurricanes the confidence boost they needed to get back in it. The
Penguins malaise did the rest. "That goal from (Faulk) really evens it up and
then we kind of just took a deep breath, got our legs going better and then I
thought we just started moving better and playing a much smarter game," Carolina
coach Kirk Muller said. Lindholm put Carolina in front to stay 9:24 into the
second with a power-play goal that included a pretty feed from Skinner, who
threaded a pass between Pittsburgh defenceman Olli Maattas legs right to
Lindholms stick. Fleury never had a chance. The goaltender was equally helpless
five minutes later when a turnover by teammate Deryk Engelland handed Skinner
and Lindholm a breakaway that Lindholm converted into the first multi-goal game
of his brief career. Any late push by the Penguins ended when Staals tip-in
eluded Fleury with just over 8 minutes left. Instead of skating off the ice with
their fourth division title since Crosbys arrival in 2005, Pittsburgh trudged to
the locker room wondering when the consistency that propelled them to the top of
the Eastern Conference before the Olympic break will return. "Theres not much
good to take out of it," Crosby said. "So weve just got to make sure we respond
the next game." NOTES: Carolina played without F Alexander Semin, who was
scratched due to an illness. ... The Hurricanes return home to face Dallas on
Thursday. ... The Penguins fell to 45-8-4 this season when Crosby scores a
point.
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of these things to kind of affect you," Wilson told TSN Hockey Insider Pierre
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four-goal third period which lifted Calgary over Edmonton, 4-2, at the
Saddledome. Paul Byron and Sean Monahan also tallied while Mikael Backlund and
David Jones chipped in two assists each for the Flames, who had lost two of
three coming in and have now taken six of eight overall. Jonas Hiller stopped
17-of-19 shots for the victory. Jordan Eberle and Benoit Pouliot scored for the
Oilers, who have dropped five of their last eight. Ben Scrivens made 29 saves in
the setback. Calgary finally got on the board at 2:56 of the third as Mason
Raymond circled the Oilers net from left to right and his shot hit Byron and
beat Scrivens to the far side from the circle. Bouma evened the score at 6::16
on a shot in close and Monahan gave the Flames their first lead of the night on
a power-play at 8:39.
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a Backlund pass. Scrivens was on the bench for an extra skater in the final
two-plus minutes but Edmonton failed to reduce its deficit. Eberle opened the
scoring off a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins dish from a faceoff win 2:43 in, then Pouliot
doubled the advantage on a shot from between the circles at 11:41. Game Notes
Calgary extended their NHL-best win total when trailing after two periods to
nine ... Both teams are in action on Monday, as the Flames continue their
residency against Winnipeg while the Oilers head to San Jose.
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