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Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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APRoy, Kyle Wanvig and Chris Gratton scored as Penguins goalie Ty Conklin (10-1-1) lost in regulation for the first time this season. The Penguins had won six in a row at home and were 9-0-1 in their previous 10 overall, only to play an uninspired game that may have been aided by the sellout crowd’s visible letdown after Crosby was hurt.
“Sid is a big part of that team,” Lightning star Vincent Lecavalier said. “For them to win, someone else is going to have to lead, and I think (Evgeni) Malkin is going to have to do that.”
Malkin didn’t score after having 12 goals and three assists in his previous 12 games, including a pair of three-goal games in 11 days. He knows he can’t go scoreless regularly with Crosby out if the Penguins are to stay near the top of the Atlantic Division.
“Right now, since we lost our leader and our captain, I’m going to try my best and raise my game,” said Malkin, who is second on the team with 52 points. “I’m going to try to do a little more.”
Roy’s three points matched his season’s total in his first 46 games this season. Gratton also had an assist.
“It’s a team that gave up on me,” said Roy, who was signed by Pittsburgh in 2005 following the NHL lockout only to be let go after playing five games last season. “It’s not like I was trying to get revenge or anything, it just happened like that.”
Tampa Bay was 2-7-2 in its previous 11 games and was coming off a 3-0 loss to Colorado on Tuesday, but won its seventh in a row in Pittsburgh since a 5-3 loss on Nov. 2, 2002.
Notes: Pittsburgh is 18-6-1 in its last 25 games. ... Lecavalier, tied for the scoring lead with Crosby and Atlanta’s Ilya Kovalchuk, was held without a point for a fourth consecutive game and without a goal for the fifth game in a row. He hadn’t gone four consecutive games without a point since Nov. 22-27, 2005. ... The shutout loss was only the second by the Penguins. They lost 4-0 to the New York Rangers on Dec. 18.
Ryan Callahan scored for the fifth time in four days and defenseman Ryan McDonagh snapped a second-period tie to lift the New York Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Washington Capitals on Sunday.
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Silva: Each NFL team enters the offseason with a series of pressing needs. Sometimes a team can address them all, sometimes they ignore them all. But if a team's smart, they'll listen to us. These are the most crucial aspects for NFC teams.