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Men: Saint Francis at Penn St. Tipoff: 7 p.m., Jordan Center, University Park Records: Saint Francis (1-1), Penn State (2-0) TV: Peacock Network Radio: WRKY-FM 104.9 Internet: Sirius XM Ch. 386 & 976 Notable: Red Flash are coming off an upset win at Campbell, a team that lost by only nine points at Virginia prior to the SFU game. … Valentino Peneda, a junior, scored a career-high 15 points for the Red Flash in the win. He is one of two juniors in the lineup, along with three sophomores, led by Ace Talbert and Bobby Rosenberger III who are averaging 17.5 and 10.0 points, ...

Malkin, Penguins double up Capitals

By Stephen Whyno AP Hockey Writer WASHINGTON — Evgeni Malkin scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 4-2 on Friday night in the 95th NHL game between Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. While all eyes were on Crosby and Ovechkin, Malkin set up Erik Karlsson’s goal 3:11 into the first and then scored the winner with 9:32 left. With 18 points, Malkin is the leading scorer for the Penguins, who won for the sixth time in 16 games this season after getting a goal from Michael Bunting assisted on by Karlsson and ...

Hurricanes storm past Penguins

From Mirror, wire reports RALEIGH, N.C. — Jack Roslovic had two goals and an assist as the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5-1 on Thursday night for their eighth straight win. Jordan Martinook, Jaccob Slavin and Eric Robinson also scored for Carolina, and Jalen Chatfield had three assists. Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 35 shots. Blake Lizotte scored for Pittsburgh and Alex Nedeljkovic had 14 saves. The Penguins lost for the eighth time in 10 games (2-6-2). The Hurricanes needed just 52 seconds to get on the scoreboard with Martinook tipping in a pass by Jordan Staal. ...

Islanders rally to beat Penguins

By Scott Charles Associated Press NEW YORK — Bo Horvat scored the only goal in a shootout and the New York Islanders rallied past the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Tuesday night. New York goalie Ilya Sorokin denied Rickard Rakell, Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang in the tiebreaker and finished with 32 saves. Kyle Palmieri had a goal and an assist for the Islanders, who trailed 3-1 midway through the third period. Simon Holmstrom and Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored in the third for New York. Horvat had two assists. Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist to lead Pittsburgh. Crosby got his ...

Crosby scores twice in win

The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby scored two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1 on Saturday night. Blake Lizotte scored an empty-net goal in the final minute for Pittsburgh. Kris Letang, playing in his 1,100th regular-season game, finished with an assist against his hometown team. Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 25 shots for the Penguins. Christian Dvorak scored for Montreal and Sam Montembeault made 21 saves. Crosby got the Penguins on the scoreboard with 4:03 remaining in the first period and then made it 2-0 on the power play with 1:20 ...

Crosby delivers; Pens end skid

PITTSBURGH — Sidney Crosby scored his second goal of the game 2:35 into overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 on Thursday night to end a six-game losing streak. Crosby found himself in alone on Lukas Dostal and hit the brakes before roofing the puck over the Ducks’ goaltender for the 93rd game-winning goal of his career. Alex Nedeljkovic made 22 saves for Pittsburgh, which outshot Anaheim 46-23. Dostal stopped 44 shots to keep the Ducks in it, but it still wasn’t enough. Alex Killorn picked up his second goal of the season for the Ducks, who ended a ...