Penguins 6, Ducks 2
PITTSBURGH -- Center Sidney Crosby had two goals and two assists for the Pittsburgh Penguins, who snuffed the six-game winning streak of the Anaheim Ducks with a 6-2 win Monday.
The Penguins won their fifth home game in a row and improved to 7-1-0 in their past eight home games against Anaheim.
Crosby's goals came on breakaways, including a third-period goal he scored while he was falling with Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler chasing and poking at him. Since Jan. 1, Crosby has 26 points.
Left wingers Chris Kunitz, Conor Sheary and Carl Hagelin and defenseman Olli Maatta added goals for Pittsburgh. Hagelin recorded his first since he was acquired from the Ducks in a Jan. 16 trade. Defenseman Kris Letang added two assists.
Center Ryan Getzlaf and left winger Patrick Maroon scored for Anaheim.
Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 36 shots for his sixth home win in a row.
Anaheim goaltender John Gibson, from Whitehall in suburban Pittsburgh, was pulled after allowing sixth goal on 31 shots. He lost for the second time in as many NHL starts in his hometown. He also gave up six goals in the 2014-15 season opener at Consol Energy Center.
Frederik Andersen entered and stopped all four shots he faced.
Kunitz got his 10th goal when he tipped in a shot by Letang for a 1-0 Pittsburgh lead at 3:38 of the first period. Crosby set things in motion with a feed to Letang from the corner, earning Crosby his 50th point. The assist also extended Crosby's point streak and home point streak to 11 games each.
Sheary increased the Penguins' lead to 2-0 at 10:06 with his third goal. From the right circle, he got his stick on a shot by Letang, causing the puck to slow and knuckle under Gibson's pads.
The assist was Letang's 250th career point. It also gave him 26 points (eight goals, 18 assists) and 10 multiple-point games in his past 17 contests.
The Ducks cut their deficit in half when Getzlaf stole the puck from Letang in the neutral zone, moved into the left circle and beat Fleury on the short side to make it 2-1 with 50 seconds left in the first.
Hagelin restored Pittsburgh's two-goal lead with 16.8 seconds remaining in the first. Bursting in from the blue line, he got behind the Anaheim defense and beat Gibson with a backhander for his first goal with the Penguins.
Pittsburgh got a scare when a pass by Crosby hit a stick and deflected into Letang's face in the second period, but he missed only a couple of minutes.
As Letang returned to the Penguins bench, Crosby got the puck at the far blue line for a long breakaway and slipped the puck under Gibson's right pad for a 4-1 lead at 15:01 of the second.
Maroon scored off of a two-on-one to pull Anaheim to within 4-2 at 18:54 of the second.
NOTES: Pittsburgh C Evgeni Malkin missed his third game in a row because of a lower-body injury. Coach Mike Sullivan described Malkin as day to day. ... Penguins D David Warsofsky missed his eighth game in a row because of a concussion, but he participated in the morning skate, the first time since the injury he has joined his teammates on the ice. ... Penguins C Sidney Crosby was named the NHL's No. 1 star of the week. He had five goals and a league-leading eight points last week in three games. ... Pittsburgh's healthy scratches were D Ian Cole and LW Sergei Plotnikov. ... The Penguins host the New York Rangers on Wednesday in a nationally televised game. ... The Ducks played the first game of a season-long, continent-crossing, seven-stop road trip. They play Tuesday at Philadelphia, the first of two back-to-back sets on the trip. ... Anaheim scratched D Korbinian Holzer and LW Harry Zolnierczyk, a former Pittsburgh player.