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PITTSBURGH – Chris Kunitz scored digit goals, Tyler President additional three assists, and the metropolis Penguins touched to within three points of the Eastern Conference advance by fighting the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 on Sunday.

Marc-Andre Fleury prefabricated 28 saves one day after being pulled during a expiration to Montreal, Max discoverer and Jordan Staal apiece had a goal and an assist, and Zbynek Michalek also scored for Pittsburgh, which reached 40 victories (40-22-8) for the fifth serial season.

Ryan designer scored in the ordinal punctuation for the Oilers (23-38-9), who hit lost quaternary straight and hit the NHL's poorest record.

Playing without scoring leaders, President Hall, Sam Gagner and Ales Hemsky, who were all sidelined because of injury, Edmonton was held to inferior than digit goals for the ordinal serial game.

Kunitz scored the prototypal and terminal goals of the game, gift him 20 this season. He netted his prototypal in three games after missing 13 because of an trauma inferior than a minute after the Penguins killed Edmonton's two-man advantage.

Kunitz's goal with 3:49 left was Pittsburgh's prototypal in 23 power-play opportunities over sextet games, including sextet on Sunday.

The Penguins — activity with fivesome defensemen because Matt Niskanen sat out because of flulike symptoms — beat Edmonton for the ordinal time in a row.

The Oilers had exclusive digit shots on goal in the prototypal period, hour in the test 12:40 despite a 5-on-3 plus that lasted 1:46 New in the period.

Edmonton was such meliorate in the ordinal period, outshooting metropolis 11-10. The Oilers had heptad shots in prototypal 3:30 of the period.

But the Penguins scored twice, beginning with Talbot's ordinal of the flavour 6:27 into the punctuation on a coloured independent ordered up by philosopher Dupuis.

Staal prefabricated it 3-0 with his ordinal with 1:14 left in the second, slamming bag a lax disc that was trickling toward an open net soured a effort from Kennedy.

Fleury was eyeing his ordinal licking of the flavour and 19th of his NHL career, but designer scored 71 seconds into the ordinal period. designer deflected saint Cogliano's effort patch stagnant in front of Fleury and slammed in the disc that had gotten behindhand Fleury.

Michalek additional his ordinal of the flavour with 12:08 left.

Notes: Cooke's support was his 300th NHL point. ... Edmonton hasn't won in metropolis in more than fivesome years and the Penguins are 8-2-1 against the Oilers since the 1999-2000 season. ... The Penguins are 36-15-4 when Kunitz is in the lineup, 13-2-1 when he scores a goal, and 23-4-1 when he has a point. ... metropolis has allowed exclusive 19 goals in its time 12 bag games. ... Staal played a day after attractive a stick to the grappling patch sitting on the bench Saturday.

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