Pens Come from Behind, Again.

The Penguins post another victory after coming back from a three goal deficit. With second remaining in the second, unlikely goal scorer, Brooks Orpik notched his second of the season from the point to get his team on the board. Pascal Dupuis and Miroslav Satan assisted at 19:41. However this was only after the Islanders had three points on the board.

Doug Weight, Trent Hunter, and Bill Guerin all scored for the Islanders, two of the goals came on the power play. After the third goal at 9:27 of the second starter Dany Sabourin was replaced by John Curry. Curry played in his first NHL game and posted his first NHL win stopping all eleven shots he faced.

Mid-way through the first period Eric Godard 6'4'' dropped the gloves with Mitch Fritz 6'7''. The fight was ended by officials after close to a minute when no winner was clear.

The Pens had a goal waved off as the officials put it, "The player went in with the puck." The goal would have been awarded to Sidney Crosby, but that just fueled his desire to get a point on the night.

At 6:18 Crosby had an easy time of getting his eighth of the season as he stood on the goal line and received a beautiful pass from Evgeni Malkin. Kris Letang also assisted.

The dynamic duo and the Pens weren`t done yet, they notched their third goal of the night to tie the game at 11:03. This time Evgeni Malkin put it passed MacDonald with help from Crosby and Brooks Orpik.

The lead wasn`t far from reach as it only two 50 more seconds from Crosby and Malkin to connect again for Malkin`s second goal of the night.

But Malkin wasn`t done, he completed the hat-trick with a shot into the empty net at 19:42. Rob Scuderi joined the defensemen with points on the night with an assist on Malkin`s tenth of the year.

The Pens lost one of their key wingers early in the game when Max Talbot took a slap shot to the foot; he is now listed as day-to-day.

The three stars were 3. Trent Hunter, 2. Sidney Crosby, 1. Evgeni Malkin.

Ryan Whitney (foot), Sergei Gonchar (shoulder), and Marc-Andre Fleury (lower body) all missed the game along with healthy scratch Mark Eaton.

Next the Pens take on the Sabers in Buffalo Friday night at 7:38.