Pens beat Rags to improve to 7-1 in division play

The Pens scored two goals with a 5 on 3 advantage en route to a 3-1 win over the Rangers on Saturday, November 18th. Mark Recchi had two goals, and Sidney Crosby and Sergei Gonchar had two assists apiece. The other goal game from Jordan Staal, and Evgeni Malkin and Colby Armstrong each had an assist.


Stats update after 18 team games: (Team record 9w-7l-2otl-0sol for 20 points)

Name	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-
Sidney Crosby	C	18	9	19	28	24	+7
Evgeni Malkin	C	14	9	7	16	16	+4
Mark Recchi	R	18	4	11	15	10	+7
Michel Ouellet	R	18	6	8	14	10	-3
Sergei Gonchar	D	18	2	12	14	24	-1
Ryan Whitney	D	18	2	10	12	29	E
Nils Ekman	R	17	5	6	11	12	-6
Jordan Staal	C	18	7	1	8	4	+2
Colby Armstrong	W	18	0	7	7	25	+1
John LeClair	L	17	1	5	6	12	-2
Dominic Moore	C	18	3	3	6	22	-1
Maxime Talbot	C	11	3	0	3	6	E
Josef Melichar	D	18	1	2	3	10	E
Jarkko Ruutu	L	18	1	2	3	22	-2
Rob Scuderi	D	18	0	3	3	0	+2
Kristopher Letang	D	7	2	0	2	4	-3
Noah Welch	D	11	1	1	2	14	+1
Mark Eaton	D	11	0	2	2	2	+2
Chris Thorburn	C	15	1	1	2	37	E
Ryan Malone	F	7	0	1	1	19	-4
Ronald Petrovicky	R	1	0	0	0	0	E
Eric Cairns	D	1	0	0	0	5	E
Karl Stewart	C	3	0	0	0	2	-1
Andre Roy	L	4	0	0	0	12	E
Jocelyn Thibault	G	4	0	0	0	0	0
Brooks Orpik	D	7	0	0	0	2	E
Marc-Andre Fleury	G	15	0	0	0	2	0

Crosby leads the league in points per game, and is within 3 points of the overall lead in points, with as many as 4 games in hand on the players in front of him.