The Pens shut-out the New Jersey Devils at the Continental 3-0 tonight, gaining two valuable points, closing the Atlantic Division gap to 4 points, and widening the gap on 9th place to 11 points. The win also reduced the Pens magic number to 13 points with 12 games remaining.
Jarkko Ruutu was the force of the night, scoring the first goal late in the second period off of a Sidney Crosby assist. He had an assist on the Pens 2nd goal midway through the third, feeding Erik Christensen for a 2-0 lead. Alain Nasreddine had the other assist, giving him a two-game point streak. Jordan Staal scored with a little more than 2 minutes to go from Evgeni Malkin and Michel Ouellet for the final margin.
With Ottawa off tonight, the Pens leapfrog them into the 4 slot in the standings for the first time in two weeks, and evens them up in number of games played at 70.
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