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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin celebrates his goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New Jersey Devils in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

PITTSBURGH \u2014 Evgeni Malkin scored a power-play goal in his return from an upper-body injury and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New Jersey Devils 4-1 on Thursday night for their sixth straight victory.<\/p>\n

Erik Karlsson pushed his career-best home points streak to nine games with a goal, while Connor Dewar and Blake Lizotte also scored for Pittsburgh. The Penguins have points in 26 of the 33 games Lizotte has played.<\/p>\n

Sidney Crosby extended his points streak to eight with two assists and surpassed Wayne Gretzky for the second-most assists with one franchise in NHL history. It\u2019s Crosby\u2019s first eight-game points streak since the 2012-13 season. Crosby, who has four straight multipoint games, has five goals and 14 points in his last eight games.<\/p>\n

Stuart Skinner made 25 saves for the Penguins, who have won six straight games for the first time since December 2022. Pittsburgh has won seven of eight following an eight-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Luke Hughes scored a power-play goal for the Devils, who lost their third straight. New Jersey has dropped seven of its last nine games.<\/p>\n

Simon Nemec played after missing 12 games with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

Jake Allen stopped 25 shots for the Devils.<\/p>\n

Before Hughes scored, the Devils allowed 14 straight goals. That includes Pittsburgh\u2019s first three goals, a 9-0 loss at the New York Islanders on Tuesday and two goals allowed against Carolina on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Devils: At Winnipeg on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Penguins: Host Calgary on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin skates during the first period of an NHL hockey game against the New Jersey Devils in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin (71) celebrates his goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the New Jersey Devils in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

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New Jersey Devils goaltender Jake Allen (34) blocks a shot by Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby (87) during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n

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New Jersey Devils goaltender Jake Allen (34) blocks a shot by Pittsburgh Penguins’ Justin Brazeau (16) with Luke Hughes (43) defending during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Gene J. Puskar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Penguins’ Evgeni Malkin celebrates his goal during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[12526,12518,12513,12533,12539,12541,12087,12521,12519,1155,201,12520,12525,12516,12538,12532,12515,12536,12524,12514,5,12527,997,12540,12530,576,151,5185,5184,40,4,12517,562,12531,1011,12522,12535,12534,12523,9809,12529,12528,12537],"class_list":["post-398783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-bruin","tag-butler","tag-butler-eagle","tag-cabot","tag-callery","tag-cherry-valley","tag-community-news","tag-connoquenessing","tag-cranberry","tag-crime","tag-devils","tag-east-butler","tag-eau-claire","tag-education-news","tag-evans-city","tag-fairview","tag-government-news","tag-harmony","tag-harrisville","tag-high-school-sports-news","tag-hockey","tag-karns-city","tag-local-news","tag-mars","tag-mount-chesnut","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-obituaries","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petrolia","tag-political-news","tag-portersville","tag-sarver","tag-saxonburg","tag-slippery-rock","tag-valencia","tag-west-liberty","tag-west-sunbury","tag-zelienople"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}