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Saturday, December 27, 2003
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GOAL SCORERS

NJD:   J. Pandolfo (PPG, 09:36 - 1st) , J. Friesen (PPG, 09:48 - 3rd)
GOALIES

NJD: C. Schwab (W)
 PIT: J. Aubin (L)
Associated Press
Devils-Penguins Preview

GAME: New Jersey Devils (18-6-8-1) at Pittsburgh Penguins (8-18-5-3).

TIME: Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST.

Even with rookie phenom Marc-Andre Fleury playing for the Canadien junior team, the Pittsburgh Penguins still have a solid, young goalie in Sebastien Caron.

It's the offense they need to figure out.

The struggling Penguins look to jump-start their offense as they host the defending Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils at Mellon Arena.

Caron stopped 41 shots Friday, helping the Penguins pull out a 3-3 tie with the Ottawa Senators.

Caron is 2-4-1 in seven straight starts since the Penguins loaned Fleury to the junior team early in December. He has stopped at least 25 shots in four of those appearances and at least 33 in three.

Fleury posted a shutout in Canada's 3-0 win over Finland earlier on Friday.

"There's a lot of pressure on (Caron) -- has been since Marc-Andre went to Europe," said Penguins defenseman Steve McKenna, whose goal early in the second gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead.

"A lot of people in this town saw Marc-Andre play today and maybe came to the rink wondering, 'OK, now what does Pittsburgh have?' We threw a pretty darned good goaltender in there."

The Penguins haven't been giving Caron much help.

Against the Senators, they were held to a franchise-low 11 shots for the second time in four games and third time this season.

"If it wasn't for our goaltender, we would have got no points at all," Penguins coach Ed Olczyk said.

The Devils are coming off Friday's 4-3 overtime loss to the New York Islanders.

Jeff Friesen scored with 8:01 left in regulation to cap a three-goal comeback and force overtime for the Devils. Brian Rafalski and Patrik Elias also scored for New Jersey, which has two wins in its last five games (2-1-1-1).




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EASTERN CONFERENCE
  TEAM GP W L OT GF GA PTS
1 z - PIT 48 36 12 0 165 119 72
2 y - MTL 48 29 14 5 149 126 63
3 y - WSH 48 27 18 3 149 130 57
4 x - BOS 48 28 14 6 131 109 62
5 x - TOR 48 26 17 5 145 133 57
6 x - NYR 48 26 18 4 130 112 56
7 x - OTT 48 25 17 6 116 104 56
8 x - NYI 48 24 17 7 139 139 55
9 WPG 48 24 21 3 128 144 51
10 PHI 48 23 22 3 133 141 49
11 NJD 48 19 19 10 112 129 48
12 BUF 48 21 21 6 125 143 48
13 CAR 48 19 25 4 128 160 42
14 TBL 48 18 26 4 148 150 40
15 FLA 48 15 27 6 112 171 36

STATS

2012-2013 REGULAR SEASON
SKATERS: GP G A +/- Pts
P. Elias 48 14 22 5 36
I. Kovalchuk 37 11 20 -6 31
D. Clarkson 48 15 9 -6 24
T. Zajac 48 7 13 -5 20
M. Zidlicky 48 4 15 -12 19
S. Sullivan 42 7 10 -12 17
A. Henrique 42 11 5 -3 16
A. Greene 48 4 12 12 16
S. Bernier 47 8 7 -7 15
R. Carter 44 6 9 -2 15
 
GOALIES: W L OT Sv% GAA
M. Brodeur 13 9 7 .901 2.22
J. Hedberg 6 10 3 .883 2.76
 
          
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