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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins filled the penalty box in a hurry. Brayden Point loaded up the net with pucks at a rapid pace Adidas Martin Hanzal Jersey , too.Point scored three straight power-play goals in 1:31 — the sixth-fastest three goals in NHL history — and the Lightning beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Thursday night.“That’s a first for me,” Point said. “They told me after the game, so it’s pretty cool. Guys made good plays and I was able to score.”Bill Mosienko holds the record, scoring three times in 21 seconds for Chicago against New York in 1952. Point’s 91-second burst was the first NHL hat trick of his career and the second-fastest three goals since 1967-68.“It’s great to see because he’s such a hard worker and he plays the game the right way,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “You like to see those guys get rewarded and he was tonight.”Pittsburgh took three penalties in 10 seconds in the final minute of the first period. Point’s first power-play goal came with 2.7 seconds left in the first. He scored twice in the first 1:28 of the second period, finishing two slick one-touch passing sequences with one-timers.“I thought we moved the puck well,” Point said. “Obviously, 5-on-3s are pretty tough to defend, and I thought we weren’t getting too cute with it. I thought we were making good plays to the net and shooting the puck.”Yanni Gourde also had a power-play goal, Nikita Kucherov added three assists, and backup goalie Louis Domingue made 28 saves to help the Lightning win for the fifth time in seven games. Starting goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy is out indefinitely after injuring a foot during practice Wednesday.Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby sat out after sustaining an upper-body injury Tuesday night at New Jersey. Coach Mike Sullivan confirmed the injury is not a concussion, and Crosby is considered day-to-day Adidas Blake Comeau Jersey , but will likely miss a week.Patric Hornqvist scored twice for Pittsburgh, Phil Kessel also connected, Evgeni Malkin had two assists and Matt Murray stopped 22 shots. The Penguins have lost seven of eight following a four-game winning streak.Pittsburgh committed eight penalties through two periods, which led to four Tampa Bay power-play goals.“We put ourselves in a real tough spot at the end of the first period,” Sullivan said. “We have to find a way to get through that and we didn’t get it done, so we have to be better.”Newly acquired forward Tanner Pearson was in the lineup for Pittsburgh. The Penguins acquired Pearson from Los Angeles on Wednesday in exchange for Carl Hagelin in a roster shakeup. Pearson skated with Malkin and Hornqvist.“Tanner is a guy that we think can help us offensively,” Sullivan said. “He’s played with top players when he was in L.A. and we’d like to give him a decent look and see if he can develop some chemistry.”The teams combined to score the first five goals on power plays.Hornqvist scored Pittsburgh’s first power-play goal at home in seven games when he tipped Kessel’s shot behind Domingue. Kessel gave Pittsburgh a 2-0 lead with a power-play goal later in the period.Hornqvist’s second goal tied it for Pittsburgh, but Gourde gave Tampa Bay the lead with the Lightning’s fourth power-play goal of the game, a blocker-side slap shot from the top of the circle.“Clearly special teams was a big part of this game,” Cooper said. “They got their chances and scored and we got ours and scored. The power play was huge for us tonight and gave us momentum.”NOTES: Kucherov had his 200th NHL assist. Gourde has points in eight of his last 10 games. Tampa Bay’s Alex Killorn has an assist in a career-best four straight games. Kris Letang passed Syl Apps for sixth on the Penguins’ assists list. Letang has points in 11 of his last 14 games against Tampa Bay. … The Lightning allowed the first goal for the ninth time in the last 10 games. The Penguins wore their yellow third jerseys for the first time. Hall of Famer and Penguins owner Mario Lemieux dropped the puck for a ceremonial opening faceoff, celebrating 25 years of his foundation.UP NEXTLightning: At Philadelphia on Saturday night.Penguins: At Ottawa on Saturday night. DENVER (AP) — Mikko Rantanen got an assist for setting up the go-ahead goal. Nathan MacKinnon wanted to give him something more — full credit.“All Mikko there,” he said.MacKinnon scored the tiebreaking goal with 10:58 remaining on a nifty pass from Rantanen Adidas Erik Condra Jersey , and the Colorado Avalanche rallied past the Boston Bruins 6-3 on Wednesday night in a showdown between two of the top scoring lines in the league.Semyon Varlamov made 20 saves and the Avalanche scored four times in the third period after trailing by two in the second.“It’s always good to beat a good team like them,” MacKinnon said.This is no line, either: Colorado took momentary bragging rights in boasting the most explosive unit in the NHL.The Avs’ top line of Gabriel Landeskog (goal), MacKinnon (goal and an assist) and Rantanen (goal and two assists) produced six points to give them a league-leading 75 for the season.The squad outperformed the unit right behind them as the Bruins’ top trio of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak combined for a goal and two assists. They ran their season total to 71 points.From one top line to the other, Bergeron was certainly impressed.“All three of them are great players, no question about it,” Bergeron said. “They see each other well. They’re tough to defend and it was a great challenge, a good matchup. It was a fun game.”Jake DeBrusk scored twice for the Bruins. Jaroslav Halak finished with 19 saves.Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara sustained a lower-body injury in the first period and didn’t return. He finished a check on Carl Soderberg along the boards and appeared to favor his left leg. After that, the Bruins were down to five defensemen.Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said the team would have more information about Chara on Thursday.“It seems like we’re losing a guy every game,” Halak said. “We need to keep playing hard and whoever comes in the lineup has to step up.”Avalanche forward Matt Calvert tied the score at 3 early in the third when he banked in a shot off the skate of a Bruins defenseman. That set the stage for MacKinnon, who used his speed to get ahead of the defense and knock in his 12th goal.“He gave me so much room. It was a great play by (Rantanen) Adidas Anton Khudobin Jersey ,” MacKinnon said.Both teams scored power-play goals in the second — DeBrusk to give Boston a 3-1 lead and Rantanen to trim the deficit.Colorado led 1-0 midway through the first after Landeskog scored off a backhand pass from Rantanen. The Bruins hit three posts in the period, but found the net on a tip-in from Pastrnak and 2:37 later DeBrusk cruised in all alone and juked Varlamov for a goal. The breakaway was set up by a turnover from MacKinnon as he sent an errant pass right to DeBrusk, who was trailing the play because he dropped his stick.“I’ve never seen anything like that in any league,” DeBrusk said. “I didn’t know what happened. I just saw the puck pop out and was at the red line already so I had a good head start.”Boston and Colorado were looking forward to this matchup, given the offensive firepower of the top lines. Each coach vowed to pit them against each other as often as possible.They did, too.“It’s a good motivating factor for MacKinnon’s line and for Bergeron’s line to sort of want to put a stamp on being the best one,” Cassidy said.MacKinnon and Marchand know each other quite well. Both are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sometimes skate together in the offseason. But they work out separately.“Nate can’t keep up. He’s got to work out with someone else,” Marchand joked. “He’s an incredible player — very hard to play against.”NOTES: Boston G Tuukka Rask served as a backup. He missed the previous two games as he took a leave of absence for personal reasons. … Avalanche forward Tyson Jost and Alexander Kerfoot each scored a late power-play goal.UP NEXTBruins: The second stop on their four-game trip is Friday in Dallas.Avalanche: Host the Washington Capitals on Friday.