The New Jersey Devils Attempt to take down the Resourceful Pittsburgh Penguins

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The New Jersey Devils Attempt to take down the Resourceful Pittsburgh Penguins

The New Jersey Devils are trying to get back on the winning track against the Pittsburgh Penguins. The Penguins are winning hockey games, despite the fact that they seemingly play shorthanded nearly every night.

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Even though they have been playing almost exclusively without Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin for more than two months, they pulled within four points of Philadelphia for the top spot in the Eastern Conference with their dramatic shootout victory in Detroit on Monday night.

The adversity never seems to stop for the Penguins. Matt Cooke is done until the second round of the playoffs because of a suspension, rugged defenseman Brooks Orpik remains out of the lineup with a broken finger, center Mark Letestu missed a second straight game and, perhaps most alarmingly, the Penguins have many players who are failing to match expectations.

The defensive duo of Zbynek Michalek and Paul Martin has been solid all season but not spectacular. Lately, the pair has been on the ice for seemingly every goal against, and such was the case in Detroit. Also, defenseman Kris Letang, so magnificent most of the season, is stuck in a funk. Heck, even the team's outstanding penalty-killing unit endured a second consecutive poor day.

And yet the Penguins keep winning. The victory moved them three points ahead of Tampa Bay for the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs and enabled them to continue to stay within striking distance of the Flyers.

The Penguins will travel to Philadelphia on Thursday for a showdown with the Flayers before playing them five days later at Consol Energy Center.

The Penguins are 18-8 in their last 26 vs. a team with a losing record the home team is 6-1 in the last seven meetings between these two teams.

The Devils begin to fade out of the playoffs with a loss to Pittsburgh.

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