Hagelin and Crosby each score twice as Penguins beat Senators

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Carl Hagelin scored twice to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 5-3 victory over the Ottawa Senators Tuesday night.

Sidney Crosby, with two including an empty netter, and Patrick Hornqvist also scored for Pittsburgh (47-25-8), which won its seventh straight. Rookie goaltender Matt Murray made 27 saves in his fourth start.

Erik Karlsson, Mike Hoffman and Zack Smith scored for the Senators (36-35-9), who blew a 3-0 lead. Andrew Hammond stopped 23-of-27 shots.

Tied 3-3, the Senators failed to score on a 1:32 two-man advantage to try and regain the lead and then midway through the period Kris Letang sprawled across the crease to make a huge save behind Murray that looked like a sure-goal.

Then a harmless looking shot from Hagelin found its way past Hammond to make it 4-3 Pittsburgh.

With the Senators holding precariously to a 3-2 lead to start the third the Penguins took advantage of a brutal Hoffman giveaway behind his own net to Nick Bonino, who found Hagelin wide open out front to tie the game at the four-minute mark.

Hoffman had given the Senators a 2-0 lead two minutes into the second, scoring his 29th of the season and just over a minute later it was 3-0 as Smith, who was celebrating his 28th birthday, beat Murray glove side.

The Penguins managed to get on board at the seven-minute mark of the period when the puck seemed to get lost in the crowd in the crease and Hornqvist was able to jam it past Hammond.

Crosby then went on to extend his point streak to seven games (3G, 4A) as he picked up a rebound and beat Hammond shortside to make it 3-2 at the 15-minute mark.

Karlsson picked up his 100th career goal midway through the first as he banked a shot off Hornqvist. It was Karlsson's 80th point of the season.

Already without a number of veterans the Senators Bobby Ryan suffered a lower-body injury in the second and did not return for the third.