Sidney Crosby scored a goal, prevented one and his deft stickhandling led to Kris Letang's winner late in the third period as the Pittsburgh Penguins rebounded to beat the Ottawa Senators 2-1 Friday night to level the Eastern Conference first-round playoff series at a game apiece. Several minutes after Crosby slid on his stomach across the crease to punch away Anton Volchenkov's shot as it lay inches from the goal line, Crosby began cycling the puck by himself behind the Ottawa net. Looking for an opening to pass or to dart out and take a shot, he crossed the goalie trapezoid three times before finally carrying the puck out and, sliding to the ice, feeding it to Letang at the right point. Letang's shot with 4:12 left beat goalie Brian Elliott, who made 29 saves but didn't get any support after Peter Regin scored on the Senators' first shot 18 seconds into the game. Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury shook off that goal and a poor first game to turn aside Ottawa's next 19 shots. Sharks 6, Avalanche 5, OT: At San Jose, Devin Setoguchi deflected in a loose puck for a power-play goal 5:32 into overtime as the Sharks rallied to level the Western Conference series 1-1. Joe Pavelski tied it for the Sharks with 31.3 seconds left in regulation and goalie Evgeni Nabokov off for an extra attacker, and Setoguchi won it with his second goal of the game with Adam Foote in the penalty box for Colorado for interference. Devils 5, Flyers 3: At Newark, New Jersey, Dainius Zubrus scored on a rebound with 4:04 to play as New Jersey beat Philadelphia to level the Eastern Conference series at 1-all. Predators 4, Blackhawks 1: At Chicago, J.P. Dumont scored twice in the final period as the Nashville Predators won for the first time on the road in the playoffs, rallying to beat the Blackhawks in the Western Conference quarterfinal opener. It was Nashville's first road playoff win in 11 attempts and it was a dramatic one with former Blackhawk Dumont burning his former team in the third. Red Wings 7, Coyotes 4: At Glendale, Arizona, Henrik Zetterberg scored three goals, including the winner with 6:06 left, as Detroit leveled the Western Conference series 1-1. Zetterberg scored the deciding goal.
