Penguins can't hold leads over Hurricanes, lose 3-2

Pittsburgh is winless in its last five games against Carolina.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Bates Battaglia and David Tanabe scored third-period goals Saturday and the Carolina Hurricanes rallied to beat Pittsburgh 3-2, handing the Penguins their third straight loss.
Battaglia's game-winner and first of the season came from a difficult angle to the left of Jean-Sebastien Aubin with 5:37 left as Carolina twice rallied from one-goal deficits.
The Hurricanes improved to 4-0-2-1 in their last seven games while the Penguins fell to 0-3-2 in their last five against the defending Eastern Conference champions.
Carolina had to kill off more than a minute of a holding penalty to Kevyn Adams with 3:35 left against the NHL's top power-play unit to secure the win.
Exchanging goals
The teams exchanged goals 2 minutes apart early in the third.
A dump in by Mario Lemieux took a crazy bounce off the end boards and right onto the stick of Alexandre Daigle in front of Kevin Weekes.
Daigle appeared to bat the puck out of the air with a high stick past the Carolina goalie, but the goal stood after a video review.
Tanabe then tied it with a slap shot from 35 feet with Michal Rozsival off for interference. Carolina was 0-for-5 on the power play before Tanabe's second of the season.
The assist by Lemieux was his league-leading 30th point and came one game after his 11-game point streak was snapped.
Carolina trailed 1-0 after one, but evened it up midway through the second after a turnover by Pittsburgh defenseman Dick Tarnstrom.
Adams intercepted the ill-advised pass near the blue line, made a move around Tarnstrom and beat Aubin with an end-over-end shot.
Adams also assisted on Battaglia's game-winner.
The Hurricanes had a chance to take the lead 2 minutes later when Ian Moran and Ville Nieminen were called for minor penalties 6 seconds apart. But Carolina managed just two shots during its two-man advantage against the worst road penalty-killing team in the NHL.
Straka scores
Pittsburgh jumped on top first when Martin Straka, who missed 80 games the last two seasons with leg and back injures, got his first goal and first since Oct. 20, 2001. He scored on a rebound near the tail end of a 5-on-3 power play late in the first.
Pittsburgh has scored an NHL-best 19 first period goals.