NHL Straka leads Pens to 4-1 win

Mario Lemieux had assists on both Straka goals and also scored against San Jose.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Martin Straka scored twice during a four-goal second period as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the San Jose Sharks 4-1 on Saturday night.
Mario Lemieux, the NHL's leading scorer, assisted on both goals and also scored his 11th of the season as the Penguins snapped a seven-game winless streak (0-6-1) against San Jose.
Marc Bergevin also scored for Pittsburgh, which hadn't beaten the Sharks since Oct. 22, 1997.
Teemu Selanne had the lone goal for San Jose, which was playing its sixth game of an eight-game road trip and had its three-game unbeaten streak stopped.
The Penguins broke open a scoreless game by outshooting the Sharks 17-5 in the second period, scoring four goals in a span of 11 minutes, 6 seconds and knocking goaltender Evgeni Nabokov out of the game.
Gets first goal
Lemieux, who has 47 points in 13 career games against San Jose, scored the first goal at 7:06. A pass by Ville Nieminen to Straka created a two-on-one low in the San Jose zone, and Lemieux converted Straka's cross-ice pass.
The Penguins increased their lead to 3-0 with goals 1:06 apart while the teams skated four-on-four. Straka took a pass from Lemieux behind the net and beat Nabokov at 12:13 for his second goal of the season, and first in six games.
Nabokov was pulled in favor of Mikka Kiprusoff after Bergevin's wrister from the blue line floated over Nabokov's shoulder at 13:19.
Pittsburgh's top-ranked power play produced the next goal at 18:12, as Alexei Kovalev passed to Straka to create another two-one-one break. Straka used Lemieux as a decoy before scoring on a backhander.
San Jose broke up Jean-Sebastien Aubin's shutout bid at 4:16 of the third period when Selanne's backhander from the goal line bounced off Bergevin and into the net.
Notes
The Penguins scratched Randy Robitaille, Josef Melichar (shoulder) and Michal Rozsival (shoulder). San Jose scratched Todd Harvey and Shawn Heins. ... San Jose's Patrick Marleau failed to score for the first time in seven games. ... The victory was the Penguins' first at home against San Jose since Nov. 21, 1996. ... The Sharks are 2-2-1-1 on their long road trip. ... Pittsburgh's Dick Tarnstrom, the league's leading scorer among defensemen, had one assist to give him 21 points in 19 games.