PITTSBURGH Penguins drop second straight to Atlanta, 4-3

Marc Savard scored the winner for the Thrashers with 3:25 to play.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Marc Savard broke a tie with a power-play goal with 3:25 to play, and Ilya Kovalchuk had two more goals to help the Atlanta Thrashers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second straight night, 4-3 on Saturday.
Hossa scored after Marian Hossa deflected Vyacheslav Kozlov's shot from the point.
League's top scorer
Kovalchuk pushed his NHL-leading goal total to 32 a night after he had three goals in Atlanta's 6-4 home victory over the Penguins.
On Friday night, Kovalchuk checked Pittsburgh rookie star Sidney Crosby from behind into the boards and Crosby was assessed a slashing penalty for retaliating. Later in the game, Kovalchuk taunted Crosby by pointing to him in the penalty box after scoring his second goal of the game.
Kovalchuk then told reporters after the game, "He takes those stupid penalties all the time. He's an 18-year-old kid and can't do this. He starts yapping about his teammates in the newspapers. ... If he wants to play tough, he can play tough... He's not Mario Lemieux yet."
Four more penalties
Crosby didn't do much to help his reputation by taking four penalties Saturday -- including a diving minor late in the second period that led to an unsportsmanlike conduct call when he gestured to referee Stephane Auger from the penalty box.
The Thrashers did not score on that power play, but did while Crosby was serving his first penalty, for hooking. Kovalchuk scored his second of the game by blasting a slap shot off of Marc-Andre Fleury's pads so hard that the rebound came out to him again at the top of the left circle. He made sure he put his second shot -- which was just as hard as the first -- past Fleury to give Atlanta a 2-1 lead.
Kovalchuk, who was booed by the Mellon Arena crowd every time he touched the puck or was announced, also opened the scoring when he slammed home a goal into a mostly-open net past Fleury from the left faceoff circle.