Pittsburgh and Ottawa are fourth in the Eastern Conference standings.

Pittsburgh and Ottawa are fourth in the Eastern Conference standings.
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Jarkko Ruutu had the only goal in the shootout and the Pittsburgh Penguins tied the Ottawa Senators for fourth place in the Eastern Conference playoff race with a 4-3 win Sunday night.
The victory gives each team 92 points, with Ottawa having one more victory and the Penguins holding a game in hand.
Using his backhand, Ruutu tucked the puck past Ottawa goalie Ray Emery as the second Penguins shooter in the shootout.
Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury stopped Mike Comrie, Dean McAmmond and Antoine Vermette to improve to 9-5 in shootouts this season.
Pittsburgh was on its way to its fifth win in a row, holding a 3-2 lead with a two-man advantage with seven minutes left. But after killing off 56 seconds of a Pittsburgh 5-on-3, the Senators got a holding the stick penalty called on Malkin.
After playing 65 seconds 4-on-4, Wade Redden scored his seventh goal of the season a second after the power play began.
Five in a row
Sidney Crosby and Ryan Whitney had a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who have won five in a row.
Daniel Alfredsson and Vermette also scored for the Senators, who are 4-0-4 in their past eight and 12-1-5 in their past 18.
Pittsburgh's Maxime Talbot scored the game's first goal 10:44 into the first period off a short-handed rush that featured precise passing by Colby Armstrong and Sergei Gonchar to feed Talbot for his 11th goal of the season. The Senators tied the game 26 seconds later when Vermette scored his 18th on assists from Chris Kelly and Chris Neil.
Crosby had a power-play goal four minutes into the second when he corralled a pass from Whitney that may have been intended for Mark Recchi, turned it over to his backhand and beat Emery for his 32nd of the season.
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