Kunitz, Malkin propel Pens

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Evgeni Malkin took advantage of a couple of favorable bounces to score a goal and set up one of Chris Kunitz’s two goals and the Pittsburgh Penguins bounced back from a pair of road losses to beat the New York Islanders 3-1 on Wednesday night.

With Kunitz scoring his first two goals since Dec. 29, the Penguins shook off a 5-4 loss Sunday to Washington in which they couldn’t hold a 4-1 lead to win their seventh in a row at home against the Islanders. New York lost its eighth in nine games as Marc-Andre Fleury turned aside 37 of 38 shots.

Story appears in Thursday’s edition.