Talbot's Goal Helps Penguins Take 2-0 Lead on Flyers

Sidney Crosby and Marian Hossa also scored and Jordan Staal added an empty-net goal in the final minute as Pittsburgh came back to win after twice squandering one-goal leads.

Pittsburgh won the first two games at home for the third consecutive series, with Game 3 set for Tuesday night in Philadelphia. The Flyers won each of their first two playoff rounds after losing Game 1, but this is the first time they also lost Game 2 on the road.

The Penguins' game-winner came from its fourth line, and by a player who had missed the previous three games with a broken right foot.

Gary Roberts, who turns 42 later this month, carried the puck behind the net, and defenseman Derian Hatcher went with him, leaving Talbot open in front of the net. Roberts put a backhander onto his stick for Talbot's second playoff goal, at 8:51 of the third.

Fitting that a player known as Mad Max scored the game winner in a peculiar game in which an apparent Pittsburgh goal didn't count and the Flyers scored short-handed and on the power play but couldn't score at even strength. And Crosby, one of the NHL's biggest stars, scored only his third power-play goal in 5 1/2 months.

Philadelphia, desperately trying to avoid going down two games against a team with Pittsburgh's speed and talent, tied it at 2 when Mike Richards intercepted Evgeni Malkin's risky cross-ice pass on a power, got loose on a breakaway and beat Marc-Andre Fleury with a wrist shot with 24 seconds remaining in the second period. Despite allowing the goal, Fleury played another strong game by making 30 saves.

At the time, the Penguins were pressing for a two-goal lead after Hossa's power-play goal at 13:43 of the second made it 2-1. Hossa scored nine seconds into Hatcher's interference penalty on Malkin. Hatcher also was off, for crosschecking, on Richards' goal - Flyers' second short-handed goal in 14 playoff games and the first allowed by Pittsburgh in 11 games.

Crosby went six games without a goal before getting one in the Penguins' 4-2 victory in Game 1, then put them up 1-0 with a power play goal midway through the first period - only the second game in 41 dating to Nov. 24 that Crosby scored with a man advantage.