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ainst average and a .945 save percentage. He gave up no more than two goals in each of his last four starts.The Penguins, howe
ainst average and a .945 save percentage. He gave up no more than two goals in each of his last four starts.The Penguins, howe
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PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins are blessed with not one but two goalies who have won the Stanley Cup in the last seven seasons. Not surprisingly, coach Mike Sullivan has declined to designate one or the other as the starter.As well as Matt Murray is playing, and as uncharacteristically poorly as Marc-Andre Fleury is playing, Sullivan might have no choice but to soon give a majority of the starts to Murray.For the second time in five days, Fleury was worked over Friday in a blowout loss. He gave up an opening-minute goal to Charlie Coyle of Minnesota -- one of Coyles two goals in the first period -- and the Wild went on to the second dominant win over the Penguins in as many games this season, a 6-2 decision that, at times, didnt look to be that close.Usually that doesnt faze us, Fleury said of giving up a quick, early goal. Were a good enough team to come back.Only this time they werent. While Sullivan suggested his teammates didnt give Fleury much help, its all but certain that Murray -- off to a 6-1 start this season -- will get the call when the Penguins (12-6-3) return home Saturday night to play the New Jersey Devils (10-6-4) at PPG Paints Arena.The Devils are off to a solid start, and are looking like a potential playoff team as the quarter pole of their season approaches despite a 5-4 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Detroit defenseman Mike Greene scored the game-winning goal with 1:42 remaining in overtime, beating goalie Cory Schneider, who made 28 saves.With both teams playing on back-to-back nights, its likely that the Devils will turn to backup goalie Keith Kincaid (2-1-1) on Saturday night.Well take the point and hope to be better (Saturday) for sure, said Devils coach John Hynes, who, like Sullivan, once coached the Penguins top farm club in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.Sullivan is parceling out goalie starts carefully, trying to make sure both Murray -- who won the Cup for him as a rookie last season -- and Fleury remain sharp and get regular work.But the more each goalie plays, the more disparate their statistics become. The Penguins have lost eight of the 14 starts made by Fleury (6-5-3), who has a 3.38 goals-against average and a .901 save percentage. Fleury has permitted three or more goals in six of his last seven starts.We werent a lot of help to him, captain Sidney Crosby said after the Wild scored on three of four power-play opportunities. We gave them some good really scoring chances. Not just your typical scoring chances but some really good looks. And we cant allow that to happen.Murray, by contrast, is 6-1 with a 1.57 goals-against average and a .945 save percentage. He gave up no more than two goals in each of his last four starts.The Penguins, however, have given up 11 goals in Fleurys last two starts, including a 5-2 loss to the New York Rangers on home ice Monday night, Sullivan wouldnt fault his goalie following a second successive loss to Minnesota, who also beat the Penguins 4-2 in Pittsburgh on Nov. 10.I thought we put him in a tough spot, Sullivan said of Fleury, who was in net for the Penguins Cup run in 2009. The goals they got, they got grade A scoring chances. The type of saves he had to make were high quality. So I think we put him in a lot of the circumstances.Still, Fleury said, Its frustrating to give up that many goals. There were a few I should have stopped.Sullivan seems more concerned with the overall unpredictable play of his entire team than he is any lack of steadiness by Fleury. The Penguins followed up that Monday night loss by beating up on the Rangers 6-1 Wednesday at Madison Square Garden, only to look unready to play against the Wild despite a Thanksgiving Day practice in Minnesota.Its hard for me to explain it, Sullivan said. If I could explain it, I could probably solve it. Its been something that is part of our game for the first 20 games.Two former Penguins players -- defenseman Ben Lovejoy and forward Beau Bennett -- will be with the Devils as the teams meet for the first time this season. Former Penguins general manager Ray Shero, who helped assemble that 2009 Penguins Cup team, now has the same job in New Jersey. 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Bruce Sutter Jersey .B. - Sebastien Auger made 44 saves as the Saint John Sea Dogs edged the visiting Acadie-Bathurst Titan 2-1 on Saturday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.India reduced England to 103-5 in response to their first-innings 455 to take control of the second Test on day two in Visakhapatnam. Joe Root (53) hit fifty, but holed out long-off to a Ravichandran Ashwin delivery; a superfluous shot and a wicket symptomatic of an erratic final session from the visitors where they lost four wickets for 29 runs in a 15-over spell. Alastair Cooks off-stump is broken in two by a jubilant Mohammad Shami on day two in Visakhapatnam After Alastair Cook was dismissed before tea - his stumps broken by Mohammed Shami - Hasseb Hameed (13) was needlessly run-out, Ben Ducketts flaws against off-spin were again exposed, and Moeen Ali fell lbw on review.England had earlier done well to dismiss their hosts for 455, with Virat Kohli (167) adding only 16 runs to his overnight score.Moeen impressed with three wickets, including that of Kohli - Ben Stokes taking the catch at slip after putting down Ashwin on 17, a ball earlier.Ashwin (58) kicked on through to an eighth Test fifty, and then took 2-20 with the ball as England struggled through to stumps on a pitch that is now starting to crack up.India, resuming the day on 317-4, breezed through the first hours play unscathed, with England unable to find the same swing with the second new ball that was there the previous evening.Eventually, England turned to spin, and Moeen (3-98) made immediate inroads, with the wicket of Kohli in his second over, and the strikes of Wriddhiman Saha (3) and Ravindra Jadeja (0) lbw in his fourth, although Jadeja would have survived had he opted to review. Ben Stokes drops Ravichandran Ashwin on 17, who went on tto score fifty for India Ashwin and Jayant Yadav (35), on debut, rallied the innings with their 64-run stand for the eighth wicket either side of lunch, though soon after Ashwin reached his half-century, Stokes (1-73) atoned for his earlier error at slip and picked him up caught behind.dddddddddddddil Rashid (2-110) then took two well-deserved wickets to end the innings, with Jayant Yadav top-edging an attempted slog-sweep, and Umesh Yadav (13) picking out the man at deep midwicket.Cook fell in the third over of Englands reply, bowled by a beauty from Shami (1-15) that split his off-stump in half, though Hameed and Root dug in and stuck it out till tea. Watch the best of the action from Day Two of the Second Test in Visakhapatnam But Hameeds run out - courtesy of some terrific work in the deep from Jayant Yadav and a fantastic flick onto the stumps from Saha - early in the final session, signalled a big momentum shift in the match.A jubilant Indian outfit made further inroads on a pitch that seems now to be offering considerable turn for the spinners, and variable bounce for the seamers.Duckett (5) again showed too much off his stumps to the off-spin of Ashwin and was beaten, bowled, while Roots dismissal would have been the most disappointing - a miscued drive over the top picking out the man at long-off. Ravichandran Ashwin celebrates the wicket of Ben Duckett, one of two he picked up in the evening session on day two Jayant Yadav (1-11) then picked up a wicket with just his eighth delivery in Test cricket, Moeen falling lbw on review after initially being given not out by the umpire.Stokes (12no) and Jonny Bairstow (12no) safely negotiated the final 14.4 overs in the day, though India were convinced they had the former out caught behind off Jadeja, and wasted a review, with replays showing there was no edge.Live coverage of the second Test between India and England from Visakhapatnam continues with day three, on Sky Sports 2 from 3.45am on Saturday. ' ' '
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