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Pens lose Crosby, but win shootout

PITTSBURGH — The Penguins keep losing high-profile players and keep winning games. It’s not ideal, but they’ll take it — for now at least.

Jake Guentzel and Jared McCann scored in a shootout and the Penguins ended a 10-game losing streak against the Chicago Blackhawks by rallying for a 3-2 victory Saturday night despite captain Sidney Crosby leaving in the third period with a lower-body injury.

The Penguins were already playing without Kris Letang and Patric Hornqvist when Crosby gingerly made his way off the ice early in the third and did not return.

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