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Comeau scores hat trick in Penguins' OT victory

PITTSBURGH — Blake Comeau spent his first two months in Pittsburgh getting shuffled from line to line as first-year coach Mike Johnston searched for the right fit.

Consider Comeau at home playing alongside Evgeni Malkin.

The well-traveled forward sent a slap shot past Jonathan Bernier 2:07 into overtime to complete his second career hat trick and lift the Penguins to a 4-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night.

Comeau settled a pass from Kris Letang and fired a shot from the point for his third goal of the night and eighth this season.

“I’m getting a good opportunity to play with some really good players and it feels really good to contribute offensively,” Comeau said. “Things are going well right now at the start of the season.”

Malkin added a goal and two assists, and Sidney Crosby had two assists to join Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr as the only players in team history with 800 points. Pittsburgh improved to 11-0-3 in its last 14 games against Canadian teams despite blowing an early two-goal lead.

“I made a couple of bad plays,” Crosby said. “Some of those things you’ve just got to try to forget it and go out there and keep working hard. We didn’t let it get to us. Sometimes you get frustrated and end up making more mistakes. We didn’t do that, so we gave ourselves a chance to stay in the game.”

Marc-Andre Fleury, wearing vivid gold pads to match Pittsburgh’s throwback sweaters, stopped 24 shots for his 301st win.

Leo Komarov scored twice for the Maple Leafs.

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