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Carter and Smith score late as Penguins pull away from Blue Jackets 5-3 to end 3-game skid

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Carter and Reilly Smith scored just over a minute apart midway through the third period and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 on Tuesday night to snap a three-game losing streak.

The Blue Jackets tied it earlier in the period on a short-handed goal by Jack Roslovic before Carter and Smith beat rookie goaltender Jet Greaves to give the Penguins some breathing room.

Rickard Rakell turned a fluky redirect for his ninth goal of the season, Evgeni Malkin collected his 18th and Jesse Puljujarvi added his first for the Penguins. Ryan Graves had two assists. Smith added a pair of assists to cross the career 500-point mark.

Tristan Jarry stopped 34 shots as Pittsburgh bounced back from a nightmarish western road trip by improving to 10-0-1 in its last 11 meetings with Columbus.

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