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Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 23 shots to break a tie for Pittsburgh's career shutout record with 23, and the host Penguins beat the New York Rangers, 3-0, on Saturday for their eighth straight win. Pittsburgh has won seven consecutive meetings with New York, which lost for the fourth time in its last five games. The Rangers, the best team in the Eastern Conference last spring, trail Pittsburgh by 14 points with six weeks left in the regular season.   Canadiens edge Devils Big defenseman Jarred Tinordi, in his NHL debut, set up Tomas Plekanec's tiebreaking goal in the third period, and the visiting Montreal Canadiens extended their winning streak to five games with a 2-1 victory over the New Jersey Devils.

A 53-year-old former champion won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance. Mitch Seavey and 10 dogs crossed the Nome finish line to cheering crowds at 10:39 p.m. Alaska time Tuesday. "This is for all of the gentlemen of a certain age," he said after completing the race in temperatures just above zero. His time in the 1,000-mile race was 9 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes.   SOCCER: The United States women's team won the Algarve Cup for the ninth time, beating Germany, 2-0, in the final Wednesday in Faro, Portugal.

Do the names Celilia Beaux or Violet Oakley ring a bell? How about Faith Ringgold, an artist renown for her painted quilt series and who used her art to portray the civil rights movement from a female perspective? If you want to know more, the Haverford Township Free Library will hosted a program A Room of Her Own: Women in American Art. Dressler Smith, of the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts will lead a discussion on pioneering 19th century women artists. Smith will show how the political and cultural change in American history "both inspired and challenged women artisits.

Brandon Sutter scored twice in the final seven minutes to cap a furious rally and the host Pittsburgh Penguins slipped past the Boston Bruins, 3-2, on Tuesday night. Chris Kunitz started Pittsburgh's third-period surge with his 18th goal of the season and Sutter beat Boston's Anton Khudobin twice in less than four minutes, including the game-winner with 2 minutes, 3 seconds remaining. In the East: Marcus Foligno scored twice and backup goalie Jhonas Enroth made 18 of his 32 saves in the third period of the host Buffalo Sabres' 3-1 win over the New York Rangers.

The host Chicago Blackhawks set a franchise record with their 10th consecutive victory and extended their points streak to 29 games with a 5-3 win against the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night. Bryan Bickell scored twice in the first period and Patrick Kane added a big goal in the third as Chicago (20-0-3) remained the only team in the NHL without a regulation loss. It also snapped a tie with the 1977-78 Montreal Canadiens for the second-longest points streak in league history. Elsewhere: Eric Fehr scored 37 seconds into overtime and the host Washington Capitals rallied from a three-goal, first-period deficit to beat the Boston Bruins, 4-3. . . . Radek Martinek scored the tiebreaking goal eight minutes into the third period and the host New York Islanders handed Montreal its first regulation loss in nearly a month with a 6-3 victory.

THE TALK-RADIO AUDIENCE was becoming "too old, too white, too male and too angry" for syndicated host Michael Smerconish . On Wednesday, he announced that he's leaving terrestrial radio - including local affiliate 1210 WPHT - and heading for SiriusXM, where he'll appear on the nonpartisan POTUS station. The "Michael Smerconish Program," as it will be called, will begin April 15 and run weekdays from 9 a.m. to noon. A rep from WPHT says that Smerconish has no official end date at his home station but that the station wishes him the best.

Jaimee Swift said she feels like suicide is plaguing her community. As a senior at Temple University, she said the university has lost several students and alumni over the last few years due to suicide. When she lost a classmate in 2010, Swift said it got her thinking. "One minute they're sitting right next to you and then they're not," she said. "If you had known, what would you have done? What would you have said to them?" Swift said during her time at Temple she was saddened by the deaths of two alumni and one student.

Stricter drug penalties? Wait till next year. On Saturday, commissioner Bud Selig held a news conference and put on his ermine mantle of leadership to say he wanted increased punishments for cheaters as soon as humanly possible, if not sooner. On Sunday, players union head Michael Weiner said increasing penalties for drug violations would not happen until 2014. "We're not going to change the rules of the game in the middle of the season," Weiner said. "In a sense, the drug-testing season started with spring training.

Brandon Sutter's second goal of the game 52 seconds into overtime lifted the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins to a wild 7-6 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night. Sutter took a pass from Simon Despres on a rush, stepped around Max Pacioretty, and beat goalie Carey Price with a high shot to help Pittsburgh end a two-game skid and avoid being swept on a three-game road trip.   'Canes top Southeast Jussi Jokinen scored twice and added an assist as the host Carolina Hurricanes beat the Florida Panthers, 6-2, to move into sole possession of first place in the Southeast Division.

The Chicago Blackhawks extended their NHL-record, season-opening points streak to 22 games on Sunday. Patrick Kane scored the tying goal on a power play with 2 minutes, 2 seconds left in regulation and had the only goal in a shootout, lifting Chicago to a 2-1 win over the host Detroit Red Wings. Corey Crawford was perfect in the shootout and finished with 32 saves. The Blackhawks have earned at least a point in 28 straight games - dating to a March 25, 2012, loss in regulation to Nashville - to tie the second-longest streak in league history.