Crosby had a goal and two assists while Malkin had a pair of goals, including the game-winner just 32 seconds into the extra session.
If you'd told the undermanned Bruins before the game that they would come away with a point, they might have taken it. But not after the way they were able to play.
"I think we had enough chances to win tonight, but their last play was a perfect pass, a perfect shot. It would have been nice, but it just wasn't our luck, I guess," Dennis Seidenberg, who was back on defense for Malkin's game-winner, said.
After the B's pressured briefly on the first shift of overtime, Crosby took off on a 3-on-2 after a Reilly Smith pass went off Brad Marchand's skate. Once in the offensive zone, Crosby made a wing-to-wing pass to Malkin, who snapped a shot between goalie Tuukka Rask's pads for the win.
Both teams had opportunities to win it in regulation. First, David Pastrnak, in his NHL debut, made a slick backhand pass in the slot to Marchand, but Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who recorded his 300th win, got a stick on the puck and steered it just wide.
Late in regulation, Pittsburgh got the chance to put its top-ranked power play to work when the B's were called for too many men on the ice with 2:31 to play, but the penalty killers held strong.
Outshot 33-29, the Bruins also had two potential goals nullified. In the first period, trailing 1-0, Patrice Bergeron was awarded a goal but, after a video review officials ruled that Bergeron redirected the puck with his stick when it was over the crossbar.
The second one came in the second period with the game tied at 2. Off the rush, Loui Eriksson sent a pass to a crashing Milan Lucic. The puck bounced in the air and Carl Soderberg appeared to hit it with his glove. It may have deflected off someone else, but after the review it was disallowed because of Soderberg's swipe at the puck.
The two non-goals looked like the right calls — Soderberg conceded as much on his play. But with being victimized on many disallowed goals and quick whistles this season, the frustration is mounting for coach Claude Julien.
"When you've got to score two goals every night to get one, it's tough to win hockey games," Julien said. "We got some tough calls against us and our guys played hard right ‘til the end. Unfortunately, we didn't get that second point that I thought we deserved."
While they got back Marchand after he missed three games with an injury, the B's were still without David Krejci and Chris Kelly up front, as well as Zdeno Chara and Adam McQuaid on the back end.
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| Monday, November 24, 2014
Dicaeum flowerpeckers are small (10 to 18 cm long), often colorful birds.
Ding Li Yong, a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU), helped to confirm the new species, known as the Sulawesi Streaked Flycatcher.
"The locals knew we were there for a biological expedition and so a hunter came to us with some dead birds," Yong said on Tuesday. "We obtained these specimens and one was this new species."
"We instantly knew that it couldn't be anything else."
Dicaeum flowerpeckers have short tails, short thick curved bills and tubular tongues.
During the months of July, August and September in various years between 1999 and 2012, Dr Nicola Marples of Trinity College and his colleagues sampled individuals of a previously recognized Dicaeum species – the Grey-sided flowerpecker (Dicaeum celebicum) – from seven sites across the Wakatobi archipelago, Buton Island and the south-eastern peninsula of Sulawesi. In total, 58 flowerpeckers were mist-netted and studied.
The combined results from genetic, phylogenetic and morphological analyses indicated that flowerpeckers from a small chain of islands known as the Wakatobi Islands are a new species, named the Wakatobi flowerpecker (Dicaeum kuehni).
The genetic data also revealed that the Grey-sided flowerpecker and the Wakatobi flowerpecker did not mix or interbreed, which in turn suggests that they do not cross the 27 km stretch of ocean between them.
"Regin displays a degree of technical competence rarely seen," Symantec said in a statement Sunday, released along with a technical white paper about the malware. Indications are that Regin "is one of the main cyberespionage tools used by a nation state."
Researchers have identified its use in 10 countries, mainly Russia and Saudi Arabia, as well as Mexico, Ireland, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Belgium, Austria and Pakistan.
Regin is a back-door-type Trojan, "customizable with an extensive range of capabilities depending on the target," Symantec said, adding that "it provides its controllers with a powerful framework for mass surveillance." Its development probably took months "if not years" and "its authors have gone to great lengths to cover its tracks."
Its first incarnation was used to spy on a number of organizations from 2008 to 2011 when it was "abruptly withdrawn," with a new version showing up last year, Symantec said.
The weekend was marked by protests in the city of Ferguson, with security tight and tensions running high ahead of the grand jury's decision. Many people were expecting the grand jury to come to a decision over the weekend.
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While the jurors debate possible criminal charges against officer Darren Wilson, additional law enforcement -- including the National Guard and more than 100 FBI agents -- was stationed in Ferguson ahead of the grand jury's decision.
The Saint Louis County Police Department switched its officers to 12-hour shifts in recent days. Metal and concrete barricades have been erected in areas around the St Louis County government buildings in Clayton, Missouri, where the grand jury has been meeting. The justice center there also houses the prosecutor's office, the St. Louis County Police Department headquarters and the circuit courts.
A handful of arrests were made during the weekend. Some stores in the St. Louis suburb remain closed, with business owners boarding up windows in fear.
"We look abandoned here, pretty much imprisoned," business owner Triondus Sleet said. "It's sad."
Wilson could be charged with murder or manslaughter -- or nothing -- for the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown. If cleared, a police union rep said he should be able to return to work.
"It would be my hope though that if, one day, he decides to stay in law enforcement, that he's able to do that," said Detective Gabe Crocker, president of the St. Louis County Police Association. "Especially if he's cleared, that means he didn't do anything wrong, according to the grand jury."
President Obama, in an exclusive interview with ABC News, urged for calm no matter what decision the grand jury reaches, a sentiment also expressed by Brown's mother and father.
"Using any event as an excuse for violence is contrary to rule of law and contrary to who we are," Obama said.
Frankfurt's Xetra Dax 30 is 0.7 per cent higher after the data, having shown modest opening losses. The International FTSE Eurofirst 300 is up 0.3 per cent, with the CAC 40 in Paris up 1 per cent. London's FTSE 100 is missing out on the trend, ticking 0.1 per cent lower with its heavily weighted energy stocks holding it back.
The euro is up 0.2 per cent to $1.2411, while the pound is also 0.1 per cent higher at $1.5666. The dollar is generally a little weaker after its recent strong run higher. The dollar index, which tracks the US currency against a range of its peers, is down 0.1 per cent at 88.224.
European sovereign borrowing costs are steady, with 10-year Bunds flat at 0.77 per cent and France's equivalent debt yielding 1.11 per cent.
Brent crude is up 0.2 per cent at $80.48 per barrel, while gold is down 0.5 per cent at $1,196.35 a troy ounce.
It was a more bullish session in Asia, as traders react to the People's Bank of China's first benchmark rate cut in two years, made on Friday.
The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong climbed 1.9 per cent, while the Shanghai Composite also rose 1.9 per cent.
Sydney's S&P/ASX 200 was up 1.1 per cent, as was South Korea's Kospi Composite. Markets in Japan were closed for a holiday.
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1. Sony PS4
Reviewed on: 15 January 14
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Rating: Rated 8 out of 10
The Sony PS4 is a good looking and powerful console with fantastic hardware. We like the new DualShock controller and smooth interface. It's also cheaper than the Xbox One but a lack of killer titles mean it's probably worth hanging back for a while, grabbing after a price drop.
2. Xbox One
Reviewed on: 12 December 13
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Rating: Rated 8 out of 10
Xbox One is an imposing new entry to the range of digital entertainment gadgets and offers a glimpse of the future. While implementation leaves a lot to be desired at this early stage, many of the performance issues are likely to be software based and fixable via updates further down the line. If your aspirations are greater than traditional gaming, Xbox One might just be worth believing in.
3. Nintendo Wii U
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Rating: Rated 8 out of 10
Nintendo got the whole family into gaming with its simple and fun console, the Wii. See what we make of the highly anticipated follow-up in our Nintendo Wii U review.
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Rating: Rated 9 out of 10
As Blu-ray players go, the original PS3 was competitively priced. With a slimmer profile, lower price and lower power consumption, the PlayStation 3 Slim (120GB) is arguably the one to beat. Factor in games, social networking features such as PlayStation Home, music and custom video playback, web surfing, and picture browsing, and this may be the best-value Sony game system yet.
5. Xbox 360
Reviewed on: 2 December 05
RRP: £169 (with 60GB hard drive)
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Rating: Rated 10 out of 10
It's hard not to be impressed by the Xbox 360. With its high-def output, beautiful wireless controllers and amazing graphical prowess, it's a gamer's dream. Take into account all the additional functionality (Media Center Extender, Xbox Live Arcade, built-in Breville sandwich toaster) and it's an absolute steal. You can either buy this now, or wait for Sony to come good on its promises for PS3. I know which I'd choose.
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Mario Mario Lavanderia born and raised in Miami before coming to NYU. He said his favorite part of the experience of living in a dorm college dorm Rubin and studying abroad, namely in Madrid.
"The first year was my favorite memory only because it was all so new and there are so many firsts," said Mario. "Living with people, myself, do not have a car, and independently - it's all magic."
Since graduating in 2000, Mario has been exploring the many career paths - wrote a children's book "The Boy with Pink Hair," starred in the music video for Britney Spears and Rihanna and develop websites for current ratings of 9 million page views per day.
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Perez Hilton
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