Sidney Crosby set up three goals as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 Saturday, the final regular season game in Mellon Arena between the longtime rivals. Pascal Dupuis, Chris Kunitz, Ruslan Fedotenko and Matt Cooke scored for the Penguins. Scoring more than three goals for the first time in 10 games, the Stanley Cup champions ended a three-game losing streak and clinched a berth in the Eastern Conference playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The Flyers generated little offense and lost their fifth in a row and seventh in eight games. Coyotes 6, Avalanche 2: At Glendale, Arizona, the Phoenix Coyotes, the surprise team of the NHL, celebrated their first playoff berth since 2002 with a big win over Colorado Avalanche. The Coyotes, still owned by the league after going through protracted bankruptcy proceedings last summer, clinched the postseason spot earlier in the day when Calgary lost to Boston. Four of Phoenix's goals came from players who joined the team at the March 3 trade deadline - Lee Stempniak, Wojtek Wolski and Derek Morris. Red Wings 1, Predators 0, SO: At Nashville, Niklas Kronwall, in his first career shootout try, scored the winning goal in the 11th round to give Detroit a win. Jimmy Howard stopped nine of Nashville's 10 shootout attempts to make Kronwall's goal stand up as the winner. Detroit has won five straight and eight of nine to move into a more solid playoff position. The Red Wings jumped out of eighth place in the tightly packed Western Conference race. Nashville lost for just the second time in nine games. The fifth-place Predators are only one point ahead of the surging Red Wings. Elsewhere it was: Sharks 4, Canucks 2; Stars 4, Kings 1; Bruins 5, Flames 0; Devils 4, Canadiens 2; Sabres 7, Lightning 1; Maple Leafs 3, Rangers 2, OT; Thrashers 4, Hurricanes 0; Senators 3, Panthers 2; Islanders 4, Blue Jackets 3, OT.
