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Jake Guentzel scored twice to push his playoff total to a league-leading 10 , Matt Murray stopped 20 shots and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 3-1 in Game 4 to even their tense Eastern Conference semifinal on Thursday night.

Evgeni Malkin added his fourth goal of the playoffs for Pittsburgh as the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions pushed back following a chaotic Game 3 that included an illegal hit by Washington forward Tom Wilson that led to a three-game suspension.

T.J. Oshie scored for the Capitals, but Washington struggled to find much operating room. Alex Ovechkin failed to register a shot on goal for just the third time in 107 career playoff games. Braden Holtby finished with 21 saves but couldn’t quite get a handle on Malkin’s belly-flop shot attempt late in the second period that put Pittsburgh in front to stay.

Game 5 is Saturday night in Washington.

PREDATORS 2, JETS 1

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) – Pekka Rinne made 32 saves, P.K. Subban and Ryan Hartman scored and Nashville stifled Winnipeg’s high-powered offense to even their second-round series through four games.

Patrik Laine scored off a faceoff in the final minute , but Nashville’s Nick Bonino won two key faceoffs after that to end it.

Game 5 will be Saturday in Nashville, with Game 6 set for Winnipeg on Monday. Game 7, if necessary, would be in Nashville next Thursday.

Connor Hellebuyck stopped 27 shots, but Nashville snapped Winnipeg’s 13-game home winning streak , which dated to March 2.

Rinne allowed five goals amid a series of defensive miscues in a 7-4 Game 3 defeat. He rebounded impressively behind a team that was much sharper in its own end.

Oakland traded Khalil Mack to Chicago on Saturday, and the Bears promptly made Mack the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL. That’s something the Raiders weren’t going to do.

Raiders head coach Jon Gruden said today that the Raiders did make Mack an offer, but it was not even in the same ballpark as the enormous deal he signed with the Bears.

鈥淚 don鈥檛 believe we were anywhere close to where the Bears were,” Gruden said. “He got a great contract from the Bears. A great contract. You know, $90 million guaranteed is an astronomical number , it’s phenomenal for the players, great for him obviously. But that was something we could not do.”

Gruden didn’t think it was realistic to make Mack the highest-paid defensive player in the NFL after paying quarterback Derek Carr so much.

“You’ve got to field a 53-man roster and there are some implications of having two players making that much,” Gruden said.

Gruden said getting the Bears’ 2019 and 2020 first-round draft picks could be huge for the Raiders in the future.

“Two first-round draft choices is a lot of compensation that we have to do something with,” Gruden said.

If Gruden doesn’t do something with those picks, his trade will be second-guessed forever.