Pittsburgh, PA (Sports Network) - Evgeni Malkin scored a pair of goals and added an assist to join the 100-point club and the Pittsburgh Penguins leapt over the New Jersey Devils for first place in the Atlantic Division with a 7-1 win at Mellon Arena.

Ryan Malone scored a pair of goals while Petr Sykora added a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who won for the fifth time in their last six games.

Malkin now has 102 points on the season, which trails Washington's Alexander Ovechkin by four points for the top spot in the league.

Marc-Andre Fleury made 24 saves in the win for Pittsburgh, which now has 93 points and is two ahead of New Jersey for first in the division. Also, Pittsburgh is just one point behind Montreal for first overall in the Eastern Conference.

"When you play against a team like the Devils, that can play really well defensively like they do, you don't expect a third period like we had tonight, said Pittsburgh coach Michel Therrien. "They played last night so fatigue may have been a factor.I am really excited about scoring seven goals against a team like this."

Brian Gionta scored the lone goal while Martin Brodeur was charged with four goals on 19 shots before being lifted in the third period for the Devils, who have dropped their last three games and with 91 points sit two ahead of Ottawa for fourth place in the conference.

"I think this is a big wake-up call," said Brodeur. "We have to step-up our game to the level the competition is doing to us in the last few games."

These teams will meet again in New Jersey on Tuesday.

Holding a 2-1 lead to start the final stanza, Pittsburgh exploded for five goals in the frame to turn the contest into a rout.

Malone got things started with his second goal of the game on the power play just three minutes in. Marian Hossa sent a wrister from the high slot that Malone redirected into the net for his 26th goal of the season.

Pascal Dupuis made it a 4-1 contest just 1:51 later as he swept the puck into the net from the right side to chase Brodeur from the ice for Kevin Weekes.

Malkin got his 100th point of the season with a power-play goal as his wrist shot from the right circle found its way through the pads of Weekes at the 8:24 mark.

Less than three minutes later, Malkin made it a 6-1 contest as he picked up a loose puck in the slot and fired a quick wrister into the back of the net.

Sykora completed the scoring in the game with 1:42 left on his 27th goal of the season.

The Penguins grabbed a 1-0 lead just 1:30 into the game. Darryl Sydor skated the puck into the zone and from the high slot dished it over to the left side. Hossa wasted no time with the puck and sent a quick pass to Jarkko Ruutu, who redirected the puck into the net from the slot.

The Devils, though, tied the game at the 9:04 mark of the first. Skating shorthanded, John Madden lifted a high pass to the slot where Gionta knocked it out of mid-air past Fleury.

Pittsburgh took a 2-1 lead with the only goal of the second period. While shorthanded, the Penguins skated into the New Jersey end on a 2-on-1 break and Dupuis sent a pass from the right circle to the left where Malone redirected the puck past Brodeur with 3:46 left in the frame.

Fleury stopped seven shots in the second period.