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Sidney Crosby appeared to put the Pittsburgh Penguins on their way to an easy road win â until the Winnipeg Jets took back their rink.

The Jets shrugged off an early two-goal deficit to beat the Penguins 4-2 on Friday for their first home win of the season.

Captain Andrew Ladd scored the winner in the second period, while Evander Kane, Dustin Byfuglien and Blake Wheeler, with a late empty-net goal, also scored for the Jets.

"I thought the leadership really did a wonderful job in handling the game," said coach Claude Noel, who has been preaching a tighter defensive style.

It didn't start all that well, after Crosby put on a scoring clinic in the first with two goals to give the Penguins (2-2-0) the lead.

"We didn't manage the puck very well," said Noel. "They forced us quickly to play a quick north and south game and we turned a lot of pucks over."

Winnipeg (2-1-1) benefited from the great saves from goaltender Ondrej Pavelec, and Crosby said he wasn't happy with the way the Penguins performed after the first.

"We got some good chances, put a couple in," said Crosby. "On the road, with a 2-0 lead in the first, that's a pretty good position to be in. . . . I think we got away from the way we were playing and they just stuck with things.

"They kept playing the same way, didn't make a lot of mistakes and ended up capitalizing on ours."

The sellout crowd was loud as the Jets shot for their first home win of the season, but Crosby silenced them at just 4:26.

He raised one past netminder Pavelec's right shoulder on the short side, grazing the post and slipping through a gap that looked too small for a puck to fit.

A little more than 10 minutes later he skated in front of the net and finessed a soft backhander past Pavelec and Winnipeg defenceman Dustin Byfuglien before either knew what happened. It was Crosby's third goal of the early season.

But it was all Jets in the second, as Kane re-ignited crowd again just over a minute in on a pass from Wheeler and Byfuglien, right in front of Penguins netminder Tomas Vokoun.

Byfuglien evened things up as he slammed one in from the blue-line after a little back and forth with partner Tobias Enstrom, taking advantage of a holding penalty against Evgeni Malkin.

Ladd then put the Jets ahead for good from the right faceoff circle on a quick pass from linemate Bryan Little at 17:54.

Pavelec credited avoiding penalties â the Jets took just one â as a big part of the Winnipeg win.

"It was one of the biggest keys in this game," he said. "Crosby or Malkin, if you put those guys on the power play, it's going to be a long night for you. I think we did a great job to stay disciplined and to play five on five."

Noel gave Pavelec full marks for his part in stopping some pretty great shots.

"I thought Pavelec was outstanding in the second period," said Noel. "We took some big steps in feeling good about ourselves."

But he said they can't be too pleased just yet. Their next game is Sunday when the New York Islanders visit.

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What I learned on my summer vacation

The first blush of summer: Restaurants need to add more roses onto their wines lists during the hot months. (Tim Carman/The Washington Post) Some lessons are more painful than others, like the one about hydration in extreme heat. Let me tell you, the concrete-and-steel radiator that is New York can be unforgiving to those who try to survive on the usual coffee-only morning routine as the mercury pushes into triple digits. Coffee is not just for closers; it’s for cold, cold offices, far away from Manhattan’s griddlelike sidewalks in summer. I feel faint just recounting the episode.

Other lessons I took home from my week in the Big Apple and upstate New York:

* Don’t try to eat late in Manhattan’s Financial District, even on the weekend. You’ll end up at a Marriott sports bar, staring at old movies and ESPN, while passing around plates of calamari. Conversations will be as fractured as the food.

* The bomboloni at Sullivan Street Bakery in Hell’s Kitchen might be the perfect breakfast pastry: light, fluffy, not cloyingly sweet, and, if you want, with seasonal fruit filling piped inside. Best of all, it’s small, no larger than a Parker House roll (and just as airy). Unless you order them in blocks of four, like sliders at White Castle, you can keep the calorie count down.

Heat treatment: Don't let the oppressive temperatures steer you away from the pleasures of radishes dusted with freshly cracked black pepper. (Tim Carman/The Washington Post) * Excessive heat is sometimes a good thing: The spicy radishes I ordered at Terroir on the Porch — the patio outpost on the High Line — were dusted with freshly cracked black pepper, adding another level of piquancy to the dish. Heat, after all, is not some element fixed to a certain thermonuclear temperature; it can be applied in layers that are detectable and delightful to the tongue.

* Restaurants need to offer seasonal wine menus. Too many lists are stagnant, particularly during the warmer months when heavy reds are about as appealing as a cup of hot cocoa in a sauna. I’d love to see a much wider selection of roses during the summer.

* With that said, the best rose I sampled was the 2011 Parusso at Il Pesce inside Eataly. The nebbiolo-based wine tasted like fresh strawberries in liquid form.(See photo above.)

Bone-in octopus: The fusilli with red wine-braised octopus at Marea comes with a sauce made rich with bone marrow. (Tim Carman/The Washington Post) * The new surf and turf: At two separate meals — one at Michael White’s Marea near Central Park and the other at David Chang’s Ma Peche in Midtown — I ordered a seafood dish (red wine-braised octopus at Marea, striped bass at Ma Peche) that came with a sauce or broth thickened with bone marrow. Both dishes were, in a word, spectacular.

* At more than 100 miles away, Hudson, N.Y., has become a defacto suburb of Manhattan. The latest evidence: Two former chefs from wd~50 have opened a modernist restaurant, The Crimson Sparrow, in the town of 6,700 residents.

* The latest evidence that Hudson has not become a suburb of Manhattan: The Crimson Sparrow is open for dinner Wednesdays through Saturdays only.

White Castle sliders: Best served with beer. Lots and lots of beer. (Tim Carman/The Washington Post) * Drunk food is, and always will be, just drunk food. A visit to a White Castle on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel proved, once and for all, what a lecherous old troll my palate becomes after a few drinks. It’ll let anything slide down its throat, including greasy little burgers that, when assessed while dead sober, will sit in your stomach like spoonfuls of Crisco eaten straight from the can.

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Seasonal wine lists, radishes with freshly cracked pepper and other observations from a week away from the desk.