More trouble for the Pittsburgh Penguins: Leading 2-0 on Saturday, a team fighting to retain its place in the Stanley Cup playoffs blew a 2-0 lead in a 5-3 road lo s to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Rather than get a chance to move up from a wild-card berth and po sible meeting with the Montreal Canadiens, the Pens fell victim to a hot team. Saturday saw the Jackets win their franchise-record ninth consecutive game. Nick Foligno had a hat trick, his first in Robin Lopez Jersey 541 career games. Pittsburgh is on a 3-7-1 slide with four games left in its regular season. MORE: | | We made some mistakes, captain Sidney Crosby said. That's going to happen. You're going to make mistakes sometimes. "But we've still got to put together a full game. We had a letdown for a couple minutes and it's a tie game. We get through that and it's a different hockey game. "We didn't get desperate until we got down a couple goals. We've got to understand that's got to be the way to play." At 95 points, they could slip into the second and last wild-card berth and a potential first-round series against the New York Rangers. Three of those games are away from home. And while its a long shot the Pens will be pa sed by the Ottawa Senators for the Eastern Conference's final playoff berth, injuries and lo ses won't help them prepare for the playoffs. Ottawa has a game in hand on the Pens. Crosby, who leads the NHL with 81 points, got his 27th goal. The Penguins face the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday. Isaac Bonga Jersey