The stage was won by Spain's Marc Coma, France's Cyril Despres retaining the overall bike lead.
James Neal staked Pittsburgh to an early lead, and Simon Despres and Brandon Sutter extended it.
In addition to Crosby, the Penguins scratched forwards Dustin Jeffrey and Joe Vitale, and D Simon Despres.
Despres now leads Como by two minutes 28 seconds in the overall standings.
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Simon Despres scored on a breakaway a few minutes later and the Penguins put the clamps down the rest of the way.
Last year's winner, Cyril Despres of France, who is bidding for a fifth Dakar crown, finished fifth on his KTM, 13 seconds back.
Defending motorcycle champion Marc Coma sealed the 20th stage win of his Dakar Rally career as rival Cyril Despres got stuck in the mud.
Despres spent ten minutes trying to extricate himself from a patch of mud and cut a frustrated figure at the end of the stage.
The Penguins were being outshot 23-10 at the time of Despres' goal with 4 minutes left in the middle period that made it 2-0.
Boyes briefly got the Islanders back into it when Pittsburgh defenseman Simon Despres slipped trying to clear the puck, allowing Boyes to come in alone.
Frenchman Cyril Despres finished seventh on the stage, over four minutes in arrears, but retains the overall lead with just three stages of the race remaining.
Another Frenchman, Cyril Despres, extended his lead to 2:22 over fellow-KTM rider and defending champion Marc Coma in the motorcycle section, after his fourth stage victory.
In the motorbike classification, Cyril Despres won stage nine to return to the top of the overall standings in his seesaw battle with Spain's Mark Como.
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Despres came home 1:39 ahead of Gerard Farres Guell, with Coma back in third place, although the gap is still comparatively small with three stages still remaining.
Evgeni Malkin got the Penguins on the board in his first shift when he took a pass from defenseman Simon Despres and sent it past Lundqvist just 1:24 into the first frame.
Bylsma's biggest change was inserting Vokoun in place of Fleury, but he also scratched defenseman Mark Eaton and forwards Jussi Jokinen and Tanner Glass in favor of younger, quicker skaters Simon Despres, Joe Vitale and Kennedy.
On the bikes, Frenchman Cyril Despres finished seventh, 8mins 18secs off the pace, but remains at the top of the overall standings, 16 minutes ahead of Spain's Marc Coma and 20mins 39secs ahead of Alfie Cox of South Africa.
Despres, whose main pre-race rival for the title Spaniard Marc Coma saw his chances disappear last weekend when he was penalized six hours for illegally changing a tire, has a lead of one hour, 20 minutes over Norwegian Pal Ullevalseter.
There were positive moments, like when Rangers defenseman Anton Stralman rifled a slap shot off of Vokoun and then the post, but the Penguins ultimately recovered the rebound and sent the puck up ice, where Despres converted the breakaway for Pittsburgh's third goal of the night.
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