Ward charged in, with Perreault, and made a hard move on defenseman Michael Del Zotto.
Rangers, Callahan 14 (Richards, Del Zotto), 5:13 (pp). 5, New Jersey, Loktionov 8 (Kovalchuk, Harrold), 13:30.
Brian Boyle then deflected in Michael Del Zotto's drive to make it 4-2 with 2:52 remaining.
Taylor Pyatt and Michael Del Zotto made it 3-0 early in the second on goals 2:10 apart.
"Inconsistency, " said defenseman Michael Del Zotto, who plays the point on one of the team's power-play units.
Truth be told, Del Zotto was kind to use that word to describe the Rangers' power play.
New York was also without injured defensemen Ryan McDonagh and Michael Del Zotto, along with forward Arron Asham.
The Rangers were without injured forwards Rick Nash, Arron Asham and Darroll Powe, and defenseman Michael Del Zotto.
New York defenseman Michael Del Zotto elbowed Pittsburgh forward James Neal in the face, sending Neal sprawling to the ice.
Del Zotto quickly found Stepan with a diagonal pass to the left post, where Stepan scored while down on a knee.
New York paid for a penalty early in the first period after defenseman Michael Del Zotto went to the box for cross-checking at 1:46.
The Rangers earned the power play when Michael Del Zotto was hauled down as he crashed in on Islanders goalie Evgeni Nabokov 21 seconds into overtime.
Del Zotto tried to kick the puck to the corner, but it went to Zajac's stick in the right circle for his first goal in 11 games.
Through the Rangers' first two rounds last year, a pair of grueling seven-game series, Tortorella seemed content to play Girardi, McDonagh, Staal and Del Zotto until they dropped.
"The game last night meant nothing if we didn't follow up with two points again tonight, " Del Zotto said, referring to New York's 2-1 shootout win over Carolina on Monday.
Ward got Del Zotto down to the ice near the left post and feathered a pass through the crease to Perreault, who tied up Richards and slid in his first career playoff goal.
Nash's goal might have been one of the mistakes by Hedberg, who helped set up Del Zotto's third goal of the season by playing the puck near his bench on a power play.
Shortly after Kovalchuk banged a power-play shot off the post, Del Zotto swatted a shoulder-high pass from the corner by Derek Stepan into the net at 11:49 for New York's third short-handed goal of the season.
Nash had a chance to score off a Michael Del Zotto rebound midway through the first, but Penguins defenseman Deryk Engelland was able to get a body on him before goalie Tomas Vokoun covered the puck.
And when forward Taylor Pyatt and defenseman Michael Del Zotto scored 2 minutes, 10 seconds apart early in the second period, bulging the Rangers' lead to 3-0, the outcome felt inevitable, given the way Lundqvist was playing.
Brad Richards, benched for all but one shift in the third period of the Rangers' shootout loss to the Islanders on Thursday, won a faceoff and then made a pass to Michael Del Zotto in the right circle.
Michael Del Zotto scored a short-handed goal and set up Rick Nash's game winner to lead the Rangers to a 3-2 win over the Devils on Tuesday night, moving them into a tie with New Jersey for eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
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