Crosby scores 2 to lift Penguins to 3-2 win in Game 3
PITTSBURGH (AP) -The Penguins are 0-for-The Joe but downright perfect at home.
After two shutout losses to the Red Wings in Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, Sidney Crosby scored Pittsburgh’s first two goals of the Stanley Cup finals and carried the Penguins to a 3-2 victory [...]
Osgood blanks Pens again; Red Wings halfway to Cup
DETROIT (AP) -If the Red Wings keep this up, the next time they perform back in Hockeytown could be along a parade route.
Producing timely offense and perfectionist defense, Detroit is not only beating the Pittsburgh Penguins, they are shutting them out.
With first-period goals from Brad Stuart and [...]
Samuelsson, Red Wings beat Penguins in Cup opener.
Penguins rout Flyers 6-0 for Stanley Cup trip
PITTSBURGH (AP) -Sid and The Kids are off to the Stanley Cup finals, thanks to a dominating run by a younger-than-young Pittsburgh Penguins team that has taken only two seasons to transform itself from one of the NHL’s worst to one of its best.
Ryan Malone, the one Penguins [...]
Flyers stay alive, force Game 5 back in Pittsburgh
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -A fast start by the Philadelphia Flyers gave way to a very nervous ending.
When it was over, they were still alive and happily facing what many figured was an unlikely return trip to Pittsburgh.
Joffrey Lupul scored the first of Philadelphia’s three first-period goals Thursday night [...]
Penguins move to brink of Cup finals with 4-1 win
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Ryan Whitney’s wide smile told several stories.
He and the Pittsburgh Penguins are one win away from the Stanley Cup finals, and the path was paved by his goal that was three months in the making. Quick strikes by Whitney and Marian Hossa raised the [...]
Talbot’s game-winner pushes Penguins past Flyers 4-2
PITTSBURGH (AP) -Losing on an Evgeni Malkin goal, or Sidney Crosby goal, the Philadelphia Flyers might understand.
Losing to the Pittsburgh Penguins on fourth-line forward Max Talbot’s goal will be very difficult for the Flyers to deal with, especially in a series that is fast slipping away from them.
Talbot, a [...]
Malkin’s 2 goals lead flyin’ Penguins past Flyers, 4-2
PITTSBURGH (AP) -Evgeni Malkin scored two dazzling goals 5 minutes apart to give Pittsburgh a two-goal lead, after Sidney Crosby tied it, and the Penguins rode their two big stars to a 4-2 victory over cross-state rival Philadelphia in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals Friday [...]
Hossa’s OT goal gives Penguins 3-2 win, ends Rangers season
PITTSBURGH (AP) -So much for the talk a team as young as the Pittsburgh Penguins couldn’t advance this far in the playoffs. So much for the speculation Marian Hossa couldn’t score big postseason goals.
So much for the New York Rangers, too, whose decided edge in experience [...]
Jagr and Lundqvist keep Rangers alive in 3-0 win over Pens
NEW YORK (AP) -Jaromir Jagr didn’t get the chance to celebrate his goal because the New York Rangers captain was flattened just as he shot.
After a season-saving 3-0 victory over Pittsburgh on Thursday night, no one could stop him from applauding the adoring Madison Square [...]