So don't expect much in the way of changes from the Nashville Predators coming off a rousing 5-1 win in Game 3.
The Penguins have strung this thing together with string for a while and now they only need to win two more games, just two.
For Sunday's game, the city will have three giant screens on Broadway.
It's now a best-of-three sprint to hockey's Holy Grail, and Nashville is riding a wave of momentum after outscoring the defending champions 9-2 over the past two games.
The Predators employed the same strategy after dropping Games 1 and 2 in Pittsburgh to open the series. The 22-year-old has added 13 more goals during the postseason and is one short of the National Hockey League playoff rookie record that has stood since 1981. "He's been a huge part of our success".
Rinne finished the game with 23 saves at better than 95 percent. "It's a great feeling". Nashville was 2 of 3 on the power play in Game 3.
Pittsburgh responded 66 seconds later when Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the series, breaking in alone and using a nifty deke to beat Rinne.
A season ago, the Penguins controlled play often enough in the playoffs to shrug if they encountered a game with bad breaks.
Sullivan said Tuesday goaltending was not to blame for the team's two losses to the Predators. We thought we played a real competitive game in Game 2.
Charles Barkley has taken advantage of a day off in the NBA Finals and accepted NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman's invitation to come watch the Stanley Cup Final in person.
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Police estimated more than 50,000 turned out for the first Stanley Cup Final game in Tennessee on Saturday night. The puck just crossed the goal line under the outstretched sick of Pittsburgh goalie Matt Murray before he shoved it away.
The catfish toss is second to none as far as greatest tradition right now, as the rally fish has sparked a fire in a fan base and is also probably what Sydney Crosby smells rather than PK Subban's breath (after Crosby reportedly made a rude comment on the ice about the Preds defender). Goalie Matt Murray lost consecutive games for the first time in his young career.
Crosby has now passed Mike Bossy, Gordie Howe, Al MacInnis and Bobby Smith for 20th in all-time playoff points. With Rinne's no-look left pad stop on Jake Guentzel early in the second period of a tie game on Monday night?
Gaudreau tallied his third goal of the series Monday while playing just his sixth Stanley Cup Playoffs game. Jarnkrok's second goal of the post season gave the Preds a 1-0 lead late in the opening period.
"I heard it on the bench that it was possibly in the net", Gaudreau said.
All-Star defenseman P.K. Subban briefly left the ice after Evgeni Malkin's shot hit his left leg with 7:08 remaining.
"It's a game of execution", Crosby said. They're trying to help us along that offensive blueline.
Arvidsson made it a 3-1 Nashville lead with his first goal since the end of the first round. But it was the assists from Fisher and James Neal that created the chance. As I've said all along here, they're not ideal by any stretch. But it was the diving flick by Fisher that really allowed the goal to happen.
"It just comes down to burying your chances", said Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, who picked up his first goal of the series in Game 4.
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