The Pittsburgh Penguins center is one win away from captaining his team to its second Stanley Cup in a row, and third during his career.
After dropping the first two games of the series in Pittsburgh, the Predators tied the Stanley Cup Final at two games apiece with a pair of dominant victories in Nashville. "They doing all the little things, I think, that don't necessarily show up on the score sheet, or you can't necessarily quantify in a statistic, but those little things add up to helping a team win games". But regardless, it's hard to ignore just how many goals have found their way past the 34-year-old in the three games at PPG Paints Arena: 11 on just 45 shots for a.756 save percentage. He was especially locked in during Game 4 when the Penguins dialled up their attack.
Sidney Crosby put on a show in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final, but his brilliant night was overshadowed by some out-of-character behaviour. We've got to focus on giving ourselves an opportunity to come back (to Pittsburgh) for Game 7.
"I think P.K. has played against some pretty tough players in the playoffs to get to this point", Predators coach Peter Laviolette said. Fans stayed loud throughout the first period, but slowly began clearing out once the team was down 6-0. There were two strong back-to-back stops, in particular, on James Neal shortly after Bryan Rust scored the second Pittsburgh goal. "We know we're going to play our best hockey and we're going to come back with an even better performance". "He made a handful tonight that we needed, and we believe he'll do that".
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The franchise has won all four of its Cups on the road. He's 8-1 in the post-season after a loss. Rinne gave way to Juuse Saros at the start of the second period after stopping just six of nine shots, continuing his wildly uneven play.
Murray was on the ice early for practice on Wednesday afternoon, working through an array of standard drills - some puck-handling, some shots from in tight - alongside Marc-Andre Fleury and goalie coach Mike Bales.
Outside of the crowd offering motivation and energy, none of the players really saw a big difference in the way the games had been played but searched nonetheless for small nuances. He was unconcerned with noise on the outside with regard to Fleury potentially regaining the reigns.
"I see the numbers, but if the number is not 100 per cent, or guaranteed, then it doesn't matter to me", said Rust. "What people are going to say is what people are going to say". We just have to do a better job in front of him.
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