The debate will rage on about whether they've always been the superior team in this postseason's Stanley Cup Final, their second in as many years. I know it ends up on the ice but I wouldn't start throwing water bottles at this point.
The defending champions provided an emphatic and repeated reminder of what makes them such a hard out in a 6-0 demolition of the Nashville Predators in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to take a 3-2 lead. Pittsburgh will have a chance to become the first franchise to win back-to-back championships since Detroit in 1998 when the series shifts back to Nashville for Game 6 on Sunday night.
Crosby, who finished the game with three assists, said it was accident after the game. We need to play a better game.
Nashville head coach Peter Laviolette met the media after the game and said his team didn't play well but left little doubt that the Preds will be prepared for Game 6. Part of that is being better in front of Rinne. The Penguins chased Pekka Rinne with a three-goal barrage in the first period and kept it going against backup Juuse Saros to push the Predators to the brink of elimination for the first time during their run to the final.
The altercation happened in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup finals, which the Pittsburgh Penguins dominated with a 6-0 score.
"I made a gesture and it came flying out of my hand", Crosby said. I don't even know what he did, P.K.
Say what you will about the Pittsburgh Penguins captain and the diplomatic immunity he seems to have been granted from the National Hockey League, you can not argue with the impact he is having on a series that looked it was slipping from Pittsburgh's grasp.
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. 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 no Kris Letangs back here", Schultz said. But hey, we always knew that superstar treatment was real.
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"One thing we got going early on was we kind of broke the puck out as a group together", Hainsey said. The Penguins captain was a force to be reckoned with all postseason, but he saved his truly special game for the biggest stage.
And he calls Stanley Cup overtime hockey the craziest thing anyone will ever see, just one reason why he loves the sport.
Crosby and Nashville's P.K. Subban got in a tangle on the ice behind the Penguins net late in the first, with Crosby bouncing Subban's helmeted head off the ice.
The referees were occupied with action on the other end of the ice and didn't seem to notice or ignored Crosby keeping Subban down for so long.
"Our guys will be ready", Laviolette said in his postgame press conference.
All four of Pittsburgh's Stanley Cups have been clinched on the road with Chicago the last team to win the Cup on home ice back in 2015. Rinne has stopped just 34 of the 45 pucks that have come his way during seven forgettable periods at PPG Paints Arena.
Asked twice Tuesday if he planned on reevaluating his goaltending situation after Matt Murray allowed eight goals in Nashville, Sullivan stressed "we haven't lost games because of our goaltending". We saw that past year when Crosby, Malkin and Kessel played on separate lines, something that made defending against the Penguins so hard.
If Crosby, 29, wins that trophy, he will match the two that Penguins owner and iconic Hall of Fame center Mario Lemieux won.
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