The Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday rebounded by shaking off a Game 5 home loss to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5-2 and force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference playoff series.
The Penguins, who were facing elimination for the first time in the post-season after back-to-back losses, got goals from five different players in Game 6 and 30 saves from rookie goaltender Matt Murray.
“It was not pretty, but it is good that we got the win,” Murray said. “We dominated through the first two periods. They came back in the third, but we battled through it. We weathered the storm and got it done.”
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Star forward Sidney Crosby led the offense with two points, including the eventual winning goal late in the second period.
Phil Kessel, with his ninth of the playoffs, defenseman Kris Letang, Bryan Rust and Nick Bonino, into an empty net, also scored for the Penguins, who went back to goaltender Murray on Tuesday.
The Penguins are back on their home ice today — where Tampa Bay have won two of three games in this series — with the winner advancing to the Stanley Cup finals.
Rust yesterday scored a breakaway goal with 2 minutes, 8 seconds remaining and Bonino added an empty-netter with 53 seconds left to pull away.
Crosby made it 3-0, scoring with just 25 seconds left in the second as he weaved past two Lightning players and then shot the puck through the legs of goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy for his sixth goal of the post-season. Murray started the first four games of the series before being replaced by veteran Marc-Andre Fleury in the third period of Game 4. Fleury started Game 5, which the Lightning won 4-3 in overtime.
“I just tried to play my heart out and stay in the moment,” Murray said. “They had a lot of traffic in front of the net. A couple of them I was just able to pick out at the very last second.”
Brian Boyle scored both goals for the Lightning, who are seeking to reach their second straight Stanley Cup finals.
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