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2016 EAST QUARTER-FINAL

1 MET WASHINGTON CAPITALS 120 v. WC 2 PHILADELPHIA FLYERS 96 GM BRIAN MacLELLAN, HC BARRY TROTZ v. GM RON HEXTALL, HC DAVE HAKSTOL

CAPITALS WIN SERIES IN 6

Thursday, April 14 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN Hughson, Simpson, Healy

PHILADELPHIA 0 @ WASHINGTON 2

FIRST PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― Carlson W 3:30, Orpik W 7:50, Orpik W 14:14

SECOND PERIOD

1. WASHINGTON, John Carlson 1 (Marcus Johansson, Nicklas Backstrom) 16:21 PPG

Penalties ― Streit P 2:57, Orlov W 8:50, White P 13:28, Manning P 16:02

THIRD PERIOD 2. WASHINGTON, Jay Beagle 1 (Marcus Johansson) 16:36

Penalties ― Flyers’ bench (served by White) 2:30, Gagner P (double minor) 5:28, Simmonds P Wilson W (minors,

majors) 13:09, Gostisbehere P Burakovsky W 14:29, White P (minor, 10-minute misconduct) Voracek P Beagle W Alzner W 20:00

Shots on goal by

FLYERS 11 4 4 19 CAPITALS 8 14 9 31

PHILADELPHIA, Steve Mason; WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby

Power play: PHI ― 0 for 4, WSH ― 1 for 6

Referees: Marc Joannette, Steve Kozari Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 18 506 at Verizon Center

G Braden Holtby WSH, D John Carlson WSH, LW Marcus Johansson WSH game’s three stars

Before game, moment of silence was observed for Flyers’ founder Ed Snider (d. 11 April 2016) F Sean Couturier PHI took a hit from Alex Ovechkin in second pd…did not return (left shoulder)

Monday, April 18 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

WASHINGTON 6 @ PHILADELPHIA 1

FIRST PERIOD

1. PHILADELPHIA, Michael Raffl 1 (Brandon Manning, Sam Gagner) 0:57 2. WASHINGTON, Marcus Johansson 1 (John Carlson, Nicklas Backstrom) 4:43 PPG

Penalties ― Simmonds P 4:28, Raffl P 11:17, Chimera W 13:45, Richards W 19:52

SECOND PERIOD 3. WASHINGTON, Alex Ovechkin 2 (Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie) 8:50 GWG

Penalties ― Gudas P 2:48, Winnik W 10:43, Richards W Simmonds P 11:32, Kuznetsov W 18:30, Schenn P 20:00

THIRD PERIOD

4. WASHINGTON, Evgeny Kuznetsov 1 (Justin Williams, Braden Holtby) 1:58 PPG 5. WASHINGTON, John Carlson 3 (Alex Ovechkin, Justin Williams) 7:37 PPG

6. WASHINGTON, Alex Ovechkin 3 (John Carlson, T.J. Oshie) 14:58 PPG 7. WASHINGTON, Jay Beagle 2 (Schmidt, Orlov) 18:20 PPG

Penalties ― Oshie W Streit P 6:04, Gudas P 6:35, Alzner W 9:42, Bellemare P (major, 10-minute misconduct)

Gudas P White P (10-minute misconduct) 12:17, Gagner P 14:58, Read P 16:21

Shots on goal by CAPITALS 7 7 13 27

FLYERS 11 12 9 32 WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby; PHILADELPHIA, Steve Mason

Power play: WSH ― 5 for 9 8 for 17 in series, PHI ― 0 for 5 0 for 13 in series

Referees: Brad Meier, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Matt MacPherson, Brian Murphy 19 678 at Wells Fargo Center

D John Carlson WSH, LW Alex Ovechkin WSH, C Nicklas Backstrom WSH game’s three stars

Capitals lead a SCP series 3-0 for first time in their history The Flyers held a pregame ceremony to honour founding owner and chairman Ed Snider,

who died April 11. Game 3 was Philadelphia's first home game since his death. After a video celebrating Snider's life and a moment of silence, anthemist Lauren Hart sang "God Bless America"

with a video of Kate Smith singing from the 1970s. Hart was wearing a No. 67 Flyers jersey with Snider's name on the back.

Alex Ovechkin WSH has 74 pts in 75 career SCP games…passing Dale Hunter for Caps’ record

Friday, April 22 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN



Penalties ― Schenn P Oshie W (majors) 0:10, Williams W (double minor) 1:08, Gudas P 5:45, Williams W 12:05,

Schultz P Chimera W 17:33

SECOND PERIOD 1. PHILADELPHIA, Ryan White 1 (Sam Gagner, Mark Streit) 7:52 GWG

Penalties ― Johansson W 2:46, Gostisbehere P 3:41, Williams W 5:49

THIRD PERIOD

2. PHILADELPHIA, Chris VandeVelde 1 (Pierre-Edouard Bellemare) 19:29 ENG

Penalties ― Chimera W 6:51, White P 9:40

Shots on goal by FLYERS 6 2 3 11

CAPITALS 14 16 14 44 PHILADELPHIA, Michal Neuvirth; WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby

Power play: PHI ― 0 for 6 1 for 21 in series, WSH ― 0 for 3 8 for 22 in series

Referees: Frederick L’Ecuyer, Brad Watson Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Mark Shewchyk 18 506 at Verizon Center

G Michal Neuvirth PHI, LW Alex Ovechkin WSH, D Karl Alzner WSH game’s three stars

"I like to face a lot of shots," G Michal Neuvirth PHI said. "It keeps me in the game. I enjoy it. Guys did a really good job in front of me. I was seeing the puck well. We didn't take any

bad penalties, and we stuck to our system and big win for us." "He's always very calm in the net," Flyers’ forward Jakub Voracek said of Neuvirth. "Again,

he showed it today. The last two games he's been outstanding and given us the chance to win the game, and here we are going back home when nobody expected it."

Saturday, April 16 1900 h et on HNIC, CNBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. WASHINGTON, John Carlson 2 (Nicklas Backstrom, Marcus Johansson) 14:09 PPG

Penalties ― Manning P 13:32, Chimera W 16:06, Carlson W 16:59, Gudas P Chimera W 20:00

SECOND PERIOD

2. WASHINGTON, Jason Chimera 1 (Karl Alzner, Matt Niskanen) 2:26 GWG 3. PHILADELPHIA, Jakub Voracek 1 (Brayden Schenn, Shayne Gostisbehere) 9:37

4. WASHINGTON, Alex Ovechkin 1 (Nicklas Backstrom, Marcus Johansson) 17:21 PPG

Penalties ― Cousins P Burakovsky W 8:50, Oshie W 10:09, Streit P 16:42

THIRD PERIOD

5. WASHINGTON, Nicklas Backstrom 1 (T.J. Oshie, John Carlson) 17:47

Penalties ― Wilson W 19:55

Shots on goal by FLYERS 19 12 11 42

CAPITALS 5 13 5 23

PHILADELPHIA, Steve Mason; WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby

Power play: PHI ― 0 for 4 0 for 8 in series, WSH ― 2 for 2 3 for 8 in series

Referees: Dave Jackson, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 18 506 at Verizon Center

G Braden Holtby WSH, C Nicklas Backstrom WSH, D John Carlson WSH game’s three stars

Jason Chimera’s goal was a tip, from centre ice, of an outlet pass that went through Mason’s legs "If you score one goal in two games, you don't win many games," Jakub Voracek PHI said.

"Holtby was good; I'll give him credit for that. We've got to dig in and get some bounces at home."

Wednesday, April 20 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. PHILADELPHIA, Shayne Gostisbehere 1 (Claude Giroux, Wayne Simmonds) 5:51 PPG

Penalties ― Chorney W 5:03

SECOND PERIOD

2. PHILADELPHIA, Andrew MacDonald 1 (Wayne Simmonds, Brayden Schenn) 3:51 GWG

Penalties ― Gagner P 14:31, Backstrom W 17:48, Voracek P 18:16

THIRD PERIOD 3. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie 1 (Matt Niskanen, Karl Alzner) 2:38

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

CAPITALS 10 9 13 32 FLYERS 12 9 4 25

WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby; PHILADELPHIA, Michael Neuvirth

Power play: WSH ― 0 for 2 8 for 19 in series, PHI ― 1 for 2 1 for 15 in series Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Brad Kovachik

19 692 at Wells Fargo Center

G Michal Neuvirth PHI, D Shayne Gostisbehere PHI, RW Wayne Simmonds PHI game’s three stars "I felt a little rusty early during the game," G Michal Neuvirth PHI said. "The guys did such a

good job in front of me. I was just finding my rhythm. I think from the second period I was feeling really good. Just really happy with the effort tonight."

Flyers’ forward Scott Laughton was removed from the ice on a stretcher with 3:49 remaining in the first period after falling into the boards behind the Capitals' goal

Sunday, April 24 1200 h et on HNIC, NBC



Penalties ― Giroux P 13:18, Simmonds P 18:13, MacDonald P 19:03

SECOND PERIOD

1. WASHINGTON, Nicklas Backstrom 2 (Marcus Johansson, Alex Ovechkin) 8:59 GWG

Penalties ― Backstrom W 4:25, Niskanen W 4:30, White P 6:55

THIRD PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― Gagner P 1:23

Shots on goal by

CAPITALS 12 11 6 29 FLYERS 5 10 11 26

WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby; PHILADELPHIA, Michal Neuvirth

Power play: WSH ― 0 for 5 8 for 27 in series, PHI ― 0 for 3 1 for 24 in series Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Ian Walsh Linesmen: David Brisebois, Pierre Racicot

19 925 at Wells Fargo Center

C Nicklas Backstrom WSH, G Michal Neuvirth PHI, G Braden Holtby WSH game’s three stars G Braden Holtby WSH wins his 20th SCP game for Capitals, tying Olaf Kolzig’s team record

Backstrom’s goal ended G Michal Neuvirth’s shutout streak at 108:22 G Braden Holtby WSH had a 0.68 GAA and .968 sv pct in series

C Nicklas Backstrom WSH led all series scorers with 5 assists and 7 points



2016 EAST QUARTER-FINAL

1 ATL FLORIDA PANTHERS 103 v. WC 1 NEW YORK ISLANDERS 100 GM DALE TALLON, HC GERARD GALLANT v. GM GARTH SNOW, HC DAVE CAPUANO

ISLANDERS WIN SERIES IN 6

Thursday, April 14 2000 h et on Sportsnet, CNBC

NEW YORK 5 @ FLORIDA 4

FIRST PERIOD 1. FLORIDA, Teddy Purcell 1 (Jiri Hudler, Dmitry Kulikov) 1:55

2. NEW YORK, Brock Nelson 1 (Ryan Strome) 6:39 3. FLORIDA, Jussi Jokinen 1 (Brian Campbell, Reilly Smith) 13:51 PPG

4. NEW YORK, Frans Nielsen 1 (John Tavares, Nick Leddy) 16:46 PPG

Penalties ― Okposo N 2:59, Clutterbuck N (double minor) Huberdeau F 13:04, Gudbranson F 14:57

SECOND PERIOD

5. FLORIDA, Reilly Smith 1 (Alex Petrovic, Jussi Jokinen) 1:31 6. NEW YORK, John Tavares 1 (Kyle Okposo, Frans Nielsen) 19:38

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD 7. NEW YORK, Kyle Okposo 1 (John Tavares) 2:33

8. NEW YORK, Ryan Strome 1 (Alan Quine, Travis Hamonic) 6:01 GWG 9. FLORIDA, Reilly Smith 2 (Jussi Jokinen, Nick Bjugstad) 6:56

Penalties ― Martin N 8:01, Jokinen F 16:56

Shots on goal by ISLANDERS 12 8 6 26

PANTHERS 16 14 16 46 NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss; FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo

Power play: NYI ― 1 for 2, FLA ― 1 for 3

Referees: Dave Jackson, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Tim Nowak 17 422 at BB&T Center

C John Tavares NYI, RW Reilly Smith FLA, RW Kyle Okposo NYI game’s three stars F Jaromir Jagr FLA, 44 yrs old, played in his 203rd career Stanley Cup Playoff game

"I thought our defensive game was bad," Panthers coach Gerard Gallant said. "Some of the pucks were great shots, so I'm not going to blame [Roberto]. [Roberto] has been our key guy all

year long. I just thought when you're giving guys opportunities from the slot like they had and they buried them. Those goals were nice goals, top-shelf goals, breakaway goals. We just weren't

lucky enough tonight and we gave them Grade A chances. They didn't have a whole bunch of chances, but their chances were Grade A."

Sunday, April 17 2000 h et on Sportsnet, NBCSN

FLORIDA 3 @ NEW YORK 4 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

1. FLORIDA, Reilly Smith 4 (Alex Petrovic, Michael Matheson) 2:25

Penalties ― McKegg F Clutterbuck N 8:32, Hudler F 10:19, Martin N 18:58

SECOND PERIOD 2. FLORIDA, Aleksander Barkov 1 (Reilly Smith, Jonathan Huberdeau) 1:11

3. NEW YORK, Ryan Pulock 1 (Kyle Okposo, John Tavares) 5:21 PPG 4. FLORIDA, Nick Bjugstad 2 (Reilly Smith, Dmitry Kulikov) 7:23

5. NEW YORK, Shane Prince 1 (Ryan Pulock, Calvin de Haan) 11:48 6. NEW YORK, Frans Nielsen 2 (John Tavares, Kyle Okposo) 16:55 PPG

Penalties ― Petrovic F 4:43, Jokinen F 5:08, Kulikov F 16:12, Cizikas N 18:32

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Hamonic N 4:38

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD

7. NEW YORK, Thomas Hickey 1 (Brock Nelson, Josh Bailey) 12:31 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by PANTHERS 12 12 7 8 39

ISLANDERS 8 16 7 8 39 FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo; NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss

Power play: FLA ― 0 for 3 1 for 7 in series, NYI ― 2 for 4 3 for 9 in series

Referees: Chris Rooney, Francois St. Laurent Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Mark Shewchyk 15 795 at Barclays Center

D Thomas Hickey NYI, RW Reilly Smith FLA, D Ryan Pulock NYI game’s three stars

First-ever Stanley Cup Playoff game at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn F John Tavares NYI had his six-game goal streak ended tonight

Friday, April 22 2000 h et on Sportsnet, CNBC

NEW YORK 2 @ FLORIDA 1 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. NEW YORK, Frans Nielsen 3 (Thomas Hickey) 13:31

Penalties ― Bjugstad F 2:53, Huberdeau F 16:40

SECOND PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― Panthers’ bench (served by Purcell) 16:31, Tavares N 17:28

THIRD PERIOD

2. FLORIDA, Aleksander Barkov 2 (Alex Petrovic, Jaromir Jagr) 1:59

Penalties ― None


NO SCORING

Penalties ― de Haan N 7:19 (resulted in a penalty shot)

SECOND OVERTIME PERIOD

3. NEW YORK, Alan Quine 1 (Marek Zidlicky, Thomas Hickey) 16:00 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Jagr F 5:06, MacKenzie F 14:31

Shots on goal by

ISLANDERS 11 7 6 12 6 42 PANTHERS 10 14 6 11 7 48

NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss; FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo

Power play: NYI ― 1 for 5 5 for 18 in series, FLA ― 0 for 1 2 for 12 in series Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Ian Walsh Linesmen: Matt MacPherson, Brian Murphy

20 247 at BB&T Center

G Thomas Greiss NYI, G Roberto Luongo FLA, C Alan Quine NYI game’s three stars

G Thomas Greiss NYI stopped Aleksander Barkov FLA on penalty-shot attempt in overtime

After D Calvin de Haan NYI covered the puck in the Islanders’ crease…it was the third overtime penalty shot in SCP history (’96 Juneau WSH v. Wregget PIT, ’98 Morozov PIT v. Moog MTL)…

all three were stopped by the goaltenders Islanders won a Game 5 for the first time since 1987, snapping a streak of 11 defeats…team

that wins Game 5 in a series tied 2-2 is 189-52 (78.4 percent), according to Elias Sports Bureau Second-longest game in Islanders SCP history (Easter Epic in 1987)

Friday, April 15 1930 h et on SN360, NHLN

NEW YORK 1 @ FLORIDA 3

FIRST PERIOD 1. FLORIDA, Reilly Smith 3 (Nick Bjugstad, Jonathan Huberdeau) 4:32

Penalties ― Grimaldi F 6:19, Wilson F 14:21

SECOND PERIOD

2. FLORIDA, Nick Bjugstad 1 (Reilly Smith, Dmitry Kulikov) 6:17 GWG

Penalties ― Cizikas N (double minor) Clutterbuck N Martin N MacKenzie F Thornton F Wilson F 18:33

THIRD PERIOD

3. NEW YORK, John Tavares 2 (Nick Leddy, Kyle Okposo) 16:27 4. FLORIDA, Dmitry Kulikov 1 (Aleksander Barkov) 19:50 ENG

Penalties ― Petrovic F 4:13

Shots on goal by

ISLANDERS 11 16 15 42 PANTHERS 13 10 8 31

NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss; FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo

Power play: NYI ― 0 for 3 1 for 5 in series, FLA ― 0 for 1 1 for 4 in series Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Bryan Pancich

18 373 at BB&T Center

G Roberto Luongo FLA, RW Reilly Smith FLA, C Nick Bjugstad FLA game’s three stars "The last two years I had this guy in nets and he's one of the best goalies in the League in my

opinion," Panthers’ coach Gerard Gallant said of Luongo. "We knew he was going to bounce back tonight. I don't think he was bad last night. I just think they made some great shots.

Tonight he was outstanding and that's what we expected." F Jaromir Jagr FLA has now played 33 consecutive SCP games without a goal

Wednesday, April 20 2000 h et on Sportsnet, USA

FLORIDA 2 @ NEW YORK 1

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Cizikas N 2:04, Huberdeau F 6:06

SECOND PERIOD 1. FLORIDA, Teddy Purcell 2 (Jaromir Jagr, Aaron Ekblad) 15:18 PPG

2. NEW YORK, John Tavares 3 (Ryan Pulock, Brock Nelson) 19:44 PPG

Penalties ― Martin N 14:03, Barkov F 17:43, Kulikov F 19:04

THIRD PERIOD 3. FLORIDA, Alex Petrovic 1 (Derek MacKenzie, Garrett Wilson) 9:25 GWG

Penalties ― Nelson N 4:26, de Haan N 12:20, Huberdeau F 16:27

Shots on goal by

PANTHERS 10 11 8 29 ISLANDERS 5 12 10 27

FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo; NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss


Referees: Frederik L’Ecuyer, Brad Watson Linesmen: Matt MacPherson, Brian Murphy 15 795 at Barclays Center

D Alex Petrovic FLA, G Thomas Greiss NYI, RW Teddy Purcell FLA game’s three stars

F Jaromir Jagr FLA recorded his 200th career SCP point…putting him fifth all time Islanders have not won consecutive SCP games since G3 and G4 v. Maple Leafs in 2002

Sunday, April 24 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN Randorf, Galley

FLORIDA 1 @ NEW YORK 2 DBL OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

1. FLORIDA, Jonathan Huberdeau 1 (Vincent Trocheck, Jussi Jokinen) 18:58

Penalties ― Jagr F 13:29


Penalties ― Kulemin N 10:22, Okposo N 17:26, Hudler F 17:35

THIRD PERIOD

2. NEW YORK, John Tavares 4 (Nikolay Kulemin, Nick Leddy) 19:06

Penalties ― Hickey N 9:11, Huberdeau F 112:37

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― None


3. NEW YORK, John Tavares 5 (Kyle Okposo, Alan Quine) 10:41 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by PANTHERS 5 12 13 8 4 42

ISLANDERS 7 10 15 15 4 51 FLORIDA, Roberto Luongo; NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss


Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Chris Lee Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Mark Shewchyk 15 795 at Barclays Center

C John Tavares NYI, G Thomas Greiss NYI, D Nick Leddy NYI game’s three stars

Islanders win their first Stanley Cup Playoff series since 1993 v. Penguins Islanders are first team to win consecutive SCP multi-overtime games since 1991 Oilers

"You can't even really process it," John Tavares NYI said. "I'm glad it went in because my leg

starting cramping in that pile. I'm glad I didn't have to skate back down. It was obviously just amazing to look around and just see all the orange and blue. Just incredible."



2016 ATLANTIC QUARTER-FINAL 2 ATL TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 97 v. 3 ATL DETROIT RED WINGS 93

GM STEVE YZERMAN, HC JON COOPER v. GM KEN HOLLAND, HC JEFF BLASHILL

LIGHTNING WIN SERIES IN 5

Wednesday, April 13 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN Cole, Galley

DETROIT 2 @ TAMPA BAY 3

FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 1 (Tyler Johnson, Alex Killorn) 6:23

Penalties ― Sustr T 10:47, Kronwall D 11:12, DeKeyser D 19:50, Boyle T 20:00

SECOND PERIOD

2. DETROIT, Mike Green 1 (Danny DeKeyser, Tomas Tatar) 2:11 3. DETROIT, Justin Abdelkader 1 (Kyle Quincey) 4:07

4. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 2 (Braydon Coburn, Nikita Nesterov) 9:29

Penalties ― Drouin T 6:34, Larkin D Helm D DeKeyser D Killorn T Coburn T (double minor) 11:42, Garrison T 13:49, Abdelkader D 15:32

THIRD PERIOD

5. TAMPA BAY, Alex Killorn 1 (Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov) 8:52 GWG

Penalties ― Drouin T 2:50, Abdelkader D 11:42, Abdelkader D Palat T 19:49, Zetterberg D 20:00

Shots on goal by RED WINGS 13 13 10 36

LIGHTNING 8 12 14 34 DETROIT, Jimmy Howard; TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop

Power play: DET ― 0 for 5, TB ― 0 for 4 Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Bryan Pancich

19 092 at Amalie Arena

Nikita Kucherov TB, Tyler Johnson TB, Alex Killorn TB game’s three stars NHL has installed new cameras at blue lines for SCP to aid linesmen with offside calls

Red Wings in SCP for 25th straight year…tied for third longest streak in NHL history

Sunday, April 17 1900 h et on HNIC, CNBC

TAMPA BAY 0 @ DETROIT 2

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Coburn T Helm D 4:34, Johnson T 14:32, Palat T 15:33

SECOND PERIOD

1. DETROIT, Andreas Athanasiou 1 (Tomas Tatar, Andersson) 12:42 GWG 2. DETROIT, Henrik Zetterberg 1 (unassisted) 17:22

Penalties ― Sustr T 5:26, Hedman T 7:37, Zetterberg D 18:52

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Kucherov T Helm D 0:58, Kronwall D 2:23, Johnson T 3:20, Killorn T 5:47, Datsyuk D 14:20, Coburn T 17:43, Boyle T Killorn T Abelkader D (10-minute misconducts) Carle T 20:00

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 9 3 4 16 RED WINGS 12 11 7 30

TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop; DETROIT, Petr Mrazek

Power play: TB ― 0 for 3 1 for 14 in series, DET ― 0 for 7 1 for 17 in series Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Derek Amell, Tim Nowak

20 027 at Joe Louis Arena

C Luke Glendening DET, C Andreas Athanasiou DET, G Petr Mrazek DET game’s three stars Red Wings went 11-3-1 at Joe Louis Arena since NHL All-Star break

G Petr Mrazek DET had this third career SCP shutout ~ all have been against Lightning

Thursday, April 21 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN



Penalties ― Lightning bench (served by Drouin) 3:41, Garrison T 4:27, Nyquist D 9:06, Kronwall D 19:21

SECOND PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Larkin D 2:53, Quincey D 9:47, Hedman T 14:01

THIRD PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Alex Killorn 3 (Ryan Callahan) 18:17 GWG

Penalties ― Garrison T 19:16

Shots on goal by

RED WINGS 9 14 11 34 LIGHTNING 8 6 10 24

DETROIT, Petr Mrazek (1.36 GAA, .945 sv pct in series); TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop (1.61, .950)

Power play: DET ― 0 for 4 1 for 25 in series, TB ― 0 for 4 4 for 23 in series

Referees: Brad Meier, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: David Brisbois, Pierre Racicot 19 092 at Amalie Arena

G Ben Bishop TB, G Petr Mrazek DET, C Alex Killorn TB game’s three stars

Very likely final NHL game for Red Wings’ superstar Pavel Datsyuk…held without a point in series F Steven Stamkos TB has been out of Lightning line-up since being diagnosed with thoracic outlet

syndrome (nerve issue in shoulder) on 2 April 2016 F Nikita Kucherov TB led all players in series with 5g and 8 pts

Friday, April 15 1900 h et on HNIC, CNBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 3 (Victor Hedman, Tyler Johnson) 15:17 PPG

Penalties ― Killorn T 2:00, Quincey D 11:11, Nyquist D 14:20, Abdelkader D 14:47

SECOND PERIOD

2. DETROIT, Dylan Larkin 1 (Jonathan Ericsson, Niklas Kronwall) 3:30 3. TAMPA BAY, Brian Boyle 1 (Jonathan Drouin, Braydon Coburn) 6:46

Penalties ― Larkin D 1:12, Datsyuk D 10:21, Sheahan D Hedman T Drouin T 11:50, Hedman T 14:03, Boyle T

17:35

THIRD PERIOD

4. DETROIT, Brad Richards 1 (Mike Green, Tomas Tatar) 4:27 PPG 5. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 1 (Alex Killorn) 6:32 GWG

6. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 2 (Nikita Kucherov, Jason Garrison) 14:48 7. TAMPA BAY, Alex Killorn 2 (Matthew Carle, Tyler Johnson) 17:16 ENG

Penalties ― Nesterov T 2:53, Tatar D 6:57, Larkin D Callahan T (minors, 10-minute misconducts) Marchenko D

Green D Paquette T Sustr T (10-minute misconducts) Abdelkader D (major, 10-minute misconduct) Nesterov T

(major) Richards D (minor, major) Blunden T 19:06

Shots on goal by

RED WINGS 15 8 9 32 LIGHTNING 12 9 10 31

DETROIT, Jimmy Howard (3.59 GAA, .891 sv pct in series); TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop

Power play: DET ― 1 for 5 1 for 10 in series, TB ― 1 for 7 1 for 11 in series Referees: Chris Rooney, Francois St. Laurent Linesmen: Matt MacPherson, Brian Murphy


C Tyler Johnson TB, LW Jonathan Drouin TB, RW Ryan Callahan TB game’s three stars C Tyler Johnson’s four points tied Lightning SCP team record for pts in game ~ Lecavalier, 2011

Line of Johnson, Killorn, Kucherov has combined for 15 points (7g, 8a) in the first two games

Tuesday, April 19 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

TAMPA BAY 3 @ DETROIT 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 4 (Tyler Johnson, Jonathan Drouin) 5:41 PPG

Penalties ― Abdelkader D 5:32, Kronwall D 14:20, Paquette T 16:28, Johnson T 19:14

SECOND PERIOD

2. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 5 (Jonathan Drouin, Jason Garrison) 10:31 PPG 3. DETROIT, Darren Helm 1 (Luke Glendening, Brendan Smith) 14:53

4. DETROIT, Gustav Nyquist 1 (Riley Sheahan) 19:50

Penalties ― Paquette T Andersson D 5:10, Sheahan D 9:07, Paquette T 12:42, Nyquist D 17:30

THIRD PERIOD 5. TAMPA BAY, Ondrej Palat 1 (Jonathan Drouin, Nikita Kucherov) 17:01 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Garrison T 11:44, Ericsson D 15:18

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 14 11 8 33 RED WINGS 10 8 10 28

TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop; DETROIT, Petr Mrazek

Power play: TB ― 3 for 5 4 for 19 in series, DET ― 0 for 4 1 for 21 in series Referees: Jean Hebert, Tim Peel Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen

20 027 at Joe Louis Arena

RW Nikita Kucherov TB, LW Jonathan Drouin TB, C Riley Sheahan DET game’s three stars "We didn't really have a ton of chances to work on the power play," Lightning coach Jon Cooper

said. "We switched our units a bit and we put the puck in the hands of guys who know what to do with it." "We obviously lost the game on special teams, both the power play and the penalty kill,"

Red Wings’ coach Jeff Blashill said. "We'd like to stay out of the box more than that. The fact that they punished us is what I'm most concerned with."



2016 METROPOLITAN QUARTER-FINAL

2 MET PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 v. 3 MET NEW YORK RANGERS 101 GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN v. GM JEFF GORTON, HC ALAIN VIGNEAULT

PENGUINS WIN SERIES IN 5

Wednesday, April 13 2000 h et on Sportsnet, USA

NEW YORK 2 @ PITTSBURGH 5

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 1 (Conor Sheary, Kris Letang) 19:42

Penalties ― Stalberg N 5:19, Stalberg N 10:47, Fehr P 12:59

SECOND PERIOD 2. PITTSBURGH, Sidney Crosby 1 (Patric Hornqvist) 18:56

Penalties ― Kreider N 0:09, Moore N 10:02, Daley P 11:46

THIRD PERIOD

3. NEW YORK, Derek Stepan 1 (Rick Nash, Derick Brassard) 3:10 PPG 4. PITTSBURGH, Tom Kuhnhackl 1 (Nick Bonino, Kris Letang) 5:31 SHG GWG

5. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 2 (Phil Kessel, Sidney Crosby) 8:02 PPG 6. NEW YORK, Derek Stepan 2 (Dan Boyle, Mats Zuccarello) 10:11

7. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 3 (Sidney Crosby, Trevor Daley) 17:10 ENG

Penalties ― Hagelin P (double minor) Cole P 2:08, Staal N 7:35

Shots on goal by RANGERS 12 10 15 37

PENGUINS 11 7 13 31 NEW YORK, Henrik Lundqvist, Antti Raanta (start of second period); PITTSBURGH, Jeff Zatkoff

Power play: NYR ― 1 for 5, PIT ― 1 for 5

Referees: Jean Hebert, Tim Peel Linesmen: David Brisebois, Pierre Racicot 18 588 at CONSOL Energy Center

RW Patric Hornqvist PIT, G Jeff Zatkoff PIT, C Sidney Crosby PIT game’s three stars

Penguins and Rangers meet in SCP for third consecutive season G Marc-Andre Fleury PIT and G Matt Murray PIT both out with concussion-related injury

G Henrik Lundqvist NYR takes D Marc Staal’s stick in the mask w/ 48.2 secs rem. in first pd

Tuesday, April 19 1900 h et on Sportsnet, USA

PITTSBURGH 3 @ NEW YORK 1

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Staal N 10:42, Sheary P 12:10, Kunitz P Letang P Hayes N Stalberg N 16:58

SECOND PERIOD 1. NEW YORK, Rick Nash 1 (Kevin Klein, Marc Staal) 0:39 SHG

2. PITTSBURGH, Sidney Crosby 2 (Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin) 19:18 PPG

Penalties ― Kreider N 0:22, Daley P 3:18, Malkin P 8:04, Staal N 19:00

THIRD PERIOD 3. PITTSBURGH, Matt Cullen 1 (Tom Kuhnhackl, Ian Cole) 4:16

4. PITTSBURGH, Kris Letang 1 (unassisted) 19:47 ENG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by PENGUINS 9 10 12 31

NEW YORK 6 7 4 17 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; NEW YORK, Henrik Lundqvist

Power play: PIT ― 1 for 3 4 for 13 in series, NYR ― 0 for 4 1 for 12 in series

Referees: Dave Jackson, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Mark Shewchyk 18 006 at Madison Square Garden IV

C Matt Cullen PIT, LW Rick Nash NYR, G Matt Murray PIT game’s three stars

"I thought he was real solid," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said of 21-year-old G Matt Murray. "He's got a real calm demeanor in there. I think he reads plays well. He was tracking the puck.

When he needed to make the timely saves for us, he did.” Including Pittsburgh's three playoff games, F Sidney Crosby has at least one point in 22 of his

past 24, and 13 goals and 33 points since Feb. 29. He has at least a point in 13 of his past 15 games at Madison Square Garden.

Saturday, April 23 1500 h et on SN360, NBC


FIRST PERIOD

1. NEW YORK, Rick Nash 2 (Dan Girardi, Brady Skjei) 1:02 2. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 1 (Phil Kessel, Nick Bonino) 9:50

3. NEW YORK, Dominic Moore 1 (Jesper Fast, Marc Staal) 10:35 4. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 3 (Sidney Crosby, Kris Letang) 11:39 PPG

Penalties ― Skjei N 10:42, Malkin P 12:42, Nash N Letang P 15:16

SECOND PERIOD

5. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 1 (Trevor Daley, Matt Cullen) 5:21 GWG 6. PITTSBURGH, Matt Cullen 2 (Bryan Rust, Tom Kuhnhackl) 9:26

7. PITTSBURGH, Conor Sheary 2 (Sidney Crosby) 16:18 8. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 2 (Evgeni Malkin) 19:01

Penalties ― Moore N 10:26, Sheary P 14:01

THIRD PERIOD

9. NEW YORK, Chris Kreider 2 (Raphael Diaz, Derick Brassard) 5:38 PPG

Penalties ― Murray P (served by Kessel) 4:58

Shots on goal by

RANGERS 14 11 16 41 PENGUINS 11 12 5 28

NEW YORK, Henrik Lundqvist (4.39 GAA, .867 sv pct in series), Antti Raanta (start of third period); PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray (1.33, .955)

Power play: NYR ― 1 for 3 2 for 19 in series, PIT ― 1 for 2 8 for 21 in series

Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Brad Kovachik 18 607 at CONSOL Energy Center

RW Bryan Rust PIT, C Sidney Crosby PIT, C Matt Cullen PIT game’s three stars

G Matt Murray PIT second Pens goalie to win his first three career SCP starts (Binkley 4, 1970) "The way the game was played, especially the past two games, there were a lot of big opportunities

right in front," G Henrik Lundqvist NYR said. "You need strong goaltending. You need a goalie that's going to make a lot of big extra saves and I was not able to come up with that. … You need to be extremely

confident as a goalie to stop those types of shots, and these last two games, I wasn't strong enough to do that."

C Sidney Crosby PIT led series with eight points in five games

Saturday, April 16 1500 h et on HNIC, NBC


FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Hayes N 16:25, Zuccarello N Hornqvist P 19:58

SECOND PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 1 (Trevor Daley, Nick Bonino) 3:21 PPG

2. NEW YORK, Keith Yandle 1 (J.T. Miller, Derick Brassard) 12:38 3. NEW YORK, Derick Brassard 1 (J.T. Miller, Brady Skjei) 12:56

4. NEW YORK, Mats Zuccarello 1 (J.T. Miller) 16:52 GWG

Penalties ― Zuccarello N 2:08, Dumoulin P 8:47, Rust P 13:26, Miller N 17:15

THIRD PERIOD 5. NEW YORK, Chris Kreider 1 (Derick Brassard) 0:39

6. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 2 (Nick Bonino, Evgeni Malkin) 5:42 PPG

Penalties ― Crosby P 4:34, Kreider N 4:41, Yandle N 5:30, Klein N Kunitz P (minors, majors) 11:43

Shots on goal by RANGERS 7 14 7 28

PENGUINS 10 11 10 31 NEW YORK, Henrik Lundqvist; PITTSBURGH, Jeff Zatkoff

Power play: NYR ― 0 for 3 1 for 8 in series, PIT ― 2 for 5 3 for 10 in series

Referees: Marc Joannette, Steve Kozari Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 18 614 at CONSOL Energy Center

C J.T. Miller NYR, C Derick Brassard NYR, C Phil Kessel PIT game’s three stars

"Finally, we were able to capitalize on a few of our looks," Rangers’ coach Alain Vigneault said. "We had some good looks. We've had some real good zone time both in Game 1 and Game 2.

We've had the puck quite a bit. We've had the puck quite a bit in their end and we've had some good looks."

Rangers outhit the Penguins 57-25

Thursday, April 21 1900 h et on Sportsnet

PITTSBURGH 5 @ NEW YORK 0

FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Eric Fehr 1 (Ben Lovejoy, Evgeni Malkin) 1:09 GWG

2. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 4 (Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin) 7:11 PPG 3. PITTSBURGH, Conor Sheary 1 (unassisted) 16:12

Penalties ― Nash N 6:42, Hornqvist P 8:43, Daley P E. Staal N 10:50, Daley P 13:06

SECOND PERIOD

4. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 1 (Sidney Crosby, Patric Hornqvist) 4:00 PPG

Penalties ― Moore N 3:36, Glass N 6:14, Lovejoy P 11:56

THIRD PERIOD 5. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 2 (Brian Dumoulin, Nick Bonino) 3:28 PPG

Penalties ― Miller N 2:14, Bonino P 14:30, Lindberg N 19:32

Shots on goal by

PENGUINS 13 14 5 32 NEW YORK 11 6 14 31

PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; NEW YORK, Henrik Lundqvist, Antti Raanta (6:04 of second period)

Power play: PIT ― 3 for 6 7 for 19 in series, NYR ― 0 for 4 1 for 16 in series Referees: Wes McCauley, Gord Dwyer Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen

18 006 at Madison Square Garden IV

C Evgeni Malkin PIT, G Matt Murray PIT, C Sidney Crosby PIT game’s three stars "It's definitely out of character for this group to come up with this type of performance,"

New York coach Alain Vigneault said. "I don't think it was lack of will, we just picked a very bad night to have a very bad game. Right now, all we can focus on is getting back to work

tomorrow and that's what we're going to do." G Henrik Lundqvist NYR allowed four goals on 14 shots before being lifted



2016 WEST QUARTER-FINAL 1 CEN DALLAS STARS 109 v. WC 2 MINNESOTA WILD 87

GM JIM NILL, HC LINDY RUFF v. GM CHUCK FLETCHER, HC JOHN TORCHETTI

STARS WIN SERIES IN 6

Thursday, April 14 2030 h ct on SN360, NBCSN

MINNESOTA 0 @ DALLAS 4

FIRST PERIOD

1. DALLAS, Radek Faksa 1 (Ales Hemsky) 3:53 GWG

2. DALLAS, Jason Spezza 1 (Patrick Eaves, Jamie Benn) 12:17

Penalties ― Benn D 5:38, Koivu M 8:58, Stoll M 13:47, Coyle M 16:20


Penalties ― Johns D 16:16, Niederreiter M 18:00

THIRD PERIOD

3. DALLAS, Patrick Eaves 1 (Jason Spezza, Jamie Benn) 14:16 PPG 4. DALLAS, Jamie Benn 1 (unassisted) 16:00

Penalties ― Pominville M 12:20, Suter M 17:29

Shots on goal by

WILD 2 11 9 22

STARS 14 8 10 32

MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen

Power play: MIN ― 0 for 2, DAL ― 1 for 6 Referees: Frederick L’Ecuyer, Brad Watson Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers

18 532 at American Airlines Arena

C Jason Spezza DAL, C Radek Faksa DAL, G Kari Lehtonen DAL game’s three stars "[The shutout] is cool, but the most important thing is to get that first win, and we just go from

here, go for Game No. 2," said G Kari Lehtonen DAL, who was playing in his ninth career NHL playoff game.

"I didn't really know what to expect. We obviously showed some good patience," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said. "Thought we had a little bit of the jitters in the first. I thought we defended well,

played well away from the puck. I thought we had chances to make some more plays, and some of that execution was [lacking]. Maybe four days off hurt us a little bit."

Monday, April 18 1930 h ct on Sportsnet, CNBC

DALLAS 3 @ MINNESOTA 5

FIRST PERIOD

1. DALLAS, Patrick Sharp 1 (Alex Goligoski) 0:26 2. DALLAS, Patrick Sharp 2 (Cody Eakin, Jamie Benn) 4:10

3. MINNESOTA, Chris Porter 1 (Erik Haula, Jonas Brodin) 19:10

Penalties ― Dumba M 5:10, Demers D 16:30

SECOND PERIOD 4. MINNESOTA, Erik Haula 1 (Jason Pominville, Nino Niederreiter) 6:04

5. MINNESOTA, Jason Pominville 1 (Nino Niederreiter, Matt Dumba) 19:12

Penalties ― Benn D Coyle M 17:27, Pominville M 20:00

THIRD PERIOD 6. MINNESOTA, Mikko Koivu 1 (Jared Spurgeon, Charlie Coyle) 6:26 PPG GWG

7. DALLAS, Colton Sceviour 1 (Jason Demers, Vernon Fiddler) 13:45 8. MINNESOTA, Jason Pominville 2 (unassisted) 18:46

Penalties ― Benn D 5:55

Shots on goal by

STARS 6 4 7 17

WILD 10 8 7 25 DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen; MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk

Power play: DAL ― 0 for 2 1 for 13 in series, MIN ― 1 for 2 2 for 9 in series

Referees: Marc Joannette, Steve Kozari Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Bryan Pancich 19 038 at Xcel Energy Center

C Erik Haula MIN, C Mikael Granlund MIN, RW Jason Pominville MIN game’s three stars

Wild won for sixth time this season when allowing first goal (6-27-6) "We didn't play near as well as we needed to play," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said. "That's

probably as bad as I've seen us play in maybe five weeks. When you look at some of the one-on-one battles that we lost, you lose enough of those, you're going to lose a big battle, too."

Friday, April 22 2030 h ct on SN360, NBCSN

MINNESOTA 5 @ DALLAS 4 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. MINNESOTA, Mikael Granlund 1 (David Jones) 3:32

2. MINNESOTA, Jordan Schroeder 1 (Ryan Suter, Jared Spurgeon) 5:16 3. DALLAS, Johnny Oduya 1 (Radek Faksa, John Klingberg) 17:18

Penalties ― Dumba M Roussel D 7:59, Spurgeon M 8:13


Penalties ― Spurgeon M 1:32

THIRD PERIOD 4. DALLAS, Jamie Benn 3 (John Klingberg) 1:00

5. MINNESOTA, Nino Niederreiter 1 (Jared Spurgeon, Jason Pominville) 1:50 6. DALLAS, Jason Spezza 3 (Janmark, Patrick Eaves) 8:28

7. DALLAS, Alex Goligoski 1 (Cody Eakin) 8:56 8. MINNESOTA, Mikko Koivu 2 (Mikael Granlund, Jason Pominville) 16:51

Penalties ― None

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 9. MINNESOTA, Mikko Koivu 3 (Ryan Suter, Prosser) 4:55 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

WILD 7 10 5 2 24

STARS 12 11 15 3 41 MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk; DALLAS, Antti Niemi

Power play: MIN ― 0 for 0 2 for 12 in series, DAL ― 0 for 2 3 for 17 in series

Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 18 889 at American Airlines Arena

C Mikko Koivu MIN, LW Jamie Benn DAL, C Mikael Granlund MIN game’s three stars "I don't like the mistakes, but I think we had over 90 attempts and we had the puck most of the

night," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said. "We made some really big mistakes. We made some big mistakes on goals that we haven't been making and we've got to clean them up."

"It's fun," Wild coach John Torchetti said. "That's playoff hockey. You have to be ready for it. I can't even believe they pay me for this job because it's so much fun."

Saturday, April 16 1900 h ct on Sportsnet, NBCSN

MINNESOTA 1 @ DALLAS 2

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Scandella M 8:28, Stars’ bench (served by Sharp) 9:39, Hemsky D 13:08, Suter M 16:45

SECOND PERIOD 1. DALLAS, Antoine Roussel 1 (Ales Hemsky) 3:54

Penalties ― Zucker M 5:41, Stoll M Carter M (10-minute misconduct) 11:32

THIRD PERIOD

2. DALLAS, Jamie Benn 2 (Cody Eakin) 10:23 3. MINNESOTA, Marco Scandella 1 (Matt Dumba, Jason Zucker) 12:42 PPG

Penalties ― Spezza D 4:04, Oduya D 10:59, Pominville M 17:08, Eaves D 19:54

Shots on goal by WILD 7 11 8 26

STARS 14 10 4 28 MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen

Power play: MIN ― 1 for 5 1 for 7 in series, DAL ― 0 for 5 1 for 11 in series

Referees: Brad Meier, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Brad Kovachik 19 988 at American Airlines Arena

G Kari Lehtonen DAL, LW Jamie Benn DAL, LW Antoine Roussel DAL game’s three stars

Antoine Roussel’s goal was a very strange one…while he was behind the net, the puck hit his skate and deflected into the air. It went over the back of the net, hit goalie Devan Dubnyk

near his nameplate, and dropped over the goal line. The play was reviewed to see if the net was dislodged prior to the puck crossing the line, but the goal was upheld.

Dallas forward Tyler Seguin played his first game since an Achilles injury sustained on March 17. He had one shot in 15:40 of ice time.

Wednesday, April 20 2030 h ct on SN360, NBCSN



Penalties ― Goligoski D 4:17, Demers D Haula M 13:02

SECOND PERIOD

1. MINNESOTA, Jason Pominville 3 (Nino Niederreiter, Erik Haula) 5:01

2. DALLAS, Ales Hemsky 1 (Jason Demers, Kris Russell) 9:11 PPG

3. MINNESOTA, Charlie Coyle 1 (Jason Zucker) 10:14

4. DALLAS, Patrick Eaves 2 (Kris Russell, Jason Spezza) 13:24 PPG 5. DALLAS, Jason Spezza 2 (Jason Demers, Jamie Benn) 18:51

Penalties ― Dumba M 7:17, Niederreiter M 12:28, Benn D 16:37

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Roussel D 18:36

Shots on goal by STARS 10 10 2 22

WILD 9 7 14 30 DALLAS, Antti Niemi; MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk


Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Ian Walsh Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 19 080 at Xcel Energy Center

C Jason Spezza DAL, C Charlie Coyle MIN, D Jared Spurgeon MIN game’s three stars

"We've stayed with the program with both [goaltenders], we're comfortable using both of them, and both these guys have done a real good job," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said of Antti Niemi

and Kari Lehtonen. "[Niemi's] energy in practice and work ethic and how he looked was, just comfortable putting him in. He gave us a great game."

Minnesota scored first for the first time in the series. The Wild were 33-8-5 this season when scoring first, the eighth-best record in the NHL.

Sunday, April 24 1400 h ct on Sportsnet, NBC


FIRST PERIOD

1. DALLAS, John Klingberg 1 (Jason Spezza, Jamie Benn) 5:56 PPG 2. DALLAS, Jason Spezza 4 (Mattias Janmark, Patrick Eaves) 9:07

3. DALLAS, Patrick Sharp 3 (Cody Eakin, Jamie Benn) 18:11

Penalties ― Stars’ bench (served by Janmark) 1:57, Coyle M 4:16, Scandella M 4:51

SECOND PERIOD 4. DALLAS, Jamie Benn 4 (Patrick Sharp, Jason Spezza) 19:36

Penalties ― Fiddler D 4:48

THIRD PERIOD

5. MINNESOTA, Jared Spurgeon 1 (Mikael Granlund, Mikko Koivu) 3:48 PPG 6. MINNESOTA, Jonas Brodin 1 (Erik Haula, Nino Niederreiter) 4:04

7. MINNESOTA, Jared Spurgeon 2 (Mikko Koivu, Ryan Suter) 8:39 PPG 8. DALLAS, Alex Goligoski 2 (Mattias Janmark, Jason Spezza) 10:28 GWG

9. MINNESOTA, Jason Pominville 4 (Jonas Brodin, Nino Niederreiter) 15:13

Penalties ― Roussel D 3:10, Johns D 8:22


WILD 6 7 16 29

DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen; MINNESOTA, Devan Dubnyk


Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 19 310 at Xcel Energy Center

C Mikko Koivu MIN, C Jason Spezza DAL, D Jared Spurgeon MIN game’s three stars

Stars win their first Stanley Cup Playoff series since 2008 Wild used Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" as its goal song in honour of singer, who passed away on Thurs

"That first 45 minutes, this building was dead," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said. "There was nothing going on. We were above them, we made them come through us, we maybe gave them a handful of

chances. That last 15 was interesting."



2016 WEST QUARTER-FINAL

1 PAC ANAHEIM DUCKS 103 v. WC 1 NASHVILLE PREDATORS 96 GM BOB MURRAY, HC BRUCE BOUDREAU v. GM DAVID POILE, HC PETER LAVIOLETTE

PREDATORS WIN SERIES IN 7

Friday, April 15 1930 h pt on HNIC, CNBC Romanuk, Johnson, Campbell

NASHVILLE 3 @ ANAHEIM 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, James Neal 1 (unassisted) 0:35

2. ANAHEIM, Ryan Getzlaf 1 (Cam Fowler, Corey Perry) 17:39 PPG

Penalties ― Ribeiro N 7:08, Despres A 11:24, Bitetto N 16:15, Weber N 16:50

SECOND PERIOD 3. ANAHEIM, Ryan Kesler 1 (Andrew Cogliano, Lindholm) 0:48

4. NASHVILLE, Colin Wilson 1 (Ryan Ellis, Roman Josi) 7:55

Penalties ― Silfverberg A 2:23, Bass N 10:37

THIRD PERIOD 5. NASHVILLE, Filip Forsberg 1 (unassisted) 10:25 GWG

Penalties ― Vatanen A 14:44

Shots on goal by

PREDATORS 12 13 8 33

DUCKS 12 8 9 29

NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne; ANAHEIM, John Gibson

Power play: NSH ― 0 for 3, ANA ― 1 for 4 Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Ian Walsh Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen

17 236 at Honda Center

RW James Neal NSH, D Hampus Lindholm ANA, D Ryan Ellis NSH game’s three stars F Filip Forsberg tied a Predators’ record with 33 goals this season

"We didn't play as well as we needed to play in order to be successful, and there's no doubt," Ducks’ head coach Bruce Boudreau said. "We can all play better. I think there's not one guy that

played great tonight, so we can all play better."

Tuesday, April 19 2030 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN

ANAHEIM 3 @ NASHVILLE 0

FIRST PERIOD 1. ANAHEIM, Jamie McGinn 1 (Shawn Horcoff, Chris Stewart) 10:05 GWG

Penalties ― Neal N 11:46, Despres A 19:18

SECOND PERIOD

2. ANAHEIM, Rickard Rakell 1 (Sami Vatanen, Corey Perry) 11:33 3. ANAHEIM, Chris Stewart 1 (Ryan Getzlaf, Hampus Lindholm) 17:06

Penalties ― McGinn A 7:56, Fowler A 18:17

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Silfverberg A 0:29, Ducks’ bench (served by Stewart) 4:26, Jarnkrok N 11:34

Shots on goal by DUCKS 8 10 3 21

PREDATORS 6 8 13 27 ANAHEIM, Frederik Andersen; NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne

Power play: ANA ― 0 for 2 1 for 7 in series, NSH ― 0 for 5 1 for 13 in series

Referees: Gord Dwyner, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: David Brisebois, Pierre Racicot 17 204 at Bridgestone Arena

G Frederik Andersen ANA, RW Chris Stewart ANA, LW Filip Forsberg NSH game’s three stars

"We came with a business-like mindset," G Frederik Andersen ANA said. "We wanted to get back in the series. Huge, huge game for us. We came here to play in the first and did some

of the things right we wanted to improve from the last two games." "I think that as a group they were responsible tonight," Ducks’ coach Bruce Boudreau said.

It was a businesslike fashion. We got the couple breaks when we got them and put them in, and that's playoff hockey."

Saturday, April 23 1500 h pt on Sportsnet, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Sissons N 1:59, Predators’ bench (served by Johansen) N 7:13, Weber N 19:39, Perry A 1946

SECOND PERIOD 1. NASHVILLE, Ryan Johansen 1 (Colin Wilson) 14:13

2. ANAHEIM, David Perron 1 (unassisted) 14:35 3. ANAHEIM, Ryan Garbutt 1 (Ryan Getzlaf, David Perron) 16:23

Penalties ― Neal N 11:27, Neal N 20:00

THIRD PERIOD

4. ANAHEIM, Sami Vatanen 1 (Jakob Silfverberg) 8:34 GWG 5. NASHVILLE, Miikka Salomaki 1 (Shea Weber, Mike Ribeiro) 13:29

6. ANAHEIM, Cam Fowler 1 (Sami Vatanen, Corey Perry) 16:37 PPG 7. ANAHEIM, Ryan Kesler 2 (Ryan Getzlaf, Jakov Silfverberg) 18:14 ENG

I Penalties ― Vatanen A 6:27, Horcoff A 8:59, Ribeiro N 16:26, Jackman N 19:15

Shots on goal by

PREDATORS 13 7 9 29 DUCKS 12 8 12 32

NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne; ANAHEIM, Frederik Andersen

Power play: NSH ― 0 for 3 1 for 22 in series, ANA ― 1 for 7 2 for 19 in series Referees: Jean Hebert, Tim Peel Linesmen: Scott Driscoll, Bryan Pancich


C Ryan Garbutt ANA, LW David Perron ANA, G Frederik Andersen ANA game’s three stars Ducks have won six consecutive Game Fives in SCP

G Frederik Andersen ANA has allowed just three goals on the 87 shots he’s faced in this series "He's showing a lot of confidence, but I've seen him play like this," Ducks’ head coach

Bruce Boudreau said of G Frederik Andersen ANA. "There have been pockets of time where you just know nothing is going to beat him unless it's something he can't see. Hopefully, he

can continue playing like that."

Sunday, April 17 1930 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. ANAHEIM, Andrew Cogliano 1 (unassisted) 14:20 2. NASHVILLE, Mattias Ekholm 1 (Colin Wilson, Craig Smith) 19:04

Penalties ― Perry A 7:16, Perry A 9:46, Josi N Getzlaf A 10:51, Ellis N 14:38

SECOND PERIOD

3. NASHVILLE, Craig Smith 1 (Filip Forsberg, Roman Josi) 9:55 4. NASHVILLE, Shea Weber 1 (Roman Josi, Filip Forsberg) 19:21 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Garbutt A 5:19, Perron A 17:30

THIRD PERIOD

5. ANAHEIM, Nate Thompson 1 (Jakov Silfverberg, Andrew Cogliano) 17:18

Penalties ― Silfverberg A 9:41

Shots on goal by

PREDATORS 12 9 6 27 DUCKS 13 11 5 29

NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne; ANAHEIM, John Gibson

Power play: NSH ― 1 for 5 1 for 8 in series, ANA ― 0 for 1 1 for 5 in series Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen


G Pekka Rinne NSH, C Nate Thompson ANA, D Roman Josi NSH game’s three stars "We were just stupid out there," Ducks’ coach Bruce Boudreau said. "The penalties we

take sometimes are just so selfish and so dumb… Quite frankly, we don't deserve a break (from the officials) if we're just going to be yelling and being stupid all night long."

Ducks had just three shots in the first 17 minutes of the third period

Thursday, April 21 1900 h ct on FX, USA


FIRST PERIOD 1. ANAHEIM, Ryan Getzlaf 2 (David Perron, Kevin Bieksa) 1:02

Penalties ― Weber N 7:41, Perron A 8:15, Fowler A 16:53

SECOND PERIOD

2. NASHVILLE, Mike Fisher 1 (Colin Wilson, Shea Weber) 11:26 3. ANAHEIM, Nate Thompson 2 (Rickard Rakell, Sami Vatanen) 17:04 GWG

4. ANAHEIM, Jamie McGinn 2 (Chris Stewart) 18:56

Penalties ― Garbutt A 0:26, Salomaki N 4:10, Perron A Sissons N 12:45, Despres A Arvidsson N 15:55, Ribeiro N 19:50

THIRD PERIOD

5. ANAHEIM, Andrew Cogliano 2 (Jakob Silfverberg) 16:52

Penalties ― Thompson A 5:49, Garbutt A 9:27, Weber N (double minor) 18:32




Referees: Dave Jackson, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Tim Nowak 17 232 at Bridgestone Arena

G Frederik Andersen ANA, C Nate Thompson ANA, C Mike Fisher NSH game’s three stars

"Any time you can get a lead in a game is big when you can come out on the road, especially in a building like this," F Ryan Getzlaf ANA said. "Like I said, this place gets going. It was nice

to be able to get that and calm down a little bit." G Frederik Andersen ANA has allowed just one goal in the 58 series shots he has faced

Monday, April 25 1900 h ct on Sportsnet, CNBC


FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Arvidsson N 0:34, Ducks’ bench (served by Perron) 3:09

SECOND PERIOD 1. NASHVILLE, Mattias Ekholm 2 (Calle Jarnkrok, Ryan Ellis) 8:19

2. NASHVILLE, James Neal 2 (Ryan Johansen) 17:45 GWG 3. ANAHEIM, Ryan Kesler 3 (Corey Perry, Cam Fowler) 19:46 PPG

Penalties ― Ekholm N 19:17

THIRD PERIOD

4. NASHVILLE, Shea Weber 2 (James Neal) 19:50 ENG

Penalties ― None




Referees: Brad Watson, Frederick L’Ecuyer Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Ryan Galloway 17 113 at Bridgestone Arena

RW James Neal NSH, G Pekka Rinne NSH, D Mattias Ekholm NSH game’s three stars

"It's awesome. Looking forward to it," D Shea Weber NSH said. "You grow up with playing these

street-hockey games, Game 7s, and you dream of it, so it's going to be a good time."

Ducks have been eliminated from SCP by losing G7 at home each of past three seasons



2016 WEST QUARTER-FINAL

1 PAC ANAHEIM DUCKS 103 v. WC 1 NASHVILLE PREDATORS 96 GM BOB MURRAY, HC BRUCE BOUDREAU v. GM DAVID POILE, HC PETER LAVIOLETTE

PREDATORS WIN SERIES IN 7

Wednesday, April 27 1930 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD 1. NASHVILLE, Colin Wilson 2 (unassisted) 6:19 2. NASHVILLE, Paul Gaustad 1 (Shea Weber, Viktor Arvidsson) 15:53 GWG Penalties ― Vatanen A 11:24, Bieksa A 12:54


Penalties ― Josi N 3:31, Neal N 14:35, Ellis N 19:55

THIRD PERIOD 3. ANAHEIM, Ryan Kesler 4 (Jakob Silfverberg, Hampus Lindholm) 1:45 PPG Penalties ― Fisher N 3:23, Weber N Perron A 12:41, Getzlaf A 14:38 Shots on goal by PREDATORS 10 6 4 20 DUCKS 9 13 15 37 NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne; ANAHEIM, Frederik Andersen Power play: NSH ― 0 for 3 1 for 26 in series, ANA ― 1 for 4 4 for 25 in series Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Brian Murphy 17 407 at Honda Center

G Pekke Rinne NSH, C Ryan Kesler ANA, C Ryan Getzlaf ANA game’s three stars "It's a big step," Predators’ coach Peter Laviolette said. "I feel that if you can't take

this one step, you can't take any more steps. That makes it a really big win for our guys and for our team. When you're faced with these situations, you're either going home or going on and playing hockey to continue to fight for the Cup. It was a big night."

Ducks fell to 2-6 all-time in Game 7s and are 1-4 at Honda Center. They lost Game 7 at home to the Red Wings in 2013, Los Angeles Kings in 2014 and Chicago Blackhawks last year. Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau is 1-7 in Game 7s with the Ducks and Washington Capitals.

Ducks felt this loss stung more than the first three. "With the way the score was, and the way we were pushing, I'd say yes," coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Especially with how hard we had to push from November on just to get to where we were. We did everything the hard way. We thought, in the third period, we still believed we were going to tie it up. It just wasn't meant to be."

Two days after this game, on Friday 29 April, the Ducks fired Bruce Boudreau



2016 CENTRAL QUARTER-FINAL

2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107 v. 3 CEN CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 103 GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK v. GM STAN BOWMAN, HC JOEL QUENNEVILLE

BLUES WIN SERIES IN 7

Wednesday, April 13 2030 h ct on SN360, NBCSN

CHICAGO 0 @ ST. LOUIS 1 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Svedberg C 3:20, Bouwmeester S 13:17, Steen S 15:24, Gunnarsson S 16:49, Seabrook C 18:38

SECOND PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Rozsival C 3:13, Mashinter C 18:41


Penalties ― Fabbri S 1:23


1. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 1 (Jay Bouwmeester, Alex Pietrangelo) 9:04 GWG

Penalties ― Parayko S 0:07

Shots on goal by BLACKHAWKS 11 9 8 7 35

BLUES 4 10 2 2 18 CHICAGO, Corey Crawford; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: CHI ― 0 for 5, STL ― 0 for 4

Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 19 241 at Scottrade Center

C David Backes STL, G Brian Elliott STL, G Corey Crawford CHI game’s three stars

Blues have been eliminated in opening round of SCP in three straight years G Brian Elliott turns in Blues’ first SCP shutout since Brent Johnson on 23 April 2002

Sunday, April 17 1400 h ct on Sportsnet, NBC

ST. LOUIS 3 @ CHICAGO 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. CHICAGO, Brent Seabrook 1 (Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane) 2:18 2. ST. LOUIS, Colton Parayko 1 (Alex Pietrangelo, Robby Fabbri) 12:11 PPG

Penalties ― Brodziak S (double minor) Svedberg C 1:49, Bouwmeester S 3:41, Bouwmeester S 5:46, Svedberg

C 12:04, Edmundson S Shaw C 19:31

SECOND PERIOD 3. CHICAGO, Arten Anisimov 1 (Artemi Panarin) 1:04

Penalties ― Upshall S 9:38

THIRD PERIOD

4. ST. LOUIS, Patrik Berglund 1 (Kevin Shattenkirk, Robby Fabbri) 5:15 5. ST. LOUIS, Jaden Schwartz 1 (David Backes, Vladimir Tarasenko) 13:22 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Kane C (double minor) 11:51

Shots on goal by

BLUES 9 13 14 36

BLACKHAWKS 10 24 12 46 ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; CHICAGO, Corey Crawford

Power play: STL ― 2 for 3 2 for 8 in series, CHI ― 1 for 4 2 for 12 in series

Referees: Jean Hebert, Tim Peel Linesmen: David Brisebois, Pierre Racicot 22 207 at United Center

G Brian Elliott STL, C Jaden Schwartz STL, C Artemi Panarin CHI game’s three stars

F Patrick Kane CHI took his third-period double minor for high-sticking D Alex Pietrangelo STL "We've come back so many times," St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. "I don't know what

we've done, seven or eight already this year. It just doesn't seem to be a big deal with this group. We've got a lot of resiliency in us."

Thursday, April 21 2030 h ct on SN360

CHICAGO 4 @ ST. LOUIS 3 DOUBLE OVERTIME


Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 1. CHICAGO, Marian Hossa 1 (Niklas Hjalmarsson) 11:32 SHG

2. ST. LOUIS, Jaden Schwartz 3 (Alex Pietrangelo, Colton Parayko) 12:29 PPG 3. CHICAGO, Artem Anisimov 2 (Artemi Panarin, Tuomo Teravainen) 15:24

4. CHICAGO, Artemi Panarin 2 (Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews) 19:59

Penalties ― Rundblad C 0:58, Lehtera S 6:33, Anisimov C 10:51

THIRD PERIOD

5. ST. LOUIS, Robby Fabbri 1 (Alex Pietrangelo) 6:57

6. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 2 (Alex Pietrangelo, Robbi Fabbri) 14:50

Penalties ― Blackhawks’ bench (served by Panarin) 15:46


NO SCORING

Penalties ― None


7. CHICAGO, Patrick Kane 1 (Richard Panik) 3:07 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

BLACKHAWKS 4 16 6 7 2 35

BLUES 6 14 14 11 1 46

CHICAGO, Corey Crawford; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: CHI ― 0 for 1 3 for 15 in series, STL ― 1 for 3 5 for 15 in series Referees: Marc Joannette, Steve Kozari Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers

19 956 at Scottrade Center

RW Patrick Kane CHI, C Robby Fabbri STL, LW Jaden Schwartz STL game’s three stars

F Andrew Shaw CHI was suspended for tonight’s game for using a homophobic slur in G4 "He's a clutch player," Blackhawks’ coach Joel Quenneville said of F Patrick Kane CHI, who

scored his 49th playoff goal. "Obviously he's a great player. Not a lot of guys can do what he

did or does. Couple of those spin moves tonight were dangerous and he stuck with it on the other side of the net, so obviously you have to give him credit. He's special and he's special with

everything on the line as well."

Friday, April 15 1900 h ct on Sportsnet, NBCSN

CHICAGO 3 @ ST. LOUIS 2

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Berglund S 6:25, Panarin C 9:19

SECOND PERIOD

1. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 1 (Jaden Schwartz, Jori Lehtera) 15:20 2. CHICAGO, Duncan Keith 1 (Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews) 19:55

Penalties ― Edmundson S 4:58, Panik C Edmundson S 20:00

THIRD PERIOD

3. CHICAGO, Andrew Shaw 1 (Brent Seabrook, Patrick Kane) 15:41 PPG 4. CHICAGO, Artemi Panarin 1 (Duncan Keith) 18:34 GWG

5. ST. LOUIS, Kevin Shattenkirk 1 (David Backes) 19:58

Penalties ― Ladd C Fabbri S 9:14, Tarasenko S 13:48

Shots on goal by

BLACKHAWKS 2 17 10 29

BLUES 7 15 9 31 CHICAGO, Corey Crawford; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: CHI ― 1 for 3 1 for 8 in series, STL ― 0 for 1 0 for 5 in series

Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Shane Heyer, Mark Shewchyk At Scottrade Center

G Corey Crawford CHI, RW Vladimir Tarasenko STL, RW Patrick Kane CHI game’s three stars

Blues had a goal disallowed with 7:54 remaining, when it was determined, via replay, that they had been offside earlier in the play

D Duncan Keith CHI returned to Blackhawks’ lineup tonight after serving a six-game suspension for high-sticking Wild forward Charlie Coyle in the face

Tuesday, April 19 2030 h ct on Sportsnet, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 2 (Jori Lehtera, Jaden Schwartz) 14:02

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 2. CHICAGO, Andrew Shaw 2 (Marian Hossa, Erik Gustafsson) 9:12

3. CHICAGO, Duncan Keith 2 (Andrew Shaw, Patrick Kane) 13:09 PPG 4. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 3 (Alexander Steen, Kevin Shattenkirk) 17:31 PPG

Penalties ― Panik C 0:39, Edmundson S 7:05, Fabbri S Pietrangelo S Shattenkirk S Ladd C Crawford C 11:54,

Steen S Panarin C 12:15, Ladd C 17:09

THIRD PERIOD 5. ST. LOUIS, Jaden Schwartz 2 (Kevin Shattenkirk, Vladimir Tarasenko) 1:36 PPG

6. ST. LOUIS, Alexander Steen 1 (unassisted) 4:46 GWG 7. CHICAGO, Duncan Keith 3 (Panarin, Andrew Shaw) 14:40

Penalties ― Keith C 1:01, Shaw C 17:56, Steen S (minor, 10-minute misconduct) Shaw C (double minor, 10-

minute misconduct) Brouwer S Pietrangelo S Bouwmeester S Stastny S Ladd C Toews C Panarin C Kane C

Seabrook C (10-minute misconducts) 20:00

Shots on goal by BLUES 5 10 5 20

BLACKHAWKS 14 14 14 42 ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; CHICAGO, Corey Crawford


Referees: Chris Rooney, Francois St. Laurent Linesmen: Derek Amell, Tim Nowak 22 212 at United Center

RW Vladimir Tarasenko STL, G Brian Elliott STL, D Duncan Keith CHI game’s three stars

"It felt good," said F Vladimir Tarasenko STL, who has 13 goals in 17 career games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. "We know this feels good, especially in this building. We know they come

back from this situation a lot of times, and we need to forget about this game tomorrow and try to prepare for the next one."

After going 8-for-8 on the penalty kill in the first two games, Chicago allowed four goals while shorthanded in Games 3 and 4

Saturday, April 23 1900 h ct on HNIC, NBC Randorf, Millen


FIRST PERIOD

1. CHICAGO, Andrew Ladd 1 (Marcus Kruger) 3:47 2. ST. LOUIS, Scottie Upshall 1 (Steve Ott) 6:18

3. ST. LOUIS, Alex Pietrangelo 1 (Troy Brouwer, Peter Stastny) 8:51 4. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 4 (Jori Lehtera, Jaden Schwartz) 11:00

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD

5. CHICAGO, Artem Anisimov 3 (Marian Hossa, Artemi Panarin) 4:13 PPG 6. CHICAGO, Trevor van Riemsdyk 1 (Jonathan Toews, Richard Panik) 12:21

7. CHICAGO, Dale Weise 1 (Artemi Panarin) 16:18 GWG

Penalties ― Brodziak S 2:54, van Riemsdyk C 17:59

THIRD PERIOD 8. CHICAGO, Andrew Shaw 3 (Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews) 16:53 PPG

9. CHICAGO, Marian Hossa 2 (Andrew Ladd) 17:40 ENG

Penalties ― Bouwmeester S 15:10, Bortuzzo S 18:12


BLACKHAWKS 9 19 8 36

ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; CHICAGO, Corey Crawford


Referees: Dave Jackson, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen 22 260 at United Center

RW Richard Panik CHI, RW Dale Weise CHI, LW Andrew Ladd CHI game’s three stars

"We haven't done anything yet, right?" said LW Andrew Ladd CHI, who had a goal and assist

in arguably his best game since GM Stan Bowman re-acquired him from the Winnipeg Jets on Feb. 25. "We just wanted to give ourselves a chance to get to a Game 7 and we achieved that.

So now you've got to regroup and get ready for another big game." G Corey Crawford CHI took and shot and looked to be hurt just before second period ended…

but he returned for the third and did not allow a goal on 11 shots



2016 CENTRAL QUARTER-FINAL

2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107 v. 3 CEN CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS 103 GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK v. GM STAN BOWMAN, HC JOEL QUENNEVILLE


Monday, April 25 1930 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN

CHICAGO 2 @ ST. LOUIS 3

FIRST PERIOD 1. ST. LOUIS, Jori Lehtera 1 (Jay Bouwmeester, Jaden Schwartz) 1:00 2. ST. LOUIS, Colton Paraynko 2 (Alexander Steen, Patrik Berglund) 13:43 3. CHICAGO, Marian Hossa 3 (Richard Panik) 18:30 Penalties ―

SECOND PERIOD 4. CHICAGO, Andrew Shaw 4 (Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith) 3:20 PPG Penalties ― Shattenkirk S 2:49

THIRD PERIOD 5. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 1 (Robby Fabbri, Paul Stastny) 8:31 GWG Penalties ― Rundblad C 2:56, Panik C 9:55 Shots on goal by BLACKHAWKS 11 13 9 33 BLUES 9 12 5 26 CHICAGO, Corey Crawford; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott Power play: CHI ― 1 for 1 6 for 19 in series, STL ― 0 for 2 5 for 18 in series Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers 19 935 at Scottrade Center

RW Troy Brouwer STL, G Brian Elliott STL, C Robby Fabbri STL game’s three stars "Every game was just packed with a sense of urgency and emotion," St. Louis coach

Ken Hitchcock said. "Every game felt like its own sudden-death game. It was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun to coach in it, to play in it, to strategize in it. It was a lot of fun. It was real eye-opening what a championship team can do like them when they can dial it up. You find yourself on the bench just in awe with some of the things they do. We had to find a way to battle through it. We knew that there was going to be a push. It came and came hard. You play in a series like this, you see why that team has won three [Stanley] Cups."

Blackhawks were eliminated in first round for first time since 2012 v. Coyotes "Tough way to go out," said Blackhawks’ coach Joel Quenneville, who was coach of the Blues

for their previous Game 7 on home ice, in 2000. "We had the perfect setup there and we did exactly what we're not supposed to do, or what we're unaccustomed to doing, and it's in our net

and it's game, set, match. Huge disappointment for me. In first rounds, that felt like the conference finals."

Jori Lehtera is first Blues player to score his first Stanley Cup playoff goal in Game 7 since Ron Schock on May 5, 1968



2016 PACIFIC QUARTER-FINAL

2 PAC LOS ANGELES KINGS 102 v. 3 PAC SAN JOSE SHARKS 98 GM DEAN LOMBARDI, HC DARRYL SUTTER v. GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER

SHARKS WIN SERIES IN 5

Thursday, April 14 1930 h pt on HNIC, CNBC Romanuk, Johnson, Campbell

SAN JOSE 4 @ LOS ANGELES 3

FIRST PERIOD

1. LOS ANGELES, Jake Muzzin 1 (Milan Lucic, Tanner Pearson) 2:53 2. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 1 (Brent Burns, Logan Couture) 6:25 PPG

Penalties ― Kopitar L 5:46, Lecavalier L 9:36

SECOND PERIOD

3. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 1 (Joel Ward) 6:50 4. LOS ANGELES, Jeff Carter 1 (Milan Lucic, Anze Kopitar) 7:30 PPG

5. LOS ANGELES, Trevor Lewis 1 (unassisted) 17:18 SHG 6. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 1 (Joel Ward, Joonas Donskoi) 17:48

Penalties ― Vlasic S 3:48, Ward S 6:52, Muzzin L 9:47, Polak S 13:27, Doughty L 15:47

THIRD PERIOD 7. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 2 (Justin Braun) 0:17 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 8 12 3 23 KINGS 5 9 10 24

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; LOS ANGELES, Jonathan Quick

Power play: SJ ― 1 for 4, LA ― 1 for 3 Referees: Brad Meier, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Ryan Galloway, Brad Kovachik

18 230 at STAPLES Center

C Joe Pavelski SJ, LW Milan Lucic LA, RW Joel Ward SJ game’s three stars "I didn't know it went in, to be honest," F Joe Pavelski SJ said, of his wrap-around GWG.

"I heard it hit the post …I'm like, 'Oh, God, it might have the post. It might be laying there.' I'll have to get back to work. And it's a goal."

Sharks were 28-10-3 on the road in regular season

Monday, April 18 1930 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN

LOS ANGELES 2 @ SAN JOSE 1 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Joe Thornton 1 (Tomas Hertl) 0:30

2. LOS ANGELES, Anze Kopitar 1 (Milan Lucic, Jake Muzzin) 8:10 PPG

Penalties ― McNabb L 5:33, Wingels S 7:50, Spaling S 11:50


Penalties ― Lewis L 2:57, Gaborik L 13:01, Tierney S 18:36

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Lucic L 9:40, Pearson L 14:04, Brown L Hertl S 19:06

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 3. LOS ANGELES, Tanner Pearson 1 (Dustin Brown, Vincent Lecavalier) 3:47 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

KINGS 13 6 3 2 24 SHARKS 7 11 9 3 30

LOS ANGELES, Jonathan Quick; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: LA ― 1 for 3 3 for 11 in series, SJ ― 0 for 5 2 for 14 in series Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Ian Walsh Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers

17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose

LW Tanner Pearson LA, G Jonathan Quick LA, G Martin Jones SJ game’s three stars

Kings had lost all five overtime playoff games against Sharks in their history before today… San Jose had won five straight and 10 of their past 11 overtime SCP games

"The effort was there, the crowd was great," Sharks’ captain Joe Pavelski said. "We felt like we did a lot of good things again. They were definitely a better team than the first couple of games.

It's nothing we can't play with and we don't feel like we can't get our game going. It's still a big challenge out there, and we're excited."

Friday, April 22 1930 h pt on HNIC, CNBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 1 (Logan Couture) 1:08

2. SAN JOSE, Chris Tierney 1 (Brent Burns) 11:21

Penalties ― Schenn L 2:45, Brown L 3:01, Ward S 16:27

SECOND PERIOD

3. SAN JOSE, Matt Nieto 1 (Joel Ward, Logan Couture) 4:05 4. LOS ANGELES, Anze Kopitar 2 (Dwight King, Drew Doughty) 7:44

5. LOS ANGELES, Jeff Carter 2 (Jake Muzzin, Tyler Toffoli) 11:26 6. LOS ANGELES, Kris Versteeg 1 (Kyle Clifford, Jake Muzzin) 16:36

Penalties ― Lewis L 17:26

THIRD PERIOD 7. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 2 (Brent Burns, Logan Couture) 3:58

8. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 5 (Brent Burns, Paul Martin) 12:24 9. SAN JOSE, Melker Karlsson 1 (Patrick Marleau) 19:38 ENG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by SHARKS 13 10 5 28

KINGS 4 14 4 22

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones (2.18 GAA, .912 sv pct in series); LOS ANGELES, Jonathan Quick (3.04, .886)

Power play: SJ ― 0 for 3 5 for 21 in series, LA ― 0 for 1 3 for 14 in series

Referees: Chris Rooney, Francois St. Laurent Linesmen: Jonny Murray, Steve Barton


RW Joonas Donskoi SJ, D Brent Burns SJ, C Vincent Lecavalier LA game’s three stars

"I haven't been around here for some of the stuff that's gone on in the past, but I'm sure for some guys, they felt like we exorcised some demons tonight," Sharks’ coach Peter DeBoer said.

"For the group in general, it was just a well-earned victory." "Starting from when we cliched the playoff spot, I think we only played one really good game

and that was at home against the Ducks," F Milan Lucic LA said. "It's definitely disappointing from how hard we worked in the season to when we clinched a spot as fast as we could that we didn't

make the most of it. "We can make excuses all we want with [defenseman Alec Martinez] being out of the lineup and this and that, but at the end of the day we didn't play the right way when

we needed to and it ended up costing us." F Joe Pavelski SJ with five goals and D Brent Burns SJ with eight points were series leaders

Saturday, April 16 1930 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 3 (Brent Burns, Joe Thornton) 3:37

Penalties ― Tierney S 4:42, Schenn L 7:55, King L 17:45

SECOND PERIOD 2. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 1 (Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau) 8:44 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Toffoli L Lucic L 8:14, Nieto S 12:18, Spaling S 18:17

THIRD PERIOD

3. LOS ANGELES, Vincent Lecavalier 1 (Tanner Pearson, Jake Muzzin) 14:59 PPG

Penalties ― Spaling S 10:59, Carter L 11:28, Karlsson S 14:06

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 7 9 7 23 KINGS 5 9 13 27

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; LOS ANGELES, Jonathan Quick

Power play: SJ ― 1 for 5 2 for 9 in series, LA ― 1 for 5 2 for 8 in series Referees: Frederick L’Ecuyer, Brad Watson Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers


C Joe Pavelski SJ, G Martin Jones SJ, RW Marian Gaborik LA game’s three stars "It was a hard-fought game, a man's game out there," Sharks’ coach Peter DeBoer said.

"A lot of physical contact, a lot of battles, two teams fully invested and I thought our guys really did a good job of showing up and playing that type of game."

Kings activated forward Marian Gaborik; he played 14:32 and finished with four shots on goal in his first game since injuring his right knee on Feb. 12.

Wednesday, April 20 1930 h pt on HNIC, USA

LOS ANGELES 2 @ SAN JOSE 3

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 2 (Joel Ward, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 2:09 PPG

2. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 4 (Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau) 9:21 PPG

Penalties ― Carter L 0:30, Nieto S 2:33, Ward S 5:26, Scuderi L 8:42, Schenn L 17:30

THIRD PERIOD 3. SAN JOSE, Patrick Marleau 1 (Logan Couture, Brent Burns) 1:40 PPG GWG

4. LOS ANGELES, Trevor Lewis 2 (Luke Schenn, Kris Versteeg) 2:49 5. LOS ANGELES, Luke Schenn 1 (Anze Kopitar, Marian Gaborik) 6:44

Penalties ― McBain L 1:34

Shots on goal by

KINGS 8 8 12 28 SHARKS 11 13 5 29

LOS ANGELES, Jonathan Quick; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: LA ― 0 for 2 3 for 13 in series, SJ ― 3 for 4 5 for 18 in series Referees: Mike Leggo, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller


D Brent Burns SJ, G Martin Jones SJ, D Luke Schenn LA game’s three stars "The difference in the game was their power play," Kings’ forward Dwight King said.

"Our [penalty kill] just wasn't there tonight. They had so many looks. We need to tighten up

the PK. That group's been together for five years. They are so familiar with each other. We have to bear down on our clears."

Two years ago, the Kings rallied from down 3-0 in first round to defeat Sharks in seven games.



2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL

2 ATL TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 97 v. WC 1 NEW YORK ISLANDERS 100 GM STEVE YZERMAN, HC JON COOPER v. GM GARTH SNOW, HC DAVE CAPUANO

LIGHTNING WIN SERIES IN 5

Wednesday, April 27 1930 h et on HNIC

NEW YORK 5 @ TAMPA BAY 3

FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Ondrej Palat 2 (Jonathan Drouin, Sergei Namestnikov) 3:05

2. NEW YORK, Travis Hamonic 1 (Alan Quine, John Tavares) 5:44 3. NEW YORK, Shane Prince 2 (Ryan Strome, Brock Nelson) 17:28

4. NEW YORK, Shane Prince 3 (Ryan Strome, Brock Nelson) 19:57

Penalties ― Johnson T 9:06, Killorn T 11:53

SECOND PERIOD 5. NEW YORK, John Tavares 6 (Kyle Okposo, Frans Nielsen) 8:59 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Zidlicky N 2:21, Marchessault T 8:12, Callahan T 17:41

THIRD PERIOD

6. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 6 (Matt Carle, Victor Hedman) 7:41 7. TAMPA BAY, Valtteri Filppula 1 (Alex Killorn, Jason Garrison) 17:28

8. NEW YORK, Cal Clutterbuck 1 (Casey Cizikas, Calvin de Haan) 19:05 ENG

Penalties ― Cizikas N 15:20

Shots on goal by ISLANDERS 12 5 5 22

LIGHTNING 8 11 17 36

NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss (1.79 GAA, .944 sv pct entering series); TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop (1.61, .950), Andrei Vasilevskiy (8:59 of second period)

Power play: NYI ― 1 for 4 6 for 25 in SCP, TB ― 0 for 2 4 for 25 in SCP

Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 19 092 at Amalie Arena

C Shane Prince NYI, LW Brock Nelson NYI, RW Nikita Kucherov TB game’s three stars

Islanders’ coach Jack Capuano was hit on the right side of his nose with a deflected puck with 11:31 remaining in third period but returned to the bench in final two minutes with a cut on his

nose and swelling around his eye. NHL started one SCP round before the previous was finished for first time since 1983

Tuesday, May 3 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

TAMPA BAY 5 @ NEW YORK 4 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. NEW YORK, Josh Bailey 1 (Nikolay Kulemin, Travis Hamonic) 7:55

2. TAMPA BAY, Ryan Callahan 1 (Alex Killorn, Valtteri Filppula) 19:47 PPG

Penalties ― Killorn T 8:11, Bailey N 12:46, Cizikas N 18:27

SECOND PERIOD 3. TAMPA BAY, Victor Hedman 2 (Tyler Johnson) 8:10

4. NEW YORK, Nick Leddy 1 (Cal Clutterbuck, Casey Cizikas) 14:50

Penalties ― Garrison T 2:04, Koekkoek T Palat T Hamonic N 5:56

THIRD PERIOD

5. NEW YORK, Josh Bailey 2 (Thomas Hickey, Shane Prince) 2:27 PPG 6. TAMPA BAY, Vladislav Namestnikov 1 (Valtteri Filppula, Alex Killorn) 3:25

7. NEW YORK, Cal Clutterbuck 2 (Casey Cizikas) 11:23

8. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 7 (Jonathan Drouin, Victor Hedman) 19:21

Penalties ― Cizikas N 0:16, Garrison T 1:49, Nelson N 7:38


9. TAMPA BAY, Brian Boyle 2 (Victor Hedman, Ryan Callahan) 2:48 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by LIGHTNING 9 17 12 3 41

ISLANDERS 17 12 10 0 39 TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop; NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss

Power play: TB ― 1 for 4 6 for 35 in SCP, NYI ― 1 for 4 8 for 34 in SCP

Referees: Steve Kozari, Brad Watson Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers 15 795 at Barclays Center

C Brian Boyle TB, D Victor Hedman TB, RW Josh Bailey NYI game’s three stars "The first period, we weathered the storm a little bit," D Victor Hedman TB said. "It was a

great battle. We were trading goals but got a big one at the end there. It was a big win for us. We lost home-ice advantage and had to come here to win games."

F Jonathan Drouin TB left in the second period after a hit by D Thomas Hickey NYI, but returned

midway through the third. Hickey's shoulder appeared to hit Drouin in the face, snapping his head

backward at 5:42. Hickey was not given a penalty on the play.

Sunday, May 8 1500 h et on Sportsnet, NBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Victor Hedman 3 (unassisted) 6:11 GWG

2. TAMPA BAY, Brian Boyle 3 (Matthew Carle, Cedric Paquette) 18:41

Penalties ― Paquette T 0:10, Quine N 10:37

SECOND PERIOD 3. TAMPA BAY, Victor Hedman 4 (Jonathan Drouin, Tyler Johnson) 4:22 PPG

Penalties ― Hamonic N 3:40, Tavares N (double minor) Sustr T 15:38, Martin N Paquette T 19:09

THIRD PERIOD

4. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 9 (Alex Killorn) 4:40

Penalties ― Paquette T 1:57, Boychuk N 6:17, Hickey N 12:18

Shots on goal by

ISLANDERS 6 10 12 28 LIGHTNING 9 9 7 25

NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss; TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop

Power play: NYI ― 0 for 2 9 for 39 in SCP, TB ― 1 for 5 7 for 43 in SCP Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Steve Miller, Michel Cormier


D Victor Hedman TB, G Ben Bishop TB, C Brian Boyle TB game’s three stars Earlier today, Ottawa Senators name Guy Boucher their new head coach

G Ben Bishop TB shut out Islanders for last 117:14 of series D Victor Hedman TB had eight points in series

F John Tavares NYI did not score a point after second-period goal in Game One

Saturday, April 30 1521 h et on Sportsnet, NBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 3 (Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov) 6:03

2. TAMPA BAY, Jonathan Drouin 1 (Valtteri Filppula) 11:55 3. NEW YORK, Nikolay Kulemin 1 (Thomas Hickey, Alan Quine) 15:15 PPG

Penalties ― Palat T 3:12, Callahan T 8:07, Boyle T 13:32, Hamonic N 20:00

SECOND PERIOD

4. TAMPA BAY, Victor Hedman 1 (Tyler Johnson, Jonathan Drouin) 11:59 PPG

Penalties ― Drouin T 1:09, Zidlicky N 5:40, Clutterbuck N 11:11, Killorn T 18:59, Nielsen N 19:28

THIRD PERIOD 5. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 4 (Jason Garrison) 17:42 ENG

Penalties ― Strome N Marchessault T 6:33, Martin N 18:20, Clutterbuck N Marchessault T 19:22, Hickey N (double

minor) Killorn T 19:40

Shots on goal by ISLANDERS 12 5

LIGHTNING 5 14 NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss; TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop

Power play: NYI ― 1 for 5 7 for 30 in SCP, TB ― 1 for 6 5 for 31 in SCP Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen


D Victor Hedman TB, LW Jonathan Drouin TB, C Tyler Johnson TOR game’s three stars "I thought the team played really well," G Ben Bishop TB said. "We are going to have to

continue like this. We saw what we did wrong in Game 1 (a 5-3 loss on Wednesday), and I thought we did a better job possessing the puck, getting pucks deep, not really feeding their

transitions with turnovers. Obviously, when we don't do all those things, we play pretty well." "We are still three wins away from winning the series," Islanders’ centre John Tavares said.

"Obviously we want to be better than we were [Saturday]. We need to slow them down, they are obviously a quick team. So we need to be more aggressive on the forecheck."

Friday, May 6 1900 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

TAMPA BAY 2 @ NEW YORK 1 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. NEW YORK, Kyle Okposo 2 (Nikolay Kulemin, Frans Nielsen) 4:20 PPG

Penalties ― Blunden T 2:44, Callahan T (double minor) 14:41

SECOND PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Cizikas N 1:33, Boychuk N 11:42, Nelson N 18:08

THIRD PERIOD 2. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 8 (Tyler Johnson) 7:49

Penalties ― None


3. TAMPA BAY, Jason Garrison 1 (Andrej Sustr, Ondrej Palat) 1:34 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by LIGHTNING 6 11 5 2 24

ISLANDERS 16 6 6 0 28 TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop; NEW YORK, Thomas Greiss, Jean-Francois Berube (1:27 of second period),

Thomas Greiss (6:14 of second period)

Power play: TB ― 0 for 3 6 for 38 in SCP, NYI ― 1 for 3 9 for 37 in SCP Referees: Jean Hebert, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy

15 795 at Barclays Center

D Jason Garrison TB, RW Kyle Okposo NYI, G Ben Bishop TB game’s three stars "I can't ask for a better effort from our guys than we had for the last six periods," Islanders’

head coach Jack Capuano said. "That shot [by Garrison] had eyes." F Nikita Kucherov TB had 10 goals and 22 points in the Lightning's run to the Stanley Cup Final

last year, and Cooper said his performance this spring is more than luck. "He's not a one-hit wonder," Cooper said. "He did this last year in the playoffs. He carries it into the regular season and gets

30 goals. Now we're playing on the biggest stage, and he continues to amaze."



2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL

1 MET WASHINGTON CAPITALS 120 v. 2 MET PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 GM BRIAN MacLELLAN, HC BARRY TROTZ v. GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN


Thursday, April 28 1930 h et on HNIC

PITTSBURGH 3 @ WASHINGTON 4 OT

FIRST PERIOD 1. WASHINGTON, Andre Burakovsky 1 (Jason Chimera, John Carlson) 10:13

Penalties ― Cullen P 6:15, Burakovsky W 14:54

SECOND PERIOD

2. PITTSBURGH, Ben Lovejoy 1 (Nick Bonino, Carl Hagelin) 10:40 3. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 3 (Chris Kunitz, Kris Letang) 11:37

4. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie 2 (unassisted) 12:10

Penalties ― Letang P 5:15, Malkin P Wilson W 13:00

THIRD PERIOD 5. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie 3 (Alex Ovechkin) 3:23

6. PITTSBURGH, Nick Bonino 1 (Carl Hagelin, Phil Kessel) 8:42

Penalties ― Kuznetsov W 5:33, Kessel P 5:47, Lovejoy P 10:53

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 7. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie 4 (unassisted) 9:33 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by PENGUINS 9 17 13 6 45

CAPITALS 15 7 5 8 35

PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray (1.33 GAA, .955 sv pct entering game); WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby (0.84, .968)

Power play: PIT ― 0 for 2 8 for 23 in SCP, WSH ― 0 for 4 8 for 31 in SCP Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Chris Lee Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen

18 506 at Verizon Center

RW T.J. Oshie WSH, C Nick Bonino PIT, D Matt Niskanen PIT game’s three stars "I haven't won too many championships in my lifetime," F T.J. Oshie WSH said. "Maybe through

the youth years. That's kind of the stuff you dream about when you're a kid playing in the backyard by yourself is scoring the OT winner and getting a hat trick. It was awesome."

"This game could have went either way," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said. "It was an even game. Our guys played hard. I thought we carried stretches of momentum for long periods

of time. It didn't go our way. We'll learn from it, put it behind us and try to get Game 2."

Monday, May 2 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

WASHINGTON 2 @ PITTSBURGH 3

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 4 (Trevor Daley, Conor Sheary) 6:37

2. PITTSBURGH, Tom Kuhnhackl 2 (Matt Cullen, Kris Letang) 7:37

Penalties ― Williams W 8:35, Pouliot P 10:08, Letang P 15:41, Winnik W 18:09, Kessel P 19:22

SECOND PERIOD

3. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 3 (Nick Bonino, Phil Kessel) 15:03 GWG

Penalties ― Williams W 6:30

THIRD PERIOD 4. WASHINGTON, Alex Ovechkin 4 (Matt Niskanen, Nicklas Backstrom) 8:02

5. WASHINGTON, Justin Williams 1 (Alex Ovechkin, John Carlson) 19:04

Penalties ― Hagelin P 13:19

Shots on goal by CAPITALS 14 14 21 49

PENGUINS 8 6 9 23

WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby; PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray

Power play: WSH ― 0 for 4 9 for 37 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 3 8 for 31 in SCP

Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy 18 601 at CONSOL Energy Center

G Matt Murray PIT, LW Carl Hagelin WSH, LW Alex Ovechkin WSH game’s three stars

Only two teams have scored two-or-more goals in every SCP this year…Penguins and Stars Tomorrow, D Kris Letang PIT will be suspended one game for a hit he threw at 4:19 of first

period on F Marcus Johansson WSH…Letang received a minor penalty on the play F Sidney Crosby PIT has yet to record a point in this series

Saturday, May 7 1915 h et on HNIC, NBC

PITTSBURGH 1 @ WASHINGTON 3

FIRST PERIOD 1. WASHINGTON, Alex Ovechkin 5 (Nicklas Backstrom, T.J. Oshie) 4:04 PPG

2. PITTSBURGH, Chris Kunitz 1 (Phil Kessel, Sidney Crosby) 7:08 PPG

Penalties ― Rust P 3:56, Backstrom W 5:47, Cullen P Williams W 16:42, Penguins’ bench (served by Kessel) 18:34

SECOND PERIOD

3. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie 5 (Alex Ovechkin, John Carlson) 4:00 PPG GWG 4. WASHINGTON, Justin Williams 2 (unassisted) 9:58

Penalties ― Cole P 2:54, Malkin P 12:48

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Schmidt W 5:30, Bonino P 9:29

Shots on goal by

PENGUINS 12 10 9 31 CAPITALS 4 8 7 19

PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby

Power play: PIT ― 1 for 2 9 for 37 in SCP, WSH ― 2 for 5 11 for 44 in SCP

Referees: Steve Kozari, Brad Watson Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 18 506 at Verizon Center

G Braden Holtby WSH, LW Alex Ovechkin WSH, RW T.J. Oshie WSH game’s three stars

"We all got together after practice and just talked about it. And we just learned that we're really, really tight," Washington defenceman Karl Alzner said. "No one wants to be finished playing

right now. And I think you're going to see probably the best hockey that this team's played this year." "We didn't want to give up," F Alex Ovechkin WSH said. "It doesn't matter what kind of position

we are [in]. We knew we have to do it. Forget it and next one is a big one, I think, with our team and with our group. We can't stop."

Earlier today, Bruce Boudreau named new head coach of Minnesota Wild

Saturday, April 30 2025 h et on HNIC, NBC Hughson, Simpson, Healy

PITTSBURGH 2 @ WASHINGTON 1


Penalties ― Orpik W 4:13, Lovejoy P 16:29

SECOND PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 2 (Nick Bonino) 7:08

Penalties ― Kuznetsov W 1:20, Capitals’ bench (served by Johansson) 11:05, Chorney W 15:02, Kuznetsov W 17:58

THIRD PERIOD 2. WASHINGTON, Marcus Johansson 2 (John Carlson, Evgeni Kuznetsov) 4:08 PPG 3. PITTSBURGH, Eric Fehr 2 (Evgeni Malkin, Chris Kunitz) 15:32 GWG

Penalties ― Letang P 2:56, Bonino P Niskanen W 8:18

Shots on goal by PENGUINS 14 14 7 35 CAPITALS 5 5 14 24

PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; WASHINGTON, Braden Holtby

Power play: PIT ― 0 for 5 8 for 28 in SCP, WSH ― 1 for 2 9 for 33 in SCP Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers 18 506 at Verizon Center

G Braden Holtby WSH, C Eric Fehr PIT, D Matt Niskanen WSH game’s three stars Immediately prior to game, NHL conducted its Draft Lottery…order of choice in 2016 NHL Entry Draft

will be 1 Toronto Maple Leafs 2 Winnipeg Jets 3 Columbus Blue Jackets 4 Edmonton Oilers "It does feel a little bit different," said C Eric Fehr PIT, a forward who played nine seasons for

The Capitals before joining the Penguins as a free agent this offseason. "Obviously I had a lot of years here, and to be able to get that one to tie up the series and bring it back home with a split is enormous for us. You don't want to come out of here down 2-0 against the Presidents' Trophy winners. That would be a tough battle. Now we gave ourselves a chance and we're excited to get back home."

Tomorrow, Brooks Orpik WSH will be suspended three games for hit on D Olli Maatta PIT

Wednesday, May 4 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

WASHINGTON 2 @ PITTSBURGH 3 OT

FIRST PERIOD 1. WASHINGTON, Jay Beagle 2 (Tom Wilson, Taylor Chorney) 2:58 2. PITTSBURGH, Trevor Daley 1 (Patric Hornqvist, Sidney Crosby) 9:16

Penalties ― Hagelin P 15:30, Niskanen W 17:43, Hornqvist P 18:52, Chimera W 19:36

SECOND PERIOD 3. PITTSBURGH, Matt Cullen 3 (Tom Kuhnhackl, Brian Dumoulin) 3:07 4. WASHINGTON, John Carlson 4 (Justin Williams) 16:19

Penalties ― Lovejoy P 8:31, Oshie W 9:47, Wilson W Cole P 18:45


Penalties ― Alzner W 16:22

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 5. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 5 (Conor Sheary, Brian Dumoulin) 2:34 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by CAPITALS 16 9 9 2 36 PENGUINS 12 12 7 2 33


Power play: WSH ― 0 for 2 9 for 39 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 4 8 for 35 in SCP Referees: Wes McCauley, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy At CONSOL Energy Center

F Patric Hornqvist PIT, F Matt Cullen PIT, D John Carlson WSH game’s three stars "They're a good defensive team and it's the playoffs, it's hard to get scoring chances,"

F Patric Hornqvist PIT said. "But when we get them, we score, and that's part of why we win the game. … In the overtime, you need to take pucks to the net. That's how you create momentum."

Caps will try to become the 29th team (out of 290) to win a best-of-7 Stanley Cup Playoff series after trailing 3-1. Washington has lost five series when holding that lead, including last year to New York Rangers in second round. Pittsburgh has blown such a lead three times, most recently against the Rangers in 2014, also in second round.

Tuesday, May 10 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

WASHINGTON 3 @ PITTSBURGH 4 OT

FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 4 (Brian Dumoulin, Carl Hagelin) 5:41

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 2. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 5 (Kris Letang, Chris Kunitz) 7:05 PPG

3. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 4 (Olli Maatta, Trevor Daley) 7:38 PPG 4. WASHINGTON, T.J. Oshie (Nicklas Backstrom, Alex Ovechkin) 18:30 PPG

Penalties ― Orpik W (double minor) 6:25, Fehr P 13:58, Kunitz P 17:37

THIRD PERIOD 5. WASHINGTON, Justin Williams 3 (Nicklas Backstrom) 7:23

6. WASHINGTON, John Carlson 5 (Alex Ovechkin, Justin Williams) 13:01 PPG

Penalties ― Ovechkin W 3:54, Kunitz P 10:32, Bonino P 11:38, Cole P 12:34, Letang P 17:14


7. PITTSBURGH, Nick Bonino 2 (Carl Hagelin, Phil Kessel) 6:32 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

CAPITALS 10 8 18 3 39 PENGUINS 11 12 12 7 42


Power play: WSH ― 2 for 6 13 for 50 in SCP, PIT ― 2 for 3 11 for 40 in SCP

Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot

18 656 at CONSOL Energy Center

C Nick Bonino PIT, RW Phil Kessel PIT, D John Carlson WSH game’s three stars Penguins’ three successive third-period penalties were all for shooting puck over glass

Penguins reach their first Eastern Conference Final since 2013 Sidney Crosby gave a dressing-room speech before overtime…”Sid said, ‘Guys, we still have a game

here,’” D Ian Cole PIT said. “We’re still in a decent spot. We want to finish it out, everybody knows that, but we can’t stop playing. We can’t just fold this game. We’re still in a great spot. One more goal and

this game’s over. What’s past is past. You can’t do anything about it now.’” “I’ve never seen it in all the years I’ve been around the game, I’ll tell you that,” Penguins’ head coach

Mike Sullivan. “Three delay of penalties right in a row like that. That’s a tough one to swallow, you know? And I thought our guys battled through it.”



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL 1 CEN DALLAS STARS 109 v. 2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107

GM JIM NILL, HC LINDY RUFF v. GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK


Friday, April 29 2000 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN Romanuk, Johnson

ST. LOUIS 1 @ DALLAS 2

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Elliott S (served by Fabbri) 0:57, Benn D 1:57, Upshall S 17:38

SECOND PERIOD 1. DALLAS, Antoine Roussel 2 (Radek Faksa, John Klingberg) 9:36

Penalties ― Eakin D 3:43, Steen S 11:02

THIRD PERIOD

2. ST. LOUIS, Kevin Shattenkirk 2 (Colton Parayko, Patrik Berglund) 11:32 3. DALLAS, Radek Faksa 2 (Ales Hemsky, Alex Goligoski) 15:16 GWG

Penalties ― Ott S Moen D 2:45

Shots on goal by

BLUES 6 11 15 32 STARS 14 17 11 42

ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott (2.40 GAA, .929 sv pct entering series; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen (2.27, .911)

Power play: STL ― 0 for 2 5 for 20 in SCP, DAL ― 0 for 3 4 for 22 for in SCP Referees: Jean Hebert, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray

18 532 at American Airlines Center

C Radek Faksa DAL, G Brian Elliott STL, G Kari Lehtonen DAL game’s three stars

"(Radek Faksa) brings an enthusiasm, a big smile on his face, this willingness to do whatever it takes to win right now," Stars’ coach Lindy Ruff said. "He's having a great time. He's a kid

that he's enjoying every minute he plays and you can see it in his game. There isn't a battle he doesn't want to engage in, there's not a play he quits on. His play has been infectious for our team."

"Well, I think we've got to get an emotional level way up from what we just played at," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "We've got to find a gear that we were at before, and that gear

wasn't there tonight, so we've got to find it here. It doesn't matter how we do it, we're going to have to find it though."

Tuesday, May 3 2030 h ct on Sportsnet, NBCSN

DALLAS 1 @ ST. LOUIS 6

FIRST PERIOD 1. DALLAS, Colton Sceviour 2 (Jason Spezza, Johnny Oduya) 4:44

2. ST. LOUIS, Alexander Steen 2 (Paul Stastny, Troy Brouwer) 5:41 3. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 4 (Kevin Shattenkirk, Vladimir Tarasenko) 16:10 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Upshall S 13:08, Fiddler D 15:45

SECOND PERIOD

4. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 3 (Jay Bouwmeester, Alex Pietrangelo) 2:34 5. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 5 (Patrik Berglund, Robby Fabbri) 3:50

6. ST. LOUIS, Alexander Steen 3 (Vladimir Tarasenko, Jaden Schwartz) 18:03 PPG

Penalties ― Benn D 4:47, Fiddler D Demers D Reaves S 8:47, Roussel D 17:53, Bouwmeester S 18:57

THIRD PERIOD 7. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 5 (Carl Gunnarsson) 18:06

Penalties ― Benn D 9:07, Parayko S 12:42, Eakin D 14:02, McKenzie D Reaves S (majors) Johns D 16:59,

Brouwer S 17:50


BLUES 10 16 13 39 DALLAS, Antti Niemi, Kari Lehtonen (2:34 of second period); ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: DAL ― 0 for 4 4 for 30 in SCP, STL ― 2 for 7 9 for 32 for in SCP Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller


LW Alexander Steen STL, RW Vladimir Tarasenko STL, C David Backes STL game’s three stars "This is the game that we wanted to play all the way through," F Troy Brouwer STL said.

"Last game (a 4-3 overtime win for St. Louis), in the third period, we had a little bit of a letdown, sitting back on our heels a little bit too much, and we let them back into it. We made it more of a

game than we wanted it to be, and tonight I felt we just kept pushing. We kept attacking, getting pucks forward, making sure that we weren't sitting back, weren't giving the chances to try

to create offense off the transition. As a result, we were able to have some good zone time and keep the momentum in our favour."

Blues first win in 2016 SCP by more than one goal

Saturday, May 7 1200 h ct on Sportsnet, NBC


FIRST PERIOD 1. ST. LOUIS, Robby Fabbri 2 (Kevin Shattenkirk) 6:00

2. DALLAS, Alex Goligoski 4 (Vernon Fiddler, Jason Spezza) 19:58

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 3. ST. LOUIS, Dmitrij Jaskin 1 (Jay Bouwmeester, Scottie Upshall) 10:31 GWG

4. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 4 (Paul Stastny, Robby Fabbri) 17:42

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD 5. ST. LOUIS, Paul Stastny 2 (Jaden Schwartz, David Backes) 18:20 ENG

Penalties ― Backes S 4:38, Brouwer S 9:41, Janmark D 12:50, Shattenkirk S Fiddler D 14:56

Shots on goal by

BLUES 8 11 3 22 STARS 10 6 12 28

ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen

Power play: STL ― 0 for 1 10 for 36 in SCP, DAL ― 0 for 2 5 for 35 for in SCP Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers


G Brian Elliott STL, RW Dmitrij Jaskin STL, D Jay Bouwmeester STL game’s three stars "We've worked hard all series, even in the series before this, to try and give ourselves as many

opportunities to clinch as we can," F Troy Brouwer STL said. "The last time, it took us a couple more games than we would have liked. We've learned a lot from those situations, and I think

especially going home here for Game 6, it's going to be a real important game for us to try to close this out as soon as possible."

RW Dmitrij Jaskin STL played his first game since 7 April 2016

Sunday, May 1 1400 h ct on Sportsnet, NBC

ST. LOUIS 4 @ DALLAS 3 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

1. DALLAS, Alex Goligoski 3 (Jamie Benn, Cody Eakin) 3:36 2. ST. LOUIS, Patrik Berglund 2 (Robby Fabbri, David Backes) 4:11

3. ST. LOUIS, Joel Edmundson 1 (Troy Brouwer, Scottie Upshall) 7:02 4. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 2 (Kevin Shattenkirk, Robby Fabbri) 18:40 PPG

Penalties ― Lehtera S 14:52, Roussel D 17:41


Penalties ― Nichushkin D 5:31, Brouwer S 9:46, Schwartz S 13:07

THIRD PERIOD

5. DALLAS, Mattias Janmark 1 (Cody Eakin, Colton Sceviour) 4:35 6. DALLAS, Jamie Benn 5 (Cody Eakin, Kris Russell) 17:24

Penalties ― Berglund S 4:37, Roussel D 5:46


7. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 3 (Alexander Steen, Kevin Shattenkirk) 10:58 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Klingberg D 1:13, Roussel D 10:41

Shots on goal by

BLUES 5 10 2 8 25 STARS 10 6 13 5 34

ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen, Antti Niemi (start of second period)

Power play: STL ― 2 for 5 7 for 25 in SCP, DAL ― 0 for 4 4 for 26 for in SCP Referees: Steve Kozari, Brad Watson Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot


RW Troy Brouwer STL, LW Jamie Benn DAL, RW David Backes STL game’s three stars "The worst lead in hockey is a two-goal lead," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "But it's natural;

you play the score. You don't want to get caught, so you put a safety net up. It's been like that ever since I started coaching. The thing that impressed me more than anything is the way

we played in overtime. Outstanding. We went into attack mode and stayed on it the whole time. I was really impressed with the way we did OT."

The game was delayed several minutes at 4:47 of third when Jason Spezza's slap shot hit G Brian Elliott in the face, breaking his mask. After getting some medical attention, Elliott received

a new mask and remained in the game. "It hit my mask, broke the cage and surprised the heck out of me," Elliott said. "I just felt something go in there [into my eye]. I don't know if it was a paint chip."

Thursday, May 5 1900 h ct on HNIC, NBSCH

DALLAS 3 @ ST. LOUIS 2 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

1. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 6 (Jaden Schwartz) 10:17

Penalties ― Bouwmeester S 3:57, Eakin D 14:10

SECOND PERIOD 2. DALLAS, Radek Faksa 3 (unassisted) 4:05

3. DALLAS, Patrick Sharp 4 (Jamie Benn, Jason Spezza) 5:14 PPG 4. ST. LOUIS, Paul Stastny 1 (Vladimir Tarasenko, Alexander Steen) 13:06 PPG

Penalties ― Backes S 4:21, Russell D Backes S 11:11, , Eakin D 12:38, Goligoski D 13:55, Steen S 14:19

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― None

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 5. DALLAS, Cody Eakin 1 (Patrick Sharp, Jamie Benn) 2:58 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

STARS 8 10 7 3 28 BLUES 7 9 8 2 26

DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: DAL ― 1 for 3 5 for 33 in SCP, STL ― 1 for 3 10 for 35 for in SCP Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen


C Cody Eakin DAL, D Alex Pietrangelo STL, G Kari Lehtonen DAL game’s three stars

F Patrick Sharp DAL said, "It's a big goal, it's a big overtime. We've had a couple in this playoff

run we didn't get the result we wanted. We were confident, we were comfortable, we were excited about the opportunity we could win a game and go back to Dallas."

Monday, May 9 1900 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN

DALLAS 3 @ ST. LOUIS 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. DALLAS, Mattias Janmark 2 (Valeri Nichushkin) 4:53 2. DALLAS, Vernon Fiddler 1 (Colton Sceviour, Kris Russell) 5:13

3. DALLAS, Jason Spezza 5 (Colton Sceviour, Jamie Benn) 16:49 PPG GWG

Penalties ― Demers D 12:01, Brouwer S 16:14

SECOND PERIOD 4. ST. LOUIS, Alexander Steen 4 (Robert Bortuzzo, Vladimir Tarasenko) 7:29

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD

5. ST. LOUIS, Patrik Berglund 3 (Jori Lehtera, David Backes) 8:59

Penalties ― Russell D 2:41


BLUES 9 14 14 37

DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott, Jake Allen (16:49 of first period)

Power play: DAL ― 1 for 1 6 for 36 in SCP, STL ― 0 for 2 10 for 38 for in SCP

Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Steve Barton, Jonny Murray 19 808 at Scottrade Center

G Kari Lehtonen DAL, LW Alexander Steen STL, C Colton Sceviour DAL game’s three stars

"I think the goal that hurt us the most was the third goal," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "We've been down 2-0 a million times this year. Third goal was one that hurt us because we're

looking to go on a breakaway and next thing you know, it's a fluke goal that ends up in our net... and ends up being the winning goal."



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL 1 CEN DALLAS STARS 109 v. 2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107

GM JIM NILL, HC LINDY RUFF v. GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK


Wednesday, May 11 1900 h ct on Sportsnet, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD 1. ST. LOUIS, Robby Fabbri 3 (Troy Brouwer, Paul Stastny) 5:23 PPG 2. ST. LOUIS, Paul Statsny 3 (Troy Brouwer, Robby Fabbri) 18:22 GWG 3. ST. LOUIS, Patrik Berglund 4 (Jori Lehtera, David Backes) 19:56 Penalties ― Goligoski D 4:31, Lehtera S 9:38, Faksa D 14:59

SECOND PERIOD 4. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 6 (Patrik Berglund, Colton Parayko) 3:50 5. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 5 (Robby Fabbri, Paul Stastny) 15:06 Penalties ― Ott S 9:55, Schwartz S 16:11

THIRD PERIOD 6. DALLAS, Patrick Eaves 3 (Alex Goligoski, Johnny Oduya) 5:15 7. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 7 (Jaden Schwartz, Jori Lehtera) 15:20 ENG

Penalties ― None Shots on goal by BLUES 8 9 2 19 STARS 7 18 7 32 ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott; DALLAS, Kari Lehtonen, Antti Niemi (start of second period) Power play: STL ― 1 for 2 11 for 40 in SCP, DAL ― 0 for 3 6 for 39 for in SCP Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy 18 532 at American Airlines Center

G Brian Elliott STL, C Robby Fabbri STL, C Paul Stastny STL game’s three stars First G7 played at AAC by either Stars or Dallas Mavericks NBA Blues had a first-period goal by Vladimir Tarasenko disallowed by offside review

F Troy Brouwer STL plays in his eighth consecutive series that reaches G7

Lindy Ruff removed Antti Niemi from the goal with 6:00 remaining in third period

Only fourth G7 in SCP history in which road team won by as many as five goals

Blues reach their first Conference Final since 2001

Ken Hitchcock STL now 5-2 in G7…Lindy Ruff DAL 0-4 in G7

"It's taken a lot of hard work from these guys, it's taken a group that has really bound

together when we've had our back against the walls in a couple Game 7s and played our best hockey when we really needed it," David Backes, the Blues captain, said. "Good

feeling right now. We know we're one of the last four teams standing and we're halfway to our ultimate goal. We still have some work to do; it's a good feeling in this room righ now, how we came out in Game 7, played a full 60 minutes."

"To play in the conference final, I know as a coach here in Dallas (1998, 1999, 2000)

I took it for granted and it was a big mistake," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "I left here and thought all you do is play in the conference final or the Cup Final, then I went to Philadelphia and had early success there. That was 2004 and I've never been back since. Sometimes you can play your whole career and not play in the conference final, so it's pretty impressive."



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL

3 PAC SAN JOSE SHARKS 98 v. WC 1 NASHVILLE PREDATORS 96 GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER v. GM DAVID POILE, HC PETER LAVIOLETTE


Friday, April 29 1930 h pt on Sportsnet, NBCSN

NASHVILLE 2 @ SAN JOSE 5

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Karlsson S 10:52

SECOND PERIOD 1. NASHVILLE, Mike Fisher 2 (Ryan Johansen, Mattias Ekholm) 4:33 PPG

Penalties ― Nieto S 2:45, Nystrom N 5:31

THIRD PERIOD

2. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 2 (Joel Ward, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 2:37 PPG 3. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 1 (Joonas Donskoi, Brent Burns) 11:49

4. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 2 (Joe Pavelski, Brent Burns) 15:40 PPG GWG 5. NASHVILLE, Ryan Johansen 2 (Roman Josi, Colin Wilson) 18:11

6. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 3 (unassisted) 18:31 ENG 7. SAN JOSE, Tommy Wingels 1 (unassisted) 19:10 ENG

Penalties ― Johansen N 0:50, Jarnkrok N 15:20, Sissons N Polak S (double minors) Jackman N (double minor,

10-minute misconduct) 20:00

Shots on goal by PREDATORS 12 10 9 31

SHARKS 11 14 13 38 NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne (2.45 GAA, .915 sv pct entering series), Carter Hutton (19:10 of third period);

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones (2.18, .912)

Power play: NSH ― 1 for 2 2 for 28 in SCP, SJ ― 2 for 3 7 for 24 in SCP

Referees: Steve Kozari, Brad Watson Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 17 026 at SAP Center at San Jose

RW Joel Ward SJ, C Logan Couture SJ, C Tomas Hertl SJ game’s three stars

"I think it's critical," Sharks’ coach Peter DeBoer said of winning Game 1. "Coming off the break, we had some questions of how we would be. I saw some of the effects of that the first two periods.

We found a way. [Jones] made some saves and let us hang around and survive that. We got going. To be able to come out of Game 1 with a win even though I think we didn't play our best 60 minutes

is good because I think we'll be better in Game 2." "We took too many penalties," D Ryan Johansen NSH said. "It started with me on the [holding]

penalty. … We had a couple uncharacteristic mistakes from there. We have to learn from the game tonight and be ready for the next game."

Today, Brent Burns SJ, Drew Doughty LA, Erik Karlsson OTT named Norris Trophy Finalists

Tuesday, May 3 2000 h ct on SN360, USA

SAN JOSE 1 @ NASHVILLE 4

FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Patrick Marleau 2 (Tomas Hertl, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 13:13

Penalties ― Karlsson S 1:11, Burns S Bitetto N Jackman N 15:16, Arvidsson N 19:05

SECOND PERIOD

2. NASHVILLE, James Neal 3 (Mattias Ekholm, Ryan Johansen) 5:11 PPG 3. NASHVILLE, Shea Weber 3 (unassisted) 14:44 GWG

Penalties ― Donskoi S (double minor) 2:19, Nieto S 12:57, Smith N 13:57, Jackman N 18:21

THIRD PERIOD 4. NASHVILLE, Colin Wilson 3 (Ryan Ellis, Mike Fisher) 6:55

5. NASHVILLE, Filip Forsberg 2 (Roman Josi, Shea Weber) 15:49 PPG

Penalties ― Thornton S Josi N 11:08, Dillon S 14:08


PREDATORS 7 6 12 25 SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne

Power play: SJ ― 0 for 4 8 for 30 in SCP, NSH ― 2 for 5 4 for 36 for in SCP

Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Kevin Pollock Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot 17 163 at Bridgestone Arena

G Pekka Rinne NSH, D Shea Weber NSH, RW James Neal NSH game’s three stars

"It felt good," F James Neal NSH said. "I thought we had a good mindset going into the game. I think we knew we were playing good hockey, needed to be a little bit better. Coming home,

we knew we had to win one game, so big win and focus on the next one."

Sharks suffered their first road loss in this year’s SCP

Saturday, May 7 1900 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Patrick Marleau 3 (Joonas Donskoi) 10:47 2. NASHVILLE, Mike Fisher 5 (James Neal, Colin Wilson) 15:40

3. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 7 (Joe Thornton, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 17:21 GWG

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD

4. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 5 (Joonas Donskoi, Justin Braun) 0:35 5. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 8 (Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton) 19:22 PPG

Penalties ― Dillon S 10:31, Josi N 19:13, Johansen N 19:47, Ward S 19:57

THIRD PERIOD

6. SAN JOSE, Melker Karlsson 2 (Chris Tierney, Justin Braun) 19:10

Penalties ― Johansen N (minor, 10-minute misconduct) Ribeiro N (10-minute misconduct) Thornton S 16:01, Bitetto N 16:59

Shots on goal by

PREDATORS 11 5 9 25

SHARKS 13 7 9 29

NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne, Carter Hutton (16:59 of third period); SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: NSH ― 0 for 3 4 for 44 in SCP, SJ ― 1 for 3 10 for 38 for in SCP Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Derek Nansen


C Joe Pavelski SJ, C Joe Thornton SJ, C Logan Couture SJ game’s three stars "We've still got some work to do," San Jose coach Peter DeBoer said. "They're a very good

team, and we've seen that. I like the fact that I think we're getting better as the series has gone on here. I think every game we're getting a little bit better, getting more contributions, playing

better as a team. We've got to carry that into Game 6, because they're not going to roll over. We know that."

Sunday, May 1 1700 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN



Penalties ― Josi N 6:24, Ward S 13:38

SECOND PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 4 (Brent Burns, Joe Thornton) 18:36 PPG

Penalties ― Sharks’ bench (served by Donskoi) 15:16, Predators’ bench (served by Arvidsson) 18:03

THIRD PERIOD 2. NASHVILLE, Mattias Ekholm 3 (Colin Wilson, Roman Jose) 12:56 3. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 6 (Matt Nieto, Joe Thornton) 17:20 4. SAN JOSE, Joe Thornton 2 (Logan Couture, Joe Pavelski) 19:04 GWG 5. NASHVILLE, Ryan Johansen 3 (unassisted) 19:55

Penalties ― Dillon S 6:34

Shots on goal by PREDATORS 10 16 11 37 SHARKS 7 10 8 25 NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: NSH ― 0 for 3 2 for 31 in SCP, SJ ― 1 for 2 8 for 26 in SCP Referees: Chris Lee, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose

G Martin Jones SJ, G Pekka Rinne NSH, C Joe Pavelski SJ game’s three stars "It's good knowing that we have that [lead in the series], but that doesn't guarantee anything,"

F Joe Pavelski SJ said. "Coming into these playoffs there was a lot of talk about our home record. We've come out, we've played hard, the fans have been great, a lot of energy in the building. It's good to see some wins. We understand this series is only to get tougher. These guys are going to go home. They've been on the road a little bit. We have to pick up our desperation a little bit and play a better game than we did today."

"I thought they were better than us for the majority of that game," F Logan Couture SJ said. "Like I said, a lot of guys didn't bring their best effort tonight, and we got bailed out by Jones making some big saves. We spent too much time in our end. We made mistakes that we really haven't been making throughout the playoffs so far. Trying to get fancy through the neutral zone, turning pucks over, not being strong enough in our own end. We weren't our best, but we found a way. Jones was a big part of it."

Thursday, May 5 2000 h ct on Sportsnet, CNBC

SAN JOSE 3 @ NASHVILLE 4 TRIPLE OT

FIRST PERIOD 1. NASHVILLE, Colin Wilson 4 (Mattias Ekholm, Ryan Ellis) 0:41 2. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 3 (Logan Couture, Paul Martin) 3:08 3. NASHVILLE, Mike Fisher 3 (James Neal, Roman Josi) 9:50

Penalties ― Burns S 16:48

SECOND PERIOD 4. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 3 (Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Paul Martin) 14:09

Penalties ― Wingels S Forsberg N 6:38, Josi N 12:09, Braun S 18:38

THIRD PERIOD 5. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 4 (Logan Couture, Joe Thornton) 6:48 PPG 6. NASHVILLE, James Neal 4 (Ryan Ellis, Colin Wilson) 15:39

Penalties ― Burns S 0:32, Salomaki N 3:43, Jackman N 6:43

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― Vlasic S 9:02

SECOND OVERTIME PERIOD NO SCORING

Penalties ― Thornton S 2:56, Weber N 17:57

THIRD OVERTIME PERIOD 7. NASHVILLE, Mike Fisher 4 (Mattias Ekholm, Colin Wilson) 11:12 GWG

Penalties ― Weber N 7:59

Shots on goal by SHARKS 5 12 5 9 11 5 47 PREDATORS 10 8 9 11 4 3 45 SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne

Power play: SJ ― 1 for 5 9 for 35 in SCP, NSH ― 0 for 5 4 for 41 for in SCP Referees: Gord Dwyer, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot 17 188 at Bridgestone Arena

C Mike Fisher NSH, G Pekka Rinne NSH, C Colin Wilson NSH game’s three stars "It was a huge game, obviously, to tie the series up," Nashville forward Filip Forsberg said.

"Coming out for every period, the fans just got more and more crazy out there. It was pretty awesome actually. I guess that's what kind of drives us."

Monday, May 9 1800 h pt on Sportsnet, CNBC

SAN JOSE 3 @ NASHVILLE 4 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Chris Tierney 2 (Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Tomas Hertl) 9:55

2. SAN JOSE, Chris Tierney 3 (Matt Nieto, Brent Burns) 11:51 3. NASHVILLE, Roman Josi 1 (unassisted) 15:27

Penalties ― Vlasic S Smith N 19:48

SECOND PERIOD 4. NASHVILLE, Ryan Johansen 4 (Ryan Ellis) 1:25

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD

5. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 6 (Brent Burns, Joe Thornton) 10:04 PPG 6. NASHVILLE, Colin Wilson 5 (James Neal, Mike Ribeiro) 12:44

Penalties ― Pavelski S 2:07, Salomaki N 8:59

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 7. NASHVILLE, Viktor Arvidsson 1 (Miikka Salomaki, Pekka Rinne) 2:03 GWG

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 8 4 5 1 18 PREDATORS 5 14 11 2 32

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne

Power play: SJ ― 1 for 1 11 for 39 in SCP, NSH ― 0 for 1 4 for 45 for in SCP Referees: Jean Hebert, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Jay Sharrers

17 292 at Bridgestone Arena

LW Viktor Arvidsson NSH, LW Colin Wilson NSH, C Ryan Johansen NSH game’s three stars

"Once we got going and got back to doing the things that make us successful and playing Preds’

hockey, we were unstoppable at times," C Ryan Johansen NSH said. "We played a great game the last 45 minutes, and hats off to every guy in this room, being resilient and not quitting

and finding a way to win."



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMI-FINAL

3 PAC SAN JOSE SHARKS 98 v. WC 1 NASHVILLE PREDATORS 96 GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER v. GM DAVID POILE, HC PETER LAVIOLETTE


Thursday, May 12 1800 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 9 (Patrick Marleau, Joe Thornton) 9:02 PPG GWG 2. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 2 (Melker Karlsson, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 16:51 Penalties ― Arvidsson N 8:22, Weber N 18:22

SECOND PERIOD 3. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 7 (unassisted) 0:36 Penalties ― Ekholm N 20:00

THIRD PERIOD 4. SAN JOSE, Joe Thornton 3 (Logan Couture) 0:32 PPG 5. SAN JOSE, Patrick Marleau 4 (Logan Couture, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 3:54 Penalties ― Braun S 14:34 Shots on goal by PREDATORS 3 5 12 20 SHARKS 17 6 4 27 NASHVILLE, Pekka Rinne, Carter Hutton (3:54 of third period); SAN JOSE, Martin Jones Power play: NSH ― 0 for 1 4 for 46 in SCP, SJ ― 2 for 3 13 for 42 for in SCP Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Brad Watson Linesmen: Steve Miller, Michel Cormier 17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose

C Logan Couture SJ, C Joe Thornton SJ, G Martin Jones SJ game’s three stars Before leaving the game in third period, Pekka Rinne slammed his stick on the post

until it broke, then threw the broken pieces behind the net…he was not happy Sharks reach Conference Final for fourth time in their history "It didn't help that they scored right away in the second period," frustrated

G Pekka Rinne NSH said. "Tonight they outplayed us. They got off to a good start and we were unable to match it. It's very difficult right now. We worked so hard to get to this point. You never know when you're going to get this chance. Guys get older. That's the worst feeling. It's an empty feeling."

"We've been saying it all year, we're just deep," C Joe Thornton SJ said. "We have a deep team. We roll four lines. We roll with six [defensemen]. We have so much trust with each other that whoever goes over the board we have confidence they will do that job."

F Logan Couture’s 11 pts in series sets Sharks’ team record (Igor Larionov 10, ’94 v DET)

F Joe Pavelski SJ is tied for Stanley Cup Playoff lead in goals with Nikita Kucherov TB w/ 9



2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

2 MET PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 v. 2 ATL TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 97 GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN v. GM STEVE YZERMAN, HC JON COOPER


Friday, May 13 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN Hughson, Craig Simpson, Healy

TAMPA BAY 3 @ PITTSBURGH 1

FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Alex Killorn 6 (Victor Hedman) 18:46

Takes long stretch pass from Hedman, beats Maatta and slides puck through Murray’s legs

Penalties ― Callahan T (major) 2:50

SECOND PERIOD 2. TAMPA BAY, Ondrej Palat 3 (Valtteri Filppula, Jason Garrison) 2:33 PPG GWG

Murray kicks out rebound of Filppula shot, and Palat backhands that rebound into open glove side 3. TAMPA BAY, Jonathan Drouin 2 (Ondrej Palat, Valtteri Filppula) 18:25

On a two-on-one, takes Palat’s pass in circle and one-times it past Murray’s glove side 4. PITTSBURGH, Patrik Hornqvist 6 (Sidney Crosby, Phil Kessel) 19:05 PPG

Takes no-look, between-the-legs pass from Crosby and fires shot over Vasilevskiy’s shoulder fr circle

Penalties ― Malkin P 1:46, Nesterov T 7:50, Cullen P 10:50, Callahan T 18:49


Penalties ― Palat T 15:14, Hornqvist P 20:00

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 6 9 5 20

PENGUINS 10 9 16 35 TAMPA BAY, Ben Bishop (1.89 GAA, .938 sv pct entering series), Andrei Vasilevskiy (12:25 of first period);

PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray (2.05, .935)

Power play: TB ― 1 for 2 8 for 45 in SCP, PIT ― 1 for 4 12 for 44 in SCP Referees: Wes McCauley, Francis Charron Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Jonny Murray

18 554 at CONSOL Energy Center TB dressed ― 5 D Garrison, 9 F Johnson, 11 F Boyle, 13 F Paquette, 17 F Killorn, 18 F Palat, 23 F Brown, 24 F Callahan, 25 D Carle, 29 D Koekkoek, 27 F Drouin, 51 F Filppula, 55 D Coburn, 62 D Sustr, 77 D Hedman, 86 F Kucherov, 89 D Nesterov, 90 F Namestnikov, 30 G Bishop, 88 G Vasilevskiy

PIT dressed ― 3 D Maatta, 6 D Daley, 7 F Cullen, 8 D Dumoulin, 12 D Lovejoy, 13 F Bonino, 14 F Kunitz, 16 F Fehr, 17 F Rust, 28 D Cole, 34 F Kuhnhackl, 43 F Sheary, 58 D Letang, 62 F Hagelin, 71 F Malkin, 72 F Hornqvist, 81 F Kessel, 87 F Crosby, 29 G Fleury, 30 G Murray

LW Ondrej Palat TB, LW Jonathan Drouin TB, RW Patric Hornqvist PIT game’s three stars Ben Bishop TB, with 7:35 remaining in first period, does something to his left ankle and shin and is in

serious pain…he was removed on a stretcher…"We're hoping for the best," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said, noting that X-rays on Bishop came back negative…he would not play again in 2016 SCP

With 36.4 seconds remaining in first period, F Tyler Johnson TB takes a knee-on-knee hit from Chris Kunitz PIT on end boards and Johnson is helped to Lightning dressing room favouring right knee…

he returned to Lightning bench in middle of second period In the second period, G Kristers Gudlevskis TB appeared dressed in Lightning bench

Entering this game Sidney Crosby PIT has not scored in seven games, Evgeni Malkin PIT in six "They defend hard. They block shots," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said. "They have people in the

lanes. They have good support mechanism built in place when somebody gets beat. I thought we generated a fair amount of chances. We have to find a way to convert."

Game marked fourth time in last 35 years that two goalies aged 21-or-younger faced each other in SCP game…Barrasso BUF v. Gosselin QUE 1985, Ranford BOS v. Roy MTL 1986 and

Ranford BOS v.Roy MTL 1987

Wednesday, May 18 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

PITTSBURGH 4 @ TAMPA BAY 2

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Hornqvist P 17:42

SECOND PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 5 (Phil Kessel) 19:50

Kessel just speeds down right side, shoots, and Hagelin buries rebound from slot

Penalties ― Callahan T 3:57

THIRD PERIOD

2. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 7 (Nick Bonino, Carl Hagelin) 5:16 Takes pass cruising through slot and snaps it quickly high glove side on Vasilevskiy

3. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 5 (Nikita Kucherov, Ondrej Palat) 5:30 Flying down centre ice, Johnson takes little pass from Kucherov, breaks in and snaps it glove side

4. PITTSBURGH, Sidney Crosby 5 (Evgeni Malkin, Justin Schultz) 10:50 PPG GWG

On PP, takes pass standing on face-off dot and just blasts a one-timer past Vasilevskiy

5. PITTSBURGH, Chris Kunitz 2 (unassisted) 13:12 Misses on a two-on-one, but circles and puck comes back to him…snaps it high glove side

6. TAMPA BAY, Ondrej Palat 4 (Nikita Kucherov, Matthew Carle) 18:16 Takes pass between circles and one-times it high past Murray’s glove side

Penalties ― Letang P Palat T 9:05, Coburn T 9:53, Coburn T 14:12, Daley P Killorn T (minor, 10-minute

misconduct) 19:41


LIGHTNING 12 6 10 28 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy

Power play: PIT― 1 for 3 13 for 49 in SCP, TB ― 0 for 1 8 for 47 in SCP

Referees: Kelly Sutherland, Eric Furlatt Linesmen: Scott Cherrey, Pierre Racicot 19 092 at Amalie Arena

PIT changes ― None TB changes ― 90 F Namestnikov out; 24 F Callahan in

C Phil Kessel PIT, LW Carl Hagelin PIT, C Sidney Crosby PIT game’s three stars "They are a responsible line on both ends," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said of Hagelin,

Bonino and Kessel. "[Bonino and Hagelin] obviously kill penalties and have great awareness defensively. I think [Kessel's] game has come a long way away from the puck. They are a line that

we have a comfort level with." "You have to give them credit," Lightning forward Tyler Johnson said. "They play hard, they use each

other very well. I thought we had a great first period. We were all over them, but that second period, we had a little bit of a letdown, and that just can't happen."

Monday, May 16 2000 h et on HNIC, NBSCN

TAMPA BAY2 @ PITTSBURGH 3 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Matt Cullen 4 (Rick Fehr, Kris Letang) 4:32

Passes on two-on-one, but bouncing puck comes back to him and he fires it high stick side 2. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 6 (Nick Bonino, Carl Hagelin) 9:37

Bonino’s shot from slot is blocked but Kessel, who’s flying in from circle, pounds it in open stick side 3. TAMPA BAY, Anton Stralman 1 (Jonathan Marchessault, Victor Hedman) 16:37

As trailer on Lightning rush, Stralman takes pass in circle and snaps it top shelf, glove side on Murray 4. TAMPA BAY, Jonathan Drouin 3 (J.T. Brown, Matthew Carle) 19:10

Coming down his off wing, a la Mark Messier, snaps one between Murray’s right arm and body

Penalties ― Killorn T 13:23, Drouin T 16:53

SECOND PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Murray P (served by Palat) 7:02


Penalties ― None


5. PITTSBURGH, Sidney Crosby 4 (Bryan Rust, Brian Dumoulin) 0:40 GWG Takes little drop pass in high slot and snaps it quickly high, stick side on Vasilevskiy

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 8 7 6 0 21 PENGUINS 14 8 16 3 41

TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy; PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray

Power play: TB ― 0 for 1 8 for 46 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 2 12 for 46 in SCP Referees: Gord Dwyer, Dan O’Halloran Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller

18 534 at CONSOL Energy Center TB changes ― 30 G Bishop out (lower left leg), 50 G Gudlevskis in; 24 F Callahan out (flu), 81 F Jonathan Marchessault in PIT changes ― 3 D Maatta out, 4 D Schultz in

C Sidney Crosby PIT, D Kris Letang PIT, LW Jonathan Drouin TB game’s three stars

"[I] was just happy," said F Sidney Crosby PIT, who has played 113 postseason games since the Penguins selected him with the No. 1 pick in the 2005 NHL Draft. "Whether I've scored in the last

seven games or haven't scored in the last whatever, it feels good to get rewarded. I think we deserved that one tonight."

D Anton Stralman TB played his first game since fracturing his left fibula on 25 March 2016 v. Islanders…played 18:39 over 23 shifts in tonight’s game

Friday, May 20 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD 1. TAMPA BAY, Ryan Callahan 2 (Victor Hedman, J.T. Brown) 0:27

Hedman’s waist-high wrist shot from point is tipped in by Callahan 2. TAMPA BAY, Andrej Sustr 1 (Nikita Kucherov, Alex Killorn) 14:28

Takes beautiful pass fr Kucherov as he’s cruising to net…simply re-directs it glove side past Murray

Penalties ― Hagelin P 1:10, Penuins’ bench (served by Kessel) 7:59, Kunitz P Brown T 18:00

SECOND PERIOD 3. TAMPA BAY, Jonathan Drouin 4 (Ondrej Palat, Victor Hedman) 14:38 PPG

Drouin tries to slide pass through slot, puck hits skate and comes right back to him…open stick side 4. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 6 (Nikita Kucherov, Alex Killorn) 17:48 GWG

Lightning work nice tic-tac-toe around net and final pass goes off Johnson’s right shin pad and in

Penalties ― Kucherov T 2:11, Drouin T 5:59, Letang P (double minor) Cullen P Boyle T 11:38, Killorn T 15:17

THIRD PERIOD 5. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 8 (Nick Bonino, Brian Dumoulin) 1:18

Comes down right side and snaps a beauty by Vasilevskiy low stick side 6. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 4 (Ian Cole) 11:13

Malkin moves in…holds on…holds on…then snaps one stick side on Vasilevskiy 7. PITTSBURGH, Chris Kunitz 3 (Justin Schultz, Conor Sheary) 13:08 PPG

On PP, Vasilevskiy kicks rebound right to Kunitz to swats it in open glove side

Penalties ― Killorn T 11:26


LIGHTNING 18 12 7 37 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray, Marc-André Fleury (start of third period); TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy


Referees: Brad Watson, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy 19 092 at Amalie Arena

PIT changes ― None TB changes ― 89 D Nesterov out, 90 F Namestnikov in

RW Ryan Callahan TB, D Victor Hedman TB, G Andrei Vasilevskiy TB game’s three stars F Tyler Johnson TB took a puck off the face in pre-game warm-up…got fitted with a cage and

returned to Lightning bench just after Callahan’s game-opening goal In second period, D Trevor Daley PIT left game after twisting left knee and ankle against boards…he left

rink on crutches following the game When G Marc-André Fleury PIT entered game in third period, it was his first NHL action in 50 days

"It doesn't matter how you get there," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "Sure we elevated the heart rate of 18,000 people. We felt we deserved to be where we were. Did I think [Johnson's] goal was

going to end up being the game-winner? No, I didn't. But I didn't think we ever really lost control of

the game."



2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

2 MET PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 v. 2 ATL TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING 97 GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN v. GM STEVE YZERMAN, HC JON COOPER


Sunday, May 22 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

TAMPA BAY 4 @ PITTSBURGH 3 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Brian Dumoulin 1 (Bryan Rust, Chris Kunitz) 19:59 As period is ending, Rust muscles his way past D and to net…then Dumoulin stuffs his rebound in

Penalties ― Carle T Malkin P 9:11, Johnson T 10:36

SECOND PERIOD

2. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 7 (Carl Hagelin, Olli Maatta) 1:30 Hagelin receives long, low shot from point and one-times it to Hornqvist, who he has open glove side

3. TAMPA BAY, Alex Killorn 5 (Andrej Sustr) 13:15 Just wires one from half-boards past Fleury (who’s already on his knees) short-side high

4. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 10 (Vladislav Namestnikov) 14:25 With Fleury flailing and flopping, Kucherov one-times Namesnikov’s pass into open stick side

5. PITTSBURGH, Chris Kunitz 4 (Evgeni Malkin, Olli Maatta) 19:10 As Vasilevskiy dives to smother puck, Kunitz stuffs it under him from slot

Penalties ― Letang P 7:42, Kucherov T 11:02

THIRD PERIOD

6. TAMPA BAY, Nikita Kucherov 11 (Tyler Johnson, Ondrej Palat) 16:44

Fleury makes original save, but kicks it right to Kucherov who wheels around net and wraps it in

Penalties ― Maatta P (double minor) 2:36, Johnson T 4:43


7. TAMPA BAY, Tyler Johnson 7 (Jason Garrison, Nikita Kucherov) 0:53 GWG Garrison takes pass in circle, waits, then snaps one off Johnson’s jersey and over Fleury’s glove

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 4 9 11 1 25 PENGUINS 8 13 12 1 34

TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy; PITTSBURGH, Marc-André Fleury

Power play: TB ― 0 for 3 9 for 54 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 3 14 for 56 in SCP

Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Jonny Murray 16 848 at CONSOL Energy Center

TB changes ― None PIT changes ― 6 D Daley (broken left ankle) out; 19 F Bennett in

RW Nikita Kucherov TB, D Jason Garrison TB, LW Chris Kunitz TB game’s three stars

When teams are tied 2-2 in a best-of-7 playoffs series, winner of G5 holds an all-time series record of 192-53 (78.3%)

"We're in the exact same position we were in last year [against the New York Rangers in the conference

final]," F Tyler Johnson TB said. "We were able to win and go back home, and we want to get [the win this year] in Game 6 in front of our home fans."

This was Penguins’ first loss this season, incl. SCP, when leading after two periods…were 46-0-0 "It wasn't the best I've felt in a game," said G Marc-André Fleury PIT, who had backed up Murray

since being cleared to return for Game 3 of the second round against the Washington Capitals. "Still though, I've been practicing a lot. I should've been better. … It's tough to lose."

Thursday, May 26 2015 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

TAMPA BAY 1 @ PITTSBURGH 2


Penalties ― Malkin P 6:52, Boyle P 7:23

SECOND PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 4 (Chris Kunitz, Evgeni Malkin)1:55 Stretch pass from Maatta ultimately sends Rust in alone, he snaps one high glove side on Vasilevskiy

2. TAMPA BAY, Jonathan Drouin 5 (Valtteri Filppula, Victor Hedman) 9:36 Steps across high slot and wrists a beauty high glove that Murray probably should have had

3. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 5 (Ben Lovejoy, Evgeni Malkin) 10:06 GWG , Puck misses net, Vasilevskiy tries to smother it bus misses it and Rust stuffs it in…so weak

Penalties ― Paquette T Cole P 2:55, Callahan T 12:23, Drouin T 14:54, Letang P 15:13, Hedman T 16:54

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Kucherov T 10:38

Shots on goal by

LIGHTNING 5 5 7 17 PENGUINS 8 21 10 39

TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy; PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray

Power play: TB ― 0 for 1 9 for 56 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 5 15 for 64 in SCP Referees: Wes McCauley, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Jonny Murray

18 638 at CONSOL Energy Center TB changes ― 81 F Marchessault out, 91 F Stamkos in PIT changes ― None

RW Bryan Rust PIT, G Matt Murray PIT, C Evgeni Malkin PIT game’s three stars

F Steven Stamkos TB returned to Lightning line-up (after blood-clot surgery) for first time since 31 March 2016 v. Montréal Canadiens

"The big dream is still yet to be achieved," F Bryan Rust PIT said. "I credit my linemates for elevating their game and helping me elevate mine. It just happens that I was the one who put the pucks in

the net." Penguins reach their first SCF since they won 2009 Stanley Cup

"I think we have evolved into a team in the true sense of the word," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan (who took over the bench from Mike Johnston on 12 December 2015) said, "and I think tonight, that

was on display. We wanted to play in their face and in the gaps tight … I think we took the speed away that makes Tampa Bay so dangerous. I know there's a lot of stories that surround this group, but the

greatest story of all is the group itself."

Tuesday, May 24 2000 h et on HNIC, NBSCN


FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 9 (Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin) 18:46

Playing 5-on-3, shows great skill swatting a cross-slot, knee-high pass from Crosby into stick side

Penalties ― Malkin P 14:20, Stralman T 17:09, Hedman T 17:50

SECOND PERIOD 2. PITTSBURGH, Kris Letang 2 (Conor Sheary, Nick Bonino) 7:40

Takes drop pass entering zone and snaps a screened shot high stick side past Vasilevskiy 3. PITTSBURGH, Sidney Crosby 6 (Patric Hornqvist) 19:34 GWG

Breaks in alone and snaps one quickly through Vasilevskiy’s legs

Penalties ― Palat T 10:06

THIRD PERIOD 4. TAMPA BAY, Brian Boyle 4 (unassisted) 5:30

Boyle backhands puck toward net and Kessel tries to swat it away, but swats it right into his own net 5. TAMPA BAY, Brian Boyle 5 (Slater Koekkoek, Jonathan Drouin) 12:43

Knocks down bouncing puck in circle, then snaps a seeing-eye shot high stick side on kneeling Murray 6. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 3 (Chris Kunitz, Olli Maatta) 17:52

Breaks in alone from centre ice and dekes Vasilevskiy to glove side…game over 7. PITTSBURGH, Nick Bonino 3 (Ben Lovejoy) 19:06 ENG

Flips one from just inside Lightning blueline into empty net

Penalties ― None


LIGHTNING 4 7 20 31 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; TAMPA BAY, Andrei Vasilevskiy


Referees: Gord Dwyer, Dan O’Halloran Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Steve Miller 19 092 at Amalie Arena

PIT changes ― 19 F Bennett out, 3 D Maatta in TB changes ― None

C Sidney Crosby PIT, C Brian Boyle TB, D Kris Letang PIT game’s three stars "He doesn't get rattled," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said of G Matt Murray PIT. "If he lets a goal

in, he just continues to compete. … Usually it takes years to acquire that, and to have it at such a young age is impressive. That's always impressed us about him. Certainly it's impressed me since

I've got to know him and watch him as a goaltender but also as a person." "They played better than us for two periods," Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. "All their players

pretty much played better than all our players for 40 minutes. All our players played probably better than them for 20 minutes. We have to play better. That's the bottom line. Usually the team that plays

better wins."



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107 v. 3 PAC SAN JOSE SHARKS 98 GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK v. GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER


Sunday, May 15 1900 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN Cole, Johnson, Chris Simpson

SAN JOSE 1 @ ST. LOUIS 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. ST. LOUIS, David Backes 7 (Kevin Shattenkirk, Jaden Schwartz) 15:04 PPG On PP, high shot from point hits Backes’ stick as he is actually trying to duck out of the way

2. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 3 (Joe Pavelski, Brent Burns) 15:38 Slapshot from point is double-deflcted by Pavelski’s stick, then goes off Hertl’s right foot

Penalties ― Lehtera StL 3:56, Couture SJ 13:56, Ott StL 17:18

SECOND PERIOD

3. ST. LOUIS, Jori Lehtera 2 (unassisted) 9:15 GWG Burns coughs it up, Lehtera steps into circle and fires one between Jones’ left arm and body...horrible

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Stastny StL 8:44, Hertl SJ 11:06

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 8 16 8 32

BLUES 11 5 7 23 SAN JOSE, Martin Jones (2.16 GAA, .918 sv pct entering series); ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott (2.29, .929)

Power play: SJ ― 0 for 3 13 for 45 in SCP, STL ― 1 for 2 12 for 42 in SCP

Referees: Eric Furlatt, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot


SJ dressed ― 4 D Dillon, 7 D Martin, 8 F Pavelski, 9 F Zubrus, 12 F Marleau, 16 F Spaling, 19 F Thornton, 27 F Donskoi, 39 F Couture, 42 F Ward, 44 D Vlasic, 46 D Polak, 48 F Hertl, 50 F Tierney, 57 F Wingels, 61 D Braun,

68 F Karlsson, 88 D Burns, 31 G Jones, 34 G Reimer

STL dressed ― 4 D Gunnarsson, 6 D Edmundson, 9 F Ott, 10 F Upshall, 12 F Lehtera, 15 F Fabbri, 17 F Schwartz, 19 D Bouwmeester, 20 F Steen, 21 F Berglund, 22 D Shattenkirk, 26 F Stastny, 27 D Pietrangelo, 28 F Brodziak,

36 F Brouwer, 42 F Backes, 55 D Parayko, 91 F Tarasenko, 1 G Elliott, 34 G Allen

G Brian Elliott STL, C David Backes STL, C Jori Lehtera STL game’s three stars At 11:35 of first period, Patrik Berglund STL scored a goal while backing into Martin Jones…after

review, goal is disallowed, but no goaltender interference penalty is assessed Blues trying to reach their first SCF since 1970…Sharks trying to reach their first

"We haven't played a team like this," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "The other two series [against the Chicago Blackhawks and Dallas Stars] were similar. This series, and this team that

we're playing against, is completely different. This is no different than playing Los Angeles. They're a heavy, hard team, strong on the puck, a lot of wall battles. We haven't had a series like this. It took us

two periods just to get close to the emotional level on the compete side to get going. We'll be a lot better in Game 2."

Thursday, May 19 1815 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN

ST. LOUIS 0 @ SAN JOSE 3

FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 4 (Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton) 15:53 GWG Hertl steps into circle with puck and just blasts a bomb over Elliott’s glove

Penalties ― Pietrangelo StL 19:52

SECOND PERIOD

2. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 4 (Logan Couture) 11:44 Late man on the play, takes the pass between circles and snaps a beauty high stick side on Elliott

Penalties ― Couture SJ 15:01

THIRD PERIOD

3. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 5 (Joe Thornton, Joe Pavelski) 6:09 Takes pass from Thornton behind net, swoops in front and fires it five-hole past Elliott…Jake Allen in

Penalties ― Pietrangelo StL 19:14

Shots on goal by

BLUES 9 6 7 22 SHARKS 7 6 3 16

ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliottt, Jake Allen (6:09 of third period); SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: STL ― 0 for 1 12 for 49 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 2 15 for 52 in SCP Referees: Francis Charron, Wes McCauley Linesmen: Greg Devorski, Jonny Murray


STL changes ― 9 F Ott out, 23 F Jaskin in; F 10 Upshall out, 56 F Magnus Paajarvi in; D 6 Edmundson out, 41 D Bortuzzo in

SJ changes ― None

C Tomas Hertl SJ, C Joe Thornton SJ, G Martin Jones SJ game’s three stars Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock, needing three goals, removed Jake Allen from goal for extra skater,

with 5:31 remaining in third period…Blues recorded only two shots on goal in that end-of-game span "It's a long ways to go," Sharks’ captain Joe Pavelski said. "It really is. We'll worry about this next

game and we'll take it from there. Got to have that same kind of energy. The crowd was great. It's a fun atmosphere out there."

Blues have gone 150:45 in this series without scoring on G Martin Jones SJ…first time in

Blues’ SCP history that they have been shut out in two consecutive games

Tuesday, May 17 1900 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Tommy Wingels 2 (Dainius Zubrus, Justin Braun) 2:07 GWG Takes pass in high slot and quickly snaps one stick side on Elliott

Penalties ― Backes StL 11:26, Tierney SJ 13:38

SECOND PERIOD

2. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 5 (Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture) 7:04 PPG On PP, comes cruising in from point and one-times Pavelski’s pass stick-side past helpless Elliott

Penalties ― Couture SJ 4:45, Brouwer StL 6:46, Ott StL 8:03

THIRD PERIOD

3. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 6 (Patrick Marleau, Logan Couture) 11:58 PPG

On PP, one-times a shot from top of circle that beats Elliott glove side…weak goal 4. SAN JOSE, Dainius Zubrus 1 (unassisted) 19:41 ENG

Fires puck into empty net with 18.4 seconds remaining

Penalties ― Marleau SJ (double minor) 0:32, Bouwmeester StL 5:00, Brouwer StL 11:34, Polak StL 13:19, Martin SJ 14:55

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 10 9 5 24 BLUES 9 6 11 26

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott

Power play: SJ ― 2 for 5 15 for 50 in SCP, STL ― 0 for 6 12 for 48 in SCP Referees: Dan O’Rourke, Brad Watson Linesmen: Brad Kovachik, Brian Murphy

19 596 at Scottrade Center SJ changes ― None STL changes ― None

D Brent Burns SJ, G Martin Jones SJ, C Logan Couture SJ game’s three stars

"I think we just played that game for longer periods," Sharks’ coach Peter DeBoer said. "I was happy with the second [period] and parts of the third in Game 1. I thought we brought our good game to

the rink tonight for longer periods. Getting the first goal was big. I knew our power play would bounce back. It always has all year. But, you know, I liked our 5-on-5 game. We got contributions

from everyone."

Saturday, May 21 1625 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 6 (Robby Fabbri, Paul Stastny) 6:14 PPG On PP, Fabbri takes pass below goal line, sends one-timer to Brouwer in slot, who fires it past Jones

2. ST. LOUIS, Jori Lehtera 3 (unassisted) 10:11 Jones makes incredible save with paddle of his stick, but puck bounces to Lehtera, who has open net

Penalties ― Burns SJ 5:00, Stastny StL 10:28, Vlasic SJ 19:36

SECOND PERIOD

3. ST. LOUIS, Kyle Brodziak 1 (Jaden Schwartz) 6:09 SHG Playing SH, Blues break in 2-on-1…Brodziak takes pass, Jones overcommits, shot goes high stick

4. ST. LOUIS, Kyle Brodziak 2 (Dmitrij Jaskin, Magnus Paajarvi) 10:11 GWG Pass comes from behind net and Broziak snaps it high glove on Jones…James Reimer in

Penalties ― Couture SJ 0:48, Shattenkirk StL 5:10, Brouwer StL Thornton SJ 11:38

THIRD PERIOD

5. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 10 (Joe Thornton, Paul Martin) 1:05

Cuts to net, from blueline, and re-directs Thornton’s pass perfectly into open glove side past Allen 6. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 7 (Alexander Steen, Paul Stastny) 3:55 PPG

On PP, tips low point slapshot over Reimer’s glove-side shoulder 7. SAN JOSE, Chris Tierney 4 (unassisted) 6:57

Bit of a scramble around Allen and puck lands on Tierney’s stick and he jams it in open stick side 8. ST. LOUIS, Alex Pietrangelo 2 (unassisted) 15:39 ENG

Just spins and fires puck from his own zone into just-vacated empty net…and it rolls all the way in 9. SAN JOSE, Melker Karlsson 3 (unassisted) 16:28

Puck goes off Karlsson’s skate at edge of crease and, for some reason, Edmundson puts it in own net

Penalties ― Ward SJ 3:48, Schwartz StL 7:07, Stastny StL 10:51, Gunnarsson StL Dillon SJ (majors) Steen StL Wingels SJ (10-minute misconducts) 17:49, Lehtera StL 19:20

Shots on goal by

BLUES 13 9 5 27 SHARKS 10 8 16 34

ST. LOUIS, Jake Allen; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones, James Reimer (10:11 of second period)

Power play: STL ― 2 for 4 14 for 53 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 5 15 for 57 in SCP Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Gord Dwyer Linesmen: Steve Miller, Michel Cormier

17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose STL changes ― 41 D Bortuzzo out, D 6 Edmundson in SJ changes ― None

C Kyle Brodziak STL, RW Troy Brouwer STL, C Chris Tierney SJ game’s three stars

Last time G Jake Allen STL started a game was 3 April @ Colorado Avalanche G James Reimer SJ made his first appearance in 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs…last played a game on

5 April in Minnesota…and last made a SCP appearance on 13 May 2013 for Leafs in Boston First Conference Finals since 1980 that all eight netminders have played in round

"He gave us exactly what we needed," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said of G Jake Allen. "He's a competitive son of a gun. We needed a battler in there. We needed somebody to really help us play

better defence. We played with more passion in front of him in our own zone because I made the goalie change. I had to make that decision. I just felt like we were allowing them too much open space with

[Elliott] in there, and [he] was getting bombarded. We needed to just dig in a little bit deeper defensively if we were going to have a chance in this series."

"We got away from our game," Sharks forward Tommy Wingels said. "Our game is going north with it,

it's making plays when they're there. It's getting pucks past their [defencemen], through the neutral

zone and in on the forecheck. And we got away from that. We turned pucks over, we turned it into a track meet for the first 20-30 minutes, and this team's not going to win when we play that way."



2016 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINAL

2 CEN ST. LOUIS BLUES 107 v. 3 PAC SAN JOSE SHARKS 98 GM DOUG ARMSTRONG, HC KEN HITCHCOCK v. GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER


Monday, May 23 1915 h ct on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Marc-Edouard Vlasic 1 (Joe Pavelski, Joe Thornton) 3:51 Vlasic takes soft wrister from the point and Allen just watches it drift by his glove…so weak

2. ST. LOUIS, Jaden Schwartz 4 (David Backes, Patrik Berglund) 7:04 Shot from circle doesn’t make it to net and Schwartz scoops it up and flips it past stunned Jones

3. ST. LOUIS, Troy Brouwer 8 (Paul Stastny, Alexander Steen) 15:08 Jones makes blocker save on Stastny, is lazy moving to puck, and Brouwer swats it out of air and in

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD

4. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 3 (Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Paul Martin) 4:37 PPG On PP, Vlasic snaps one off short side post, it bounces behind Allen and he swats it out of air and in

5. ST. LOUIS, Robby Fabbri (Colton Parayko, Alex Pietrangelo) 11:58 PPG On PP, Fabbri just blasts one from blueline that beats Jones cleanly five-hole…yet another weak one

6. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski (Joe Thornton, Logan Couture) 18:33 PPG On PP, Thornton w/ puck behind net, slides pass to wide open Pavelski in slot…scores high glove

Penalties ― Wingels SJ (major) Shattenkirk StL (minor, major) 2:38, Braun SJ 8:03, Polak SJ (minor, major)

Jaskin StL (major) 11:01, Shattenkirk StL 17:08

THIRD PERIOD 7. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 12 (Brent Burns, Tomas Hertl) 0:16 GWG

Waist-high wrister from Burns at point tipped beautifully by Pavelski 8. SAN JOSE, Chris Tierney 5 (Joe Thornton) 19:06 ENG

Takes pass from Thornton behind net and wraps it around into untended goal

9. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 4 (unassisted) 19:27 ENG Just steps over centre ice and snaps a long one into empty net

Penalties ― Blues’ bench (served by Tarasenko) 4:52, Marleau SJ 5:33

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 10 8 9 27 BLUES 9 5 7 21

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; ST. LOUIS, Jake Allen

Power play: SJ ― 2 for 3 17 for 60 in SCP, STL ― 1 for 3 15 for 56 in SCP Referees: Eric Furlatt, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Derek Amell, Pierre Racicot

19 372 at Scottrade Center SJ changes ― None STL changes ― None

C Joe Pavelski SJ, C Robby Fabbri STL, C Joe Thornton SJ game’s three stars

Earlier today, former Toronto Maple Leafs’ coach John Brophy, 83, passes away F Joe Pavelski SJ has a six-game point streak (4g, 5a)

"I think we're reminding ourselves we're not there yet," said Sharks’ coach Peter DeBoer, who took the New Jersey Devils to the 2012 final. "There's a lot of heavy lifting left. We know the team on the

other side there. They're not going away. We've been close before and let teams off the mat. It's a great opportunity for us, but there's a lot of work left to do before we can start thinking about that."

F Troy Brouwer STL has 8 goals in 19 SCP games this season…after 7g in his previous 78 SCP games

Wednesday, May 25 1800 h pt on HNIC, NBCSN


FIRST PERIOD 1. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 13 (Joe Thornton, Tomas Hertl) 3:57

Thornton is stopped on breakaway, but Pavelski picks up puck behind net and wraps it in

Penalties ― None

SECOND PERIOD 2. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 5 (Brent Burns, Chris Tierney) 5:02

Floating wrist shot from point is tipped by Ward in front past Elliott’s stick side

Penalties ― Brouwer StL 0:36, Upshall StL (double minor) 6:08

THIRD PERIOD 3. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 6 (Logan Couture, Patrick Marleau) 3:01 GWG

Cutting to net, re-directs Couture’s hard pass past Elliott’s glove side 4. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 5 (Logan Couture, Patrick Marleau) 8:11

Lovely three-way passing play entering zone leaves “Donkey” open in slot to bury it stick side 5. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 8 (Jori Lehtera, Colton Parayko) 11:39

Takes pass in slot and snaps a high one over a flailing and flopping Martin Jones 6. ST. LOUIS, Vladimir Tarasenko 9 (Paul Stastny, Alex Pietrangelo) 16:25

With extra attacker, fires one from below goal line that Jones lets in short side 7. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 8 (Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 19:40 ENG

Snaps one from inside blueline to send Sharks to their first Stanley Cup Championship Series

Penalties ― Shattenkirk StL Wingels SJ 15:35


SHARKS 9 10 8 27 ST. LOUIS, Brian Elliott, Jake Allen (16:25 of third period), Elliott (17:55 of third period); SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: STL ― 0 for 1 15 for 57 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 3 17 for 63 in SCP

Referees: Brad Watson, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Brian Murphy, Brad Kovachik

17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose STL changes ― 56 F Paajarvi out, 10 F Upshall in SJ changes ― None

RW Joel Ward SJ, LW Patrick Marleau SJ, C Logan Couture SJ game’s three stars F Joe Pavelski SJ led all player with nine points in series (four goals)

"It's great," Sharks’ defenceman Brent Burns said. "You dream of getting the chance to play for this.

It's a great feeling. We know we've got one more step to take to really let loose. It's incredible." Patrick Marleau (1,411) and Joe Thornton (1,347) have combined to play 2,478 NHL regular-season

games, the most by two teammates each making the Cup Final for the first time, according to the Elias Sports Bureau

With Patrick Marleau SJ reaching SCF, Dale Hunter becomes NHL player with most SCP games under his belt without reaching Stanley Cup Final

Peter DeBoer reached Stanley Cup Final with 2012 New Jersey Devils, who lost to Los Angeles Kings "I see the devastation in our locker room right now," Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock said. "Guys aren't

even able to speak. ... We've got some guys that are pretty shook up right now...I'm not going to talk to

them for a day or two. They need their space with each other. They've bonded here better than any

team I've coached in the last 10 years. They need their time together. They don't need me interrupting anything right now. We'll talk at the appropriate time, but right now, they need to be with each other."

Sharks reach their first Stanley Cup Championship Series since their birth in 1991-92 Sharks have won 13 SCP series since 2003-04; only the Chicago Blackhawks, with 16, have won

more… Penguins can win their 14th on Thursday



2016 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 2E PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 v. 6W SAN JOSE SHARKS 98

GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN v. GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER


Monday, May 30 2000 h et on HNIC, NBC Hughson, Simpson, Healy, Oake

SAN JOSE 2 @ PITTSBURGH 3

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Bryan Rust 6 (Justin Schultz, Chris Kunitz) 12:46 Schultz’ shot from slot blocked by Vlasic, but lands right at Rust’s feet, and he scores into open stick side

2. PITTSBURGH, Conor Sheary 3 (Sidney Crosby, Olli Maatta) 13:48 Sheary takes Crosby’s pass in circle, waits for Jones to become screened, then fires it home stick side

Penalties ― Zubrus S 8:54

SECOND PERIOD

3. SAN JOSE, Tomas Hertl 6 (Joonas Donskoi, Brent Burns) 3:02 PPG Takes pass down low to Murray’s left, spins, and swipes one through the netminder’s legs

4. SAN JOSE, Patrick Marleau 5 (Brent Burns, Logan Couture) 18:12 Picks puck off Murray’s pad after save and quickly wraps it around to stick side and in

Penalties ― Cole P 1:14, Pavelski S Thornton S Malkin P 18:52

THIRD PERIOD 5. PITTSBURGH, Nick Bonino (Kris Letang, Carl Hagelin) 17:27 GWG

Letang finds Bonino all alone in front…takes pass, watches Jones hit the deck…then fires it over his right shoulder

Penalties ― Marleau S 4:47, Lovejoy P 17:51


PENGUINS 15 8 18 41 SAN JOSE, Martin Jones (2.12 GAA, .919 sv pct entering series); PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray (2.21, .924)

Power play: SJ ― 1 for 2 18 for 65 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 3 15 for 67 in SCP

Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Derek Amell, Jonny Murray 18 596 at CONSOL Energy Center

SJ dressed ― 4 D Dillon, 7 D Martin, 8 F Pavelski, 9 F Zubrus, 12 F Marleau, 16 F Spaling, 19 F Thornton,

27 F Donskoi, 39 F Couture, 42 F Ward, 44 D Vlasic, 46 D Polak, 48 F Hertl, 50 F Tierney, 57 F Wingels, 61 D Braun, 68 F Karlsson, 88 D Burns, 31 G Jones, 34 G Reimer

PIT dressed ― 3 D Maatta, 4 D Schultz, 7 F Cullen, 8 D Dumoulin, 12 D Lovejoy, 13 F Bonino, 14 F Kunitz,

16 F Fehr, 17 F Rust, 28 D Cole, 34 F Kuhnhackl, 43 F Sheary, 58 D Letang, 62 F Hagelin, 71 F Malkin, 72 F Hornqvist, 81 F Kessel, 87 F Crosby, 29 G Fleury, 30 G Murray

C Nick Bonino PIT, LW Conor Sheary PIT, C Patrick Marleau SJ game’s three stars

At 4:47 of third period, F Bryan Rust PIT took Patrick Marleau’s right shoulder to the head…Rust took one more shift, and then left the game for good

This was the seventh straight SCF G1 decided by one goal Penguins become first Eastern Conf. team to win SCF G1 since Hurricanes in 2006

"They came out flying," San Jose centre Logan Couture said. "It looked like we were stuck in mud.

Shouldn't happen. Obviously this is the first time for a lot of guys, so maybe that was it. This time of the year, the games are too big to have a start like that."

Tonight was first time ever that two different rookies scored the first two goals in a SCF game

Former NHLers Tom Lysiak, 63, and Rick MacLeish, 66, both passed away today

Saturday, June 4 1723 h pt on HNIC

PITTSBURGH 2 @ SAN JOSE 3 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Ben Lovejoy 2 (unassisted) 5:29

Lovejoy’s floater from point goes off Polak’s left thigh and past Jones stick side 2. SAN JOSE, Justin Braun 2 (Joe Thornton, Marc-Edouard Vlasic) 9:34

Braun’s wrist shot from point has eyes and Murray never saw it go high glove side

Penalties ― Ward S 2:58

SECOND PERIOD 3. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 8 (Ben Lovejoy, Olli Maatta) 19:07

Floating point shot hits Hornqvist’s stick and goes past Jones’ stick side

Penalties ― Hagelin P 10:39

THIRD PERIOD 4. SAN JOSE, Joel Ward 7 (Joonas Donskoi, Joe Thornton) 8:48

Just as PP ends, steps between circles and blasts a long one between Murray’s glove and left pad

Penalties ― Bonino P (double minor) 4:48

FIRST OVERTIME PERIOD 5. SAN JOSE, Joonas Donskoi 6 (Chris Tierney) 12:18 GWG

Donskoi swoops around net and whips one high that grazes Murray’s mask and goes in over his right shoulder

Shots on goal by PENGUINS 14 6 13 9 42

SHARKS 6 9 7 4 26 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: PIT ― 0 for 1 15 for 70 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 3 18 for 69 in SCP

Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Derek Amell, Jonny Murray 17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose

PIT changes ― None

SJ changes ― 48 F Hertl (ankle) out. 9 F Zubrus in

RW Joonas Donskoi SJ, RW Joel Ward SJ, G Martin Jones SJ game’s three stars Sharks didn’t get their first shot of the game until 8:13 of the first period

No Stanley Cup Final has ended in a sweep since 1998 Donskoi’s overtime goal prevented Sharks from becoming first-ever team to lose five overtime

games in one Stanley Cup Playoffs Prior to game, moment of silence was held for Muhammad Ali, who died yesterday at 74

Joel Ward SJ has seven goals this postseason, four in the third period or overtime, with three either tying the game or putting the Sharks ahead

Penguins blocked 38 shots in game, which has become a theme of this series

Wednesday, June 1 2000 h et on HNIC, NBCSN

SAN JOSE 1 @ PITTSBURGH 2 OVERTIME

FIRST PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Martin S 12:09

SECOND PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Phil Kessel 10 (Nick Bonino, Carl Hagelin) 8:20

Hagelin muscles Dillon off the puck, slips it to Bonino, who finds Kessel in front and he scores in open glove side

Penalties ― Martin S 8:50, Cole P 18:49

THIRD PERIOD 2. SAN JOSE, Justin Braun 1 (Logan Couture, Joel Ward) 15:55

Slapshot from just outside top of circle past about six bodies and past a screened Murray’s high glove side

Penalties ― None


3. PITTSBURGH, Conor Sheary 4 (Kris Letang, Sidney Crosby) 2:35 GWG Right off draw, Sheary gets puck from Letang at top of circle and snaps one high glove side past Jones

Penalties ― None

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 6 5 9 2 22 PENGUINS 11 12 6 1 30

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray

Power play: SJ ― 0 for 1 18 for 66 in SCP, PIT ― 0 for 2 15 for 69 in SCP Referees: Wes McCauley, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brian Murphy, Pierre Racicot


SJ changes ― 9 F Zubrus out, 83 F Nieto in PIT changes ― None

LW Conor Sheary PIT, C Phil Kessel PIT, D Justin Braun SJ game’s three stars

Following this game D Justin Braun SJ leaves Sharks for a day to attend his father-in-law Tom Lysiak’s funeral in Atlanta

F Conor Sheary PIT became fifth rookie to score an overtime goal in SCF…Brian Skrudland MTL 1986, Jacques Lemaire MTL 1968, Jimmy Peters MTL 1946, Alf Pike NYR 1940

Sharks have now lost all four overtime games they have played in this postseason Home teams have won the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final 36 times…those teams went on

to win the series 33 times, but two of the three series losses have been in the past seven years "What separates NHL players from the rest of the world is their ability to continue to bring a consistency

of play that comes to be the expectation," Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said. "I think Conor Sheary has learned that. He's not the only one. The young players, I think they all go through that evolution.

I think for those reasons, we're seeing him produce the way he's playing right now."

Monday, June 6 1721 h pt on HNIC

PITTSBURGH 3 @ SAN JOSE 1

FIRST PERIOD 1. PITTSBURGH, Ian Cole 1 (Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin) 7:36

Jones sends out fattest rebound ever with his blocker, right onto Cole’s stick and he scores stick side

Penalties ― Vlasic S 11:37, Lovejoy P 15:15

SECOND PERIOD 2. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 5 (Phil Kessel, Kris Letang) 2:37 PPG GWG

On PP, Kessel fires a pass right through crease onto Malkin’s stick and he simply re-directs it home glove side

Penalties ― Karlsson S 2:28, Rust P 17:33

THIRD PERIOD 3. SAN JOSE, Melker Karlsson 4 (Chris Tierney, Brenden Dillon) 8:07

Takes pass in slot and, falling, snaps one under Murray’s glove and into net 4. PITTSBURGH, Eric Fehr 3 (Carl Hagelin, Olli Maattta) 17:58

Sent in alone, snaps one between blocker and body of frozen Jones

Penalties ― None


SHARKS 8 4 12 24 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: PIT ― 1 for 2 16 for 72 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 2 18 for 71 in SCP Referees: Wes McCauley, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brian Murphy, Pierre Racicot


PIT changes ― None SJ changes ― None

G Matt Murray PIT, C Phil Kessel PIT, C Evgeni Malkin PIT game’s three stars

Heavy metal band Metallica plays national anthem Penguins now have chance to win their first Stanley Cup ever on home ice (’91, ’92, ’09 on road)

"You've just got to understand that it's going to take our best and we're going to see their absolute best," Penguins captain Sidney Crosby said. "In saying that, you can't get caught looking ahead of

things. We've had a great approach all playoff long -- all season long -- in making sure we're staying in the moment here. That will be important here, now more than ever."

Since the Cup Final went to a best-of-7 format in 1939, teams that take a 3-1 lead have won the Cup 31 of 32 times (96.9 percent). The Toronto Maple Leafs, who trailed the Detroit Red Wings 3-0

in 1942, are the exception. Penguins will be trying to win Stanley Cup for fourth time; each of their previous wins (1991,

Minnesota North Stars; 1992, Chicago Blackhawks; 2009, Detroit Red Wings), were on the road. If they are successful Thursday, it would be the first major sports championship won at home by a

Pittsburgh-based team since Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in Game 7 of 1960 World Series… although American Basketball Association’s Pittsburgh Pipers won 1968 ABA championship at

Pittsburgh’s Civic Arena.



2016 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 2E PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 104 v. 6W SAN JOSE SHARKS 98

GM JIM RUTHERFORD, HC MIKE SULLIVAN v. GM DOUG WILSON, HC PETER DeBOER


Thursday, June 9 2020 h et on HNIC, NBC

SAN JOSE 4 @ PITTSBURGH 2

FIRST PERIOD

1. SAN JOSE, Brent Burns 7 (Melker Karlsson, Logan Couture) 1:04 Swoops behind net, scoops up the puck, comes out front and whips it high short side past Murray’s blocker

2. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 9 (Justin Braun) 2:53 Long wrist shot by Braun is double-tipped, the last by Couture at Murray’s glove side

3. PITTSBURGH, Evgeni Malkin 6 (Phil Kessel, Kris Letang) 4:44 PPG On PP, Malkin tries to centre puck but it goes off Braun’s left skate and into net past flopping Jones

4. PITTSBURGH, Carl Hagelin 6 (Nick Bonino) 5:06 Dillon makes pathetic clearing attempt and Bonino’s shot at net brushes Hagelin’s jersey as he’s screening Jones

5. SAN JOSE, Melker Karlsson 5 (Logan Couture, Brenden Dillon) 14:47 GWG Sharks work hard to earn puck in offensive zone…Couture finds Karlsson in slot and he fires quickly glove side

Penalties ― Zubrus S 4:21, Burns S 8:18

SECOND PERIOD

NO SCORING

Penalties ― Penguins bench (served by Kessel) 5:58, Karlsson S 10:30

THIRD PERIOD

6. SAN JOSE, Joe Pavelski 14 (Joe Thornton) 18:40 ENG

With net empty, takes pass from Thornton in Penguins’ zone and fires it home

Penalties ― Hagelin P 14:04, Vlasic S Crosby P 19:56

Shots on goal by

SHARKS 7 8 7 22 PENGUINS 15 17 14 46

SAN JOSE, Martin Jones; PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray

Power play: SJ ― 0 for 2 18 for 73 in SCP, PIT ― 1 for 3 17 for 75 in SCP Referees: Dan O’Halloran, Dan O’Rourke Linesmen: Derek Amell, Jonny Murray


SJ changes ― None PIT changes ― None

C Logan Couture SJ, G Martin Jones SJ, C Evgeni Malkin PIT game’s three stars

On the morning following this game, Gordie Howe passed away at age 88 Former Pittsburgh Pirates’ star, Bill Mazeroski, was at game…he hit home run for 1960 Bucs that

won last major championship by a Pittsburgh team won at home "We found a way to get on the board early and that changes the game," San Jose defenceman

Paul Martin said. "It especially changes our team and the way that we play. That was big for us to get on the board early. We haven't been able to do that all series and it gave us a little momentum

and let them know we were right there." Sharks became 15th team, out of 32, to force Game 6 when trailing a Stanley Cup Final 3-1 (since

the best-of-7 format started in 1939). Six of those teams forced Game 7, with one winning the championship (1942 Toronto Maple Leafs against the Detroit Red Wings), according to Elias

Sports Bureau. The four goals in 5:06 set a record for fastest four goals to begin a game in Stanley Cup Final,

quicker than 6:51 when Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks each scored twice to start Game 4 in 1992.

"You get a two-goal lead [and] it's gone in a matter of a minute, minute and a half," Logan Couture SJ said. "But be calm, get back out there, get another good shift. We were able to

score again. Melker gave us the lead again. Jonesy did the rest."

Sunday, June 12 1721 h pt on HNIC, NBC

PITTSBURGH 3 @ SAN JOSE 1

FIRST PERIOD

1. PITTSBURGH, Brian Dumoulin 2 (Justin Schultz, Chris Kunitz) 8:16 PPG Waist-high point shot beats falling Jones between blocker and body…very weak goal

Penalties ― Zubrus S 7:50

SECOND PERIOD

2. SAN JOSE, Logan Couture 10 (Melker Karlsson, Brent Burns) 6:27 Drags puck into circle, cuts inside and snaps one off Justin Schultz’ leg and through Murray five-hole

3. PITTSBURGH, Kris Letang 3 (Sidney Crosby, Conor Sheary) 7:46 GWG Takes pass from Crosby behind net and fires one off Jones’ right arm and in…another weak one

Penalties ― None

THIRD PERIOD 4. PITTSBURGH, Patric Hornqvist 9 (Sidney Crosby) 18:58 ENG

Takes pass from Crosby as he moves out to centre ice and fires it in empty net

Penalties ― Sheary P 5:26, Burns S 11:05, Fehr P 19:50


SHARKS 4 13 2 19 PITTSBURGH, Matt Murray; SAN JOSE, Martin Jones

Power play: PIT ― 1 for 2 18 for 77 in SCP, SJ ― 0 for 1 18 for 74 in SCP

Referees: Wes McCauley, Kelly Sutherland Linesmen: Brian Murphy, Pierre Racicot 17 562 at SAP Center at San Jose

PIT changes ― None

SJ changes ― None

C Sidney Crosby PIT, D Kris Letang PIT, G Martin Jones SJ game’s three stars Prior to game, a moment of silence was held for 50 people shot and killed last night at an

Orlando, Florida nightclub At about 8:40 of first period, F Melker Karlsson SJ does an extremely awkward splits into boards

behind Penguins’ net…he left favouring back of right leg…but returned about ten minutes later After receiving the Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby handed it to injured defenceman Trevor Daley PIT

Mike Sullivan replaced Mike Johnston as Penguins’ head coach on 12 December 2015 "When you look at the group, how many new players we brought in, it was pretty special what we were

able to do," said Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs. "We had a core that played together for a while, there was

some trust there. When you look at all the guys we added, the young guys, the guys we added through trades, I think it takes a special group to be able to come together that quickly and build that trust

basically along the way." Sharks only led for 49:15 of 374:53 played in this series

"As I've said to them all along, I know our team is going to score goals," Penguins’ coach Mike Sullivan said. "In order to win championships, you've got to keep it out of your net. You have to become a

team that is stingy defensively. Everybody has to buy in to that idea for us to get to where we want

to go. To their credit, they did, down to a man."

G Matt Murray PIT was 6-0 with a 1.63 GAA and .936 sv pct following a loss in these SCP D Kris Letang PIT had an assist on each of Penguins' game-winning goals in this series, making him

fourth player in SCP history to factor in all four of his team's game-winning goals in a Cup Final (Milt Schmidt, Boston Bruins, 1941; Jean Beliveau, Montreal Canadiens, 1965; Wayne Gretzky,

Edmonton Oilers, 1987) "I mean, how can you ask for anything better than this?" said forward Phil Kessel PIT, who led the

Penguins with 10 goals and 22 points. "Winning the Cup is what you dream of and what you play for."


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