For the second straight game the Pittsburgh Penguins spotted the Carolina Hurricanes the first goal, they then weathered the storm and eliminated the Canes 4-1 to win the Eastern Conference Championship. Eric Stahl scored the only goal of the game when he beat Marc-Andre Fleury to the left post of the net and squeezed the puck through for a 1-0 lead. The Pens top stars were quieted the entire night but the role players stepped up and took the load off of Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin with Ruslan Fedotenko evening the game at 1. Off of a lazy turnover Maxime Talbot scored a crazy goal when he had a 2-on-1 and shot the puck which deflected off a Canes defenseman's stick and flew in the air and landed perfectly over the glove of Cam Ward and into the net for what would turn out to be the game winning goal. Talbot's goal marked the 5th time in the series that Pittsburgh scored with less than two minutes left in a period. In the second period Crosby set up veteran Bill Guerin for a score and a 3-1 lead and Crosby picked up his second assist of the night feeding Craig Adams for an empty-net goal and a 4-1 victory. The Crosby assist extended his point streak to six straight games. For the first time all series the Canes out shot Pittsburgh but Fleury stopped 30 of those 31 shots on goal, Ward stopped 20 of 24 in the losing effort. The Penguins are the first team since the 1984 Edmonton Oilers to return to the Stanley Cup Finals after losing the previous year. The Pens are probably going to have a long layoff before they take the ice again with the Finals scheduled to start on June 5, unless the Red Wings can wrap up their series tonight.
PENGUINS SWEEP SERIES 4-0 OVER THE HURRICANES
GO PENGUINS!
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