The Los Angeles Kings acquired left wing left wing Ryan Smyth from the Colorado Avalanche on Friday night for defensemen Kyle Quincey and Tom Preissing and a fifth-round draft pick next year.
Slide over Super Mario and make room on the Stanley Cup for a new batch of Pittsburgh Penguins. Max Talbot scored two second-period goals, and the Penguins overcame the loss of captain Sidney Crosby to beat the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in Game 7 and win the Cup on Friday night.
Andrew Gordon, Chris Bourque and Alexendre Giroux scored first-period goals and the Hershey Bears won their 10th American Hockey League title with a 4-1 victory over the Manitoba Moose on Friday night.
Sidney Crosby still lives at home, even if it is Mario Lemieux’s. Jordan Staal can’t legally buy a drink in Pittsburgh for a couple more months. Evgeni Malkin still loves eating mom’s home cooking.
Darren Helm and Dan Cleary are far from marquee players for the Detroit Red Wings. The banged-up Red Wings, playing without stars Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk, needed Helm and Cleary to eliminate the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Wednesday night. Helm scored 3:58 into overtime, and Cleary had a goal in the third period in the defending champion Red Wings’ 2-1 victory over Chicago that set up a Stanley Cup finals rematch with Pittsburgh.
Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins are headed back to the Stanley Cup finals. Max Talbot had a goal and an assist to help the Penguins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-1 on Tuesday night and finish off a sweep in the Eastern Conference finals. Pittsburgh lost to Detroit last year in a six-game final series.
The Windsor Spitfires made the Memorial Cup final Friday night when Adam Henrique banged in a rebound 4:31 into overtime, lifting the Ontario Hockey League champions to a 3-2 victory over Drummondville.
Evgeni Malkin put Pittsburgh ahead for good by scoring twice in the third period of his first three-goal playoff performance and the Penguins beat the Carolina Hurricanes 7-4 Thursday night(AP) _ to open a two-game lead in the Eastern Conference finals.
The defending Stanley Cup champions were at home, but the Detroit Red Wings were hardly safe late in the third period. Dan Cleary’s tiebreaking goal with 3 minutes left lifted the Red Wings to a 4-3 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night and into the Western Conference finals for the third straight year and eighth time in 14 seasons.
Scott Walker delivered the final knockout punch to the Boston Bruins. His overtime goal sent the Carolina Hurricanes into the Eastern Conference finals and eliminated the top-seeded team in the process.
For a guy who supposedly shies from the limelight, Sidney Crosby was as good as could be in the first Game 7 of his career. The rest of the Pittsburgh Penguins were pretty close to perfect, too. Crosby scored twice to raise his NHL-leading playoff goal total to 12, his teammates shut down his big rival, Alex Ovechkin, most of the night, and the Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 6-2 on Wednesday to reach the Eastern Conference finals for the second consecutive season.
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