Penguins Smash Senators; Senators Put on Brink
Sunday afternoons in the spring are meant for baseball and usually not the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but don't tell the Pittsburgh Penguins that. They dominated the Ottawa Senators in game 5 from start to finish and won 7 to 0.
Olli Maatta, Sidney Crosby (power play), Bryan Rust, and Scott Wilson scored goals for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the first. In game 3, the Ottawa Senators scored four goals in the first. Isn't it ironic?
Craig Anderson was pulled after the third goal in favor of Mike Condon, but Anderson came back in afterwards momentarily. For the start of the second-period, Condon played. Anderson stopped 10 shots and Condon stopped 19 shots.
In the second period, Matt Cullen scored the goal. In the third period, Phil Kessel and Trevor Daley scored power-play goals for the Penguins. Want to know a strange stat but true? Pittsburgh scored four goals in the first, one in the second, and two in the third. With those numbers together, it happens to be the Pittsburgh area code 412.
Tommy Wingels elbowed Scott Wilson in the head near the end of the game and he will most likely get a hearing from the league. Wingels might be even be suspended for game 6. Erik Karlsson left the game with an injury and he did not return.
Matt Murray was calm once again for the Pittsburgh Penguins in net. He stopped 25 shots and this is his second career playoff shutout.
Pittsburgh leads this series 3-2 and they have a chance to go back to the Stanley Cup Final for the second consecutive year on Tuesday Night in game 6 at Ottawa.
