Penguin’s First Round Series Ends with a Victory
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During last Wednesday night’s thrilling game star players Evgeni Malkin and Jarkko Ruutu were able to achieve second-period goals that led the Penguins to a 3-1 triumph over the Senators and also completed their first-round series for the bid into the next stage of the playoffs.
The 21-year-old Russian, Malkin, scored his second playoff goal at 1:40 into the second half when he flipped his own rebound past Martin Gerber at the same time as doing a one handed backhand on a set of connections done by Crosby. That was an amazing performance and excellent team work.
Ruutu then took the team to their lead at 15:58 with an extraordinary individual play when he was sent in on Gerber by Tyler Kennedy and he then drove the net and ceased with a twist to the left as he twirled around to stay away from Lee. Wow! What a play and remarkable view to the more than 19,000 fans watching.
Team captain, Sidney Crosby, was very keyed up and felt tremendously delighted with this year’s results and feels that the team has learned a lot from last years experience where the Penguins were defeated by the Senators in five games during the playoffs. The Penguins have had bad memories going into the series but that has now been wiped away. Ottawa then continued to their first Stanley Cup finals appearance in history but lost on five occasions to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
Cory Stillman was the only one who was able to score for the Senators in this game and the team has now been knocked out of the first round for the third time in their eleven uninterrupted playoff appearances. The team did have another goal in the second period but it was cancelled out because the player apparently used his right foot to make the puck go in.
Up until the present time the Penguins have lost their last three playoff series ever since their second-round win over Buffalo back in 2001 and hasn’t swept up any teams from the time when they repeatedly swept up Boston and Chicago when they were on their way to their second straight in a row Stanley Cup in 1992, which was sixteen long years ago.
As for the Penguins, they have become the first team to move forward to the second round and will now be against the Boston Bruins, that’s if the Bruins triumph over their 3-1 series shortfall against the Montreal Canadians in order to go forward, or they will have to compete against the winner of the New Jersey and the New York Rangers series. Which ever their next opponent will be they feel incredibly sturdy and have a lot of self-confidence in moving towards another shot at winning this years Stanley Cup.
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