PENGUINS 4 Rangers 3
Not score on the power play. Submit busy destination. Repeat.
Rangers 4-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 2 in the garden was a powerless unacceptable maddening exercise in the case of a man from New York advantage, which is supposed to be the asset of an NHL team in the clutch on Saturday night.
"It is absolutely not good enough," said Rick Nash consider before extending. To all the effort of his team
Although the blue shirts were not stronger dominated and oppressed on their game for 7-1 However, Presidents Trophy winner worked dominated penguins. And so this first round series moves to Pittsburgh for Game 3 Monday evening to every game with a completely different feel bound.
Corey Sipkin / New York Daily News Sidney Crosby (r.) Famous one of his two goals as Rangers fall to the Penguins in Game 2 of the first-round series.
Penguins believe. Rangers lacked any semblance of a killer instinct.
"I wish I had an answer for you," Nash, who scored a goal, the Rangers told before Penguins night. "I just do not know."
Penguins captain Sidney Crosby scored two of the three unanswered goals to Pittsburgh in a second period to overcome a surprisingly one-sided played an early 1-0 lead after Rangers first. Pittsburgh went 2-for-2 in the first two games of power and finished 2-for-4 in total, while the blue shirts went 0-for-5 in the opening 40 minutes.
Pens center Brandon Sutter (meta-game, emergency), the man of the match, and Crosby in the second period the visitors after a failure Ranger power play chances three goals. The hosts were in this transitional period, do not want to be on the ice.
Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury (23 saves) was determined for the second game in a row. Henrik Lundqvist (18 saves) failed to stop the fighting on the other side, a victim of the shortcomings of his teammates, especially on special teams. "My comment on the power play tonight," center Derek Stepan (target to support), said, Pause, "is that we are a group of guys who are frustrated, and I have to go straight and some good mojo and find a way to bring a pair a little and relax. "
"We have a lot of guys who are holding the stick," said the deputy captain. "And there is no need for it, especially now."
At least the rangers finally the end of life. Derick Brassard has cut center in the sixth game Rangers at 3:16 of the third period of a hectic start to reduce the deficit to 3-2.
But the blue shirts were not capitalize on his next opportunity in the power game and fell to December 2 in the series (16.67%). Then Chris Kunitz (goal, two assists) Penguins sealed the game with a power play goal at 9:41 of the third period, capital an offensive game in the middle of the Rangers rookie Kevin Hayes, who had a terrible night.
"In the third, I thought we had a good push," said coach Alain Vigneault. "But we have a penalty of 200 feet from its own network and pay us for it."
Lazy failed freedom Hayes puck in the second period also led the second goal Crosby at 18:46 of the second clock. Before Kunitz scored on the power play, Evgeni Malkin made a clear exception puck over the goal line after a shot Penguins at Rangers defense network Dan Girardi.
Means the defeat of Rangers, as a franchise, the first two playoff games at home from the second round of the Stanley Cup team in 1994. It is not won eight postseason that the higher seeds, divided into seven times and the two parties to of the other.
Vigneault team also lost their home ice in this series, for the moment, because Pittsburgh has three games remaining house in New York for two people. Worst of all, perhaps the confidence that penguins despite their 2-1 Game 1 radiates on Thursday night.
"I think we came to New York, and we knew it was the best team in the league, and we were on our heels a little bit," said Max Lapierre springs. "But after the last two periods of Game 1, now we know that we have to play with this team, and we can beat them."
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