Pittsburgh Penguins center Jake Guentzel celebrates with the Stanley Cup after the Penguins defeated the Nashville Predators 2-0 in Game 6 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals Sunday, June 11, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. The Predators have a legitimate chance to find themselves back in the Stanley Cup Final after their impressive run this year, and could have the opportunity to make this girl the happiest kid on the planet if they somehow pulled it off.
However, if the Penguins did not have the effort and the contributions from their depth players, they never would have won their second straight Stanley Cup.
"It's hard to win the Cups as we've found over the last 10-12 years", Lemieux said.
Hagelin iced the game with 14 seconds left when, with Rinne out of the goal in favour of an extra attacker, he scored into the empty net.
Though Fleury was on the bench for the last four games of the conference final and the entire Stanley Cup final against Nashville, he led Pittsburgh to series wins against Columbus and Washington after Matt Murray got hurt prior to the start of the playoffs. "But a lot of them did, and they all played well and helped Pittsburgh win".
Rutherford did a remarkable job finding players who fit that mold for a long time.
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Bonino revealed after Sunday's Game 6 victory that broke his leg in the first period of Game 2, but played through it, finishing the night with 16:06 of ice time - more than he logged in Game 1. "I'll take a little time here, but yeah, it's pretty likely". The Predators went 0 of 4 with the man advantage, including 32 seconds of a 5-on-3 in the third. He gave coach Mike Sullivan the blunt directive to cut through the noise when he hired him to replace Mike Johnston in December 2015. He is the best player in the world, but that designation goes way beyond hockey talent. Only 18 players have more than his 164 career playoff points and only 19 have mustered more than his 107 assists - all of them in earlier eras when scoring was higher.
The Penguins capped their 50th season in the NHL's centennial year with the third championship for Crosby and a handful of teammates from the 2009 title team, surpassing the two won by the Penguins teams led by current owner Mario Lemieux in the 1990s.
"Our goal is to win every year", Crosby told reporters after the game. This playoff year, they didn't have Kris Letang, their only all-star on defence, in the lineup.
While everyone expected the Penguins to trade Marc-Andre Fleury, whose time with the team appears to be coming to an end, Rutherford chose to hold onto him. Nashville made the playoffs as the 16th-best team in the regular season before knocking off Chicago, St. Louis and Anaheim.
"We were getting chances, just nothing was going in for us", Murray said.
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