Bryan Rust (Notre Dame) and Brian Dumoulin (Boston College)
assisted on Sidney Crosby’s game-winning goal 40 seconds into overtime Tuesday
night as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning,
3-2, in Game Two of their Eastern Conference semifinal series of the Stanley
Cup Playoffs.
Phil Kessel (Minnesota) scored Pittsburgh’s second goal,
assisted by Nick Bonino (Boston University) and Carl Hagelin (Michigan), to
give the Penguins a 2-0 lead at the time. J.T. Brown (Minnesota-Duluth) and Matt
Carle (Denver) set up Tampa Bay’s
second goal in the last minute of the first period, by Jonathan Drouin, that
tied the contest. Pittsburgh outshot Tampa Bay,
41-21, overall on the night at Consol
Energy Center,
while both teams were blanked in a combined total of three power-play attempts, two by the Pens.
The series is now tied at one win apiece, with Game Three to
be played Wednesday night in Tampa (7 p.m. ET, NBCSN). It is not yet known if
Lightning No. 1 netminder Ben Bishop (Maine) will return from a lower-body
injury suffered in Game One on Friday, a 3-1 Tampa Bay victory.
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