The Fifth Liners

It took a double overtime goal from Patrice Bergeron to secure the Boston Bruins a 2-1 over the Pittsburgh Penguins at TD Garden to put them firmly in the driving seat in the Eastern Conference Final! Although this saw less goals than the one sided second game, it proved just as entertaining affair. David Krecji 's impressive streak continued with an impressive opening goal, with assistant from Milan Lucic , Krecji calmly waiting behind the goal and then with great skill was able to skate round and have his shot deflect off Niskanen to score his ninth playoff goal for the Bruins this year! Tomas Vokoun held his place in net and made several more vital stops to prevent Boston from extending their advantage. But Pittsburgh battled hard and were deservedly level 12 minutes into the second period , Paul Martin set up Chris Kunitz who buried past Rask to give the fans a tie game! However although the brighter team, the Penguins were unable to find a way past the brilliant Tuukk...

The return of Sidney Crosby was the main subject of last nights clash and many had big expectations- well it appears that the New York Islanders didnt read the same script as everyone else and helped themselves to a 4-3 win at the Consol Energy Center and have now tied the series at 1-1! In the first period things went like a text book for the Pittsburgh Penguins with Evgeni Malkin scoring inside 43 seconds and Crosby netting a comeback goal three minutes later! Matt Moulson put the islanders back in contention after 7 minutes but Crosby scored again 20 seconds later to push the Penguins 3-1 ahead. But from there the Penguins offense seemed to run out of gas as Colin McDonald and Matt Martin both scored in the second period for the Islanders to tie the scores at 3-3. Then it was left to Kyle Okposo to score mid way through the third to give his team the most unlikely win! It is great to see Crosby back in action after his horrific broke...