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 The Penguins hold a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series that will
resume here Thursday night.
Penguins goaltender Matt Murray, who did not play in the first two
games of the series after suffering an injury in the team's
regular-season finale, stopped 16 shots to earn his first postseason
victory.
Center Sidney Crosby scored in the second period and defenseman Kris
Letang added an empty-net goal with 12.1 seconds remaining.
Left winger Rick Nash scored for the Rangers, who received 28 saves
from goaltender Henrik Lundqvist.
 The Rangers appeared to take a 1-0 lead with about eight minutes
remaining in the first period when left winger Chris Kreider slapped
a rebound of his own shot past Murray. But the Penguins challenged
the play and it was ruled that left winger J.T. Miller entered the
zone illegally, which resulted in the goal being waved off.
Nash's shorthanded goal 39 seconds into the second period would not
require video review and gave the Rangers a 1-0 lead. He was sprung
for a breakaway by defenseman Kevin Klein and beat Murray with a
wrist shot to the far side for his first goal of the playoffs.
Crosby scored a power-play goal with 42 seconds remaining in the
period to pull the Penguins into a 1-all tie. Right winger Phil
Kessel fired a hard pass across the front of the net that hit
Crosby's stick and bounced over Lundqvist's outstretched leg for his
second goal of the playoffs.
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Cullen worked himself into a breakaway for his first goal of the
postseason early in the third period that made it 2-1. With the puck
sitting at the Rangers blue line, Cullen chipped it past defensemen
Dan Boyle and Keith Yandle, skated in alone on Lundqvist and used a
quick wrist shot to beat him through the legs.
(Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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