Game Notes<\/p>\n
QUICK HITS<\/p>\n
Sidney Crosby\u00a0has 21 points (5G-16A) in 24 games when facing elimination while\u00a0Evgeni Malkin\u00a0has 16 points (4G-12A) in 24 such games. Pittsburgh owns an all-time record of 19-7 when scoring first in contests the franchise faced elimination.<\/p>\n
The Penguins have one player on their postseason roster looking to make their\u00a0NHL playoff debut defenseman\u00a0Jack St. Ivany.<\/p>\n
The Penguins have forced Game 6 after facing a 3-0 series deficit for the second time in franchise history.\u00a0\u00a0The first instance was in another \u201cBattle of Pennsylvania\u201d series during the 2012 Conference Quarterfinals. (Credit: NHL PR)<\/p>\n
Evgeni Malkin is two victories from becoming the fifth active player to record 100 postseason wins and is looking to join Corey Perry\u00a0(137),\u00a0Ryan McDonagh\u00a0(107),\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0(100) and teammate\u00a0Sidney Crosby\u00a0(100). Lightning defenseman\u00a0Victor Hedman\u00a0enters one away from joining that list as well.<\/p>\n
The Penguins and Flyers played the longest contest in the NHL\u2019s modern era (since 1943-44) and third longest in NHL history when Philadelphia\u2019s Keith Primeau\u00a0potted the winner at 12:01 of the fifth overtime in Game 4 of the 2000 Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes QUICK HITS Sidney Crosby\u00a0has 21 points (5G-16A) in 24 games when facing elimination while\u00a0Evgeni Malkin\u00a0has 16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-639139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}