Seventeen years ago today, the Penguins blew past the Washington Capitals in a series-deciding game on the road, sending Pittsburgh to the Eastern Conference Final for a second straight season.<\/p>\n
It was 2009. The Penguins and the Capitals were putting on a show for the hockey world with six games of what felt like uncontrolled chaos where no lead was safe.<\/p>\n
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From dueling hat tricks to overtime thrillers, Pittsburgh and Washington were facing off in a Game 7that would help define the legacy of their team \u2014 and the pressure was intense.<\/p>\n
Three of the six games in the series had gone to overtime and this night in D.C., it was win or go home.<\/p>\n
Alex Ovechkin had scored seven goals in six games, so who better else to have an early breakaway with a chance to ignite the home crowd?<\/p>\n
Marc-Andre Fleury thought otherwise.<\/p>\n
Fleury\u2019s save may have been a wakeup call for the Penguins, who responded with two hectic periods of hockey as they coasted to victory.<\/p>\n
Two goals eight seconds apart from Sidney Crosby<\/a> and Craig Adams<\/a> broke the scoreless tie in the first period.<\/p>\n Three goals in quick succession from Bill Guerin, Kris Letang<\/a>, and Jordan Staal<\/a> made things 5-0 and put the game on cruise control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventeen years ago today, the Penguins blew past the Washington Capitals in a series-deciding game on the road,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85137,17941,85138,66259,15643,36255,73,75,74,1067,8664,12444,1887,17922],"class_list":["post-191112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2009-stanley-cup-playoffs","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-craig-adams","tag-jordan-staal","tag-kris-letang","tag-marc-andre-fleury","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-the-penguins","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}