Nine years ago today, Chris Kunitz scored one of the most memorable goals in Pittsburgh Penguins history with a double overtime game-winning goal in Game 7 of the 2017 Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n
The Penguins were looking to repeat as Stanley Cup champions in 2017 after beating the Sharks to win the title in 2016.<\/p>\n
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Pittsburgh bullied their way past the Blue Jackets<\/a> and won a second-round matchup against the Capitals<\/a> for a second straight season, earning a spot in the Eastern Conference Final for the fifth time in ten seasons.<\/p>\n The Ottawa Senators and their defensive way of stifling offense gave Pittsburgh fits throughout the series, holding the Penguins to three goals for the first three games.<\/p>\n The Penguins managed to battle through the slog, winning Game 4 and Game 5 to put the Senators on the brink of elimination.<\/p>\n Ottawa held serve at home, sending things back to Pittsburgh for a series-deciding Game 7.<\/p>\n Chris Kunitz opened the scoring, but Mark Stone<\/a> quickly equalized.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Justin Schultz<\/a> gave the Penguins a third period lead, but again, the Senators wouldn\u2019t go away as Ryan Dzingel<\/a> tied the game 2-2.<\/p>\n Overtime was up next, followed by a second overtime period.<\/p>\n Then came one of Chris Kunitz\u2019s career-defining moments.<\/p>\n The Penguins were headed back to the Stanley Cup Final for the fourth time since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine years ago today, Chris Kunitz scored one of the most memorable goals in Pittsburgh Penguins history with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71223,73751,89149,89150,87326,89151,89153,89154,10154,539,73,75,74,1067,89155,89152,12444],"class_list":["post-201871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-blue-jackets","tag-capitals","tag-chris-kunitz","tag-craig-anderson","tag-eastern-conference-final","tag-game-winning-goal","tag-justin-schultz","tag-mark-stone","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-pa","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ryan-dzingel","tag-stanley-cup-champions","tag-the-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201871","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=201871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}