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NEW YORK (AP) — Evgeni Malkin scored on a deflection 5:58 into the third overtime, giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday night.

With seconds remaining on the first penalty, Rust tied it 3-all, tipping a shot by Malkin with 1:30 to go in the period. Fox gave New York a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 9:19 as he got a pass from Zibanead above the left circle, skated to his right and fired a shot through traffic into the top left corner for his first career playoff goal. ... Kreider got his 24th postseason goal, breaking a tie with Steve Vickers for the sixth place in franchise history. Guentzel tied it with 8:13 remaining as he got another pass from Crosby and beat Shesterkin from the right side. The Rangers had a go-ahead goal disallowed when Filip Chytil appeared to score with 3:10 left. Guentzel had the best chance of the period, hitting a crossbar behind Shesterkin with 2:42 remaining. “From the second period on, we played extremely well.” It drew chants of “I-gor! I-gor!” from the Madison Square Garden crowd. “I saw him go to the bench and I wasn't sure why they blew the whistle,” Domingue said of DeSmith, who left with what the Penguins said was a lower-body injury. Shesterkin had a nice stick save on Rust 7:38 into the second overtime. Shesterkin finished with 79 saves, second to the NHL record of 85 saves by Columbus' Joonas Korpisalo in the 2020 playoffs. “He’s our best player and showed it again tonight," the Rangers' Ryan Strome said of Shesterkin. "I thought we played a good game — a lot of guys battled really hard.

Pittsburgh Penguins starting goalie Casey DeSmith abruptly exited midway through the second OT and was replaced by Louis Domingue...

He was unavailable in the playoffs last season due to a late-season lower-body injury that required surgery. The 30-year-old goalie struggled through the first half of the regular season and appeared to be in danger of losing his backup job to Domingue. DeSmith acquitted himself well in his first playoff start.

The Pittsburgh Penguins got a miserable start to Game 1 of the playoffs, but came away with a 4-3 victory in triple overtime.

Letang got the second assist. Guentzel nearly ended the game — and completed a hat trick — at 17:19 of overtime, when he put a shot off the crossbar behind Shesterkin. They needed 41 of those before Rust, at the left side of the crease, rapped in a feed from Evgeni Malkin to tie it, 3-3. They found the perfect salve for all the bumps and bruises they picked up over the course of the evening, however, rallying from a pair of deficits for a 4-3 triple-overtime victory. New York not only was faster than the Penguins during the early stages of play, but was far more aggressive. NEW YORK — The Pittsburgh Penguins absorbed a lot of punishment from the New York Rangers during Game 1 of their opening-round playoff series Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.

Pittsburgh Penguins winger Rickard Rakell was crumpled and nearly knocked out. Jake Guentzel was also injured in the first period on Tuesday.

They outshot the Penguins 15-10 and outhit them 19-10. The Pittsburgh Penguins had a rough first period against the New York Rangers in Game 1 of their Round One series. Not only did New York significantly outshoot them and lead 1-0, but Penguins wingers Rickard Rakell and Jake Guentzel were injured on the same sequence late in the first period.

The Penguins win in triple OT with an Evgeni Malkin goal after falling in a 2-0 hole early. Casey DeSmith leaves the game in 2OT but Louis Domingue comes up ...

- A lot of poise and character shown by the Pens in the second to bounceback. - In fact, the whole top line of the Pens is turning into a huge issue for the Rangers. They tried multiple lines and defense pairs to check them. they were doing the Islanders thing to throw a bunch of board-rattling checks and had the Pens on their heels and the energy going up. New York carried most of the first overtime, with Fox especially being noticeable activating from his defensive position and generating a lot of scoring chances from close to the net. Kakko was being defended by Dumoulin, but clearly did drive into the blue paint of his own volition and it did hinder the goalie’s ability to play the position. A pair of long passes by Bryan Rust and Sidney Crosby had NYR chasing the play and made it easy for Jake Guentzel to tap into the net from right in front and get Pittsburgh on the board. Kakko keeps with the play and is able to pass it out for Filip Chytil to tap the puck into the vacated net. With so much speed, it was easy for Kreider to deke backhand and tuck it in past the left-out-to-dry DeSmith as the Rangers re-took the lead at 3-2. Bryan Rust made a great long pass up for Crosby, who froze the defender in the zone as Guentzel snuck behind Lindgren. Crosby’s pass set Guentzel in alone and the Pens sniper finished the deal. For a jumping off point of the playoffs, it only took one game for a roller coaster of highs and lows. Adam Fox worked out to the right and then floated a shot in to the left past Casey DeSmith. Early in the second, DeSmith didn’t help his cause when he caught and held a puck in his glove but dropped it back into play.

Pittsburgh Penguins forward Rickard Rakell was forced to leave Game 1 against the New York Rangers after a hit from Ryan Lindgren.

Rakell was slow to get up but did skate off the ice with the help of teammates. Late in the first period, Rakell was carrying the puck down the wing when Lindgren stood up and hit him at the blue line.

In a game that saw a double-overtime goalie swap and one team recording over 80 shots, the Pittsburgh Penguins managed to win a triple-overtime meeting to ...

The real star of the show, though, was Igor Shesterkin, who set a Rangers-team high of 70 saves after five periods. Domingue played just two games this season with Pittsburgh and has never started a playoff game. Adam Fox opened the scoring at 9:19, but the two teams swapped goals to eventually make it 3-3.

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“I just think he’s another voice of leadership in our dressing room that can offer a certain perspective because of his accomplishments and the successes that he’s had over the course of his career. “He, without a doubt, has the respect of all of the players in our room,” Sullivan said. “He’s been amazing,” winger Jake Guentzel said of Carter’s 13-month tenure with the Penguins. “He’s been through a lot. “This is their team,” Carter said, referring to the Penguins triumvirate of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang. “They have been around for a long time and had a lot of success here, and I try to help out where I can. He always has a couple of wise words in between periods. But that doesn’t mean his stature as a possible future Hall of Famer doesn’t carry weight in the Penguins dressing room.

Fans coming to watch the game outside are encouraged to use public transportation or rideshare services to assist with limited parking available around the arena. "The Penguins big screen is an honored Pittsburgh playoff tradition," said Penguins chief ...

The Penguins and Rangers First-Round series begin tonight with Game 1 at 7:00 PM at Madison Square Garden, followed by Game 2 on Thursday, May 5th. Penguins fans can also visit the newly announced Coors Light Igloo Club on Fifth, which will be open for all Penguins home playoff games. - No Grills - No Glass - No Alcohol We are energized to have PPG Paints Arena filled to capacity and supported by the black and gold Penguins faithful outside."

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With the Penguins options to split Crosby and Malkin apart, the pairing of Miller and Jacob Trouba will be tasked with keeping one of those superstars off the scoreboard. A team looking to win a playoff round for the first time since 2018, and the Penguins’ core players are much the same ones the Blueshirts saw in the previous playoff clashes of 2014, 2015, and 2016. For the first time in five years, the New York Rangers are back in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Coming off the heels of one of their most successful regular seasons in franchise history, Adam Fox, Chris Kreider, and the rest of the Blueshirts will look to continue that success into the postseason.

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In those three games, the Rangers outscored the Penguins 11-3. The Pittsburgh Penguins have a tall task. The Rangers won three of four in the regular season, including three in 10 days from late March to early April. The Penguins flatlined in one loss but couldn’t crack Igor Shesterkin in the others.

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The only team the Pens have seen more in the playoffs are, unsurprisingly, the Washington Capitals (11 times). The Pens are 5-2 vs NYR with wins in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2016. The Rangers emphatically won 5-1 on March 25th and then hung on for a 3-2 win a few days later on March 29th. - This will be the eighth Pittsburgh/New York Ranger playoff series. If you’re not in the local viewing area, the game is simply on ESPN. Pretty easy! Season Series: The Pens went 1-3-0 vs NYR this season. The lone Pittsburgh win, 1-0, came in the first meeting of the season on February 26th.

With the two-way abilities of Sidney Crosby, the Penguins have a potent enough roster to pull off an upset.

The Penguins do project to have the edge at 5-on-5, which should mean that Shesterkin will be the busier of the two netminders over the course of this series. Crosby is coming off another fantastic season and is one of the game’s best two-way centers at this point in his career. Sidney Crosby’s play will go a long way in deciding if Pittsburgh does end up with the better of play at 5-on-5. Shesterkin finished the season with a .935 save percentage and a +34.1 Goals Saved Above Expected (GSAx). No goaltender came close to matching Shesterkin’s form throughout the season and it’s hard to imagine that Casey DeSmith will be able to outduel Shesterkin over seven games. That argument, that the Rangers should be a more considerable favorite, does have merit on the surface. Most folks, especially those who don’t bet the NHL regularly, would have expected the Rangers to be a shorter favorite for the series, likely in the -135 range.

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The New York Rangers will play their first home game in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in nearly five years when they face the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the ...

"I like to believe we're a forward-thinking group and we're not going to hold onto the past." We're confident in him and he's been great, so he just has to go out there and do the same thing." "They've always shown an ability to elevate their games when the stakes are high." Each skated Saturday and were full participants in practice Sunday and Monday. "There's a lot of Stanley Cup rings in that locker room and I believe these guys can draw on those experiences to help us," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said. The Rangers will have Igor Shesterkin in net. … Panarin (upper body) and Copp (lower body) will play after missing the final two games of the regular season. "We tried to play a specific way over these last 82 games and that shouldn't change for us now." He went 3-2-0 with a 2.24 GAA and .940 save percentage. Jarry and Zucker, a forward, are each day to day and will not play. "I know what [the players] are capable of and this is the time of year I think they embrace it and enjoy it the most," Sullivan said. They haven't won a series since the first round in 2018, the last in a streak of nine consecutive playoff series wins.

The first N.H.L. playoff game at Madison Square Garden in five years featured just about everything a hockey game could, except for a win by the home team.

Neither team scored in the third period or in the first two overtimes, and there were no penalties either. Their jerseys and skates soaked with sweat, the players appeared to be weighed down. But just as the Rangers appeared to get comfortable, the Penguins found their footing. In the second period, the Rangers picked up where they left off. Kreider faked to DeSmith and buried scored on a backhand for a short-handed goal. Shesterkin was the eighth goalie in N.H.L. history and first Ranger to make more than 70 saves in a game. The Rangers were that team on Tuesday when they lost a triple overtime slugfest to the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3, in a game that set numerous playoff records. “It was a 4-3 game, but they got the one goal that mattered.” The Rangers and Penguins combined for 151 shots on goal. Shesterkin had a fabulous season but had played in just one postseason game. In retrospect, there were many near misses that could have sent the fans home a lot earlier than 11:48 p.m., when Malkin scored the game-winner. “It’s a playoff game against one of our rivals,” said Penguins right wing Bryan Rust, who had a goal and two assists.

Evgeni Malkin scored on a deflection 5:58 into the third overtime, giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers in Game 1 of their ...

With seconds remaining on the first penalty, Rust tied it 3-all, tipping a shot by Malkin with 1:30 to go in the period. Fox gave New York a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 9:19 as he got a pass from Zibanead above the left circle, skated to his right and fired a shot through traffic into the top left corner for his first career playoff goal. ... Kreider got his 24th postseason goal, breaking a tie with Steve Vickers for the sixth place in franchise history. Guentzel tied it with 8:13 remaining as he got another pass from Crosby and beat Shesterkin from the right side. The Rangers had a go-ahead goal disallowed when Filip Chytil appeared to score with 3:10 left. Guentzel had the best chance of the period, hitting a crossbar behind Shesterkin with 2:42 remaining. “From the second period on, we played extremely well.” “I saw him go to the bench and I wasn't sure why they blew the whistle,” Domingue said of DeSmith, who left with what the Penguins said was a lower-body injury. It drew chants of “I-gor! I-gor!” from the Madison Square Garden crowd. Shesterkin had a nice stick save on Rust 7:38 into the second overtime. Shesterkin finished with 79 saves, second to the NHL record of 85 saves by Columbus' Joonas Korpisalo in the 2020 playoffs. “He’s our best player and showed it again tonight," the Rangers' Ryan Strome said of Shesterkin. "I thought we played a good game — a lot of guys battled really hard.

Pittsburgh Penguins backup goalie Louis Domingue was thrust into the hero role in Game 1. Watch the video and get the full story from New York.

He hoped that he would be with the NHL club in the playoffs. That seems to indicate it was more than a cramp. This season, Domingue made two NHL starts, including a 40-save win over the San Jose Sharks in January. He’s played 142 NHL games but never started in the playoffs. Domingue faced a shot in the first few seconds. And I was just focusing on (that). I was watching and it just comes at you fast,” said the goalie. But I thought we played hard for the time I was in there. Last summer, Domingue was a lost goalie. PHN asked how long it took to get comfortable and was surprised by the answer. Another loss would only embolden the young Rangers and make the Penguins’ job that much tougher. “I honestly thought they were joking with me, and they were saying that I had to go in. Head coach Mike Sullivan said DeSmith was still being evaluated after the game. “I’d be lying if I said that I was engaged all the time.

Evgeni Malkin scored the game-winning goal in triple overtime as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the New York Rangers 4-3 in Game 1.

Dom Luszczyszyn and Shayna Goldman The Penguins take a 1-0 lead in their first-round series. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said after the game DeSmith has a lower body injury. Pittsburgh won despite starting goalie Casey DeSmith pulling himself from Game 1 in double OT with an apparent injury. Jesse Marshall and Shayna Goldman Dom Luszczyszyn and Shayna Goldman

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Casey DeSmith will not be the first unproven goalie to take the ice for the Penguins in the playoffs, in fact, Penguins lore is filed with these kind of stories. For as long as the Penguins are alive in the playoffs, much will be made about this possibly being the last playoff run for Crosby, Malkin, and Letang as teammates. What started out ugly ended beautifully for the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 last night against the New York Rangers. It was all Rangers in the early going, racing out to a 2-0 lead before Jake Guentzel scored a pair to even the score.

Forced into the net in double overtime after an injury to Casey DeSmith, Louis Domingue backstopped the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 triple overtime Game 1 ...

The 30-year-old made 17 saves, holding the Penguins in the game until Evgeni Malkin scored on a deflection 5:58 into the third overtime. “He’s our best player and showed it again tonight," Rangers forward Ryan Strome said of Shesterkin. "I thought we played a good game — a lot of guys battled really hard. He entered in relief of DeSmith, who had an apparent leg injury, midway through the second overtime frame.