PITTSBURGH — Matt Cullen remembers thinking it might come easy in Game 5.
His Carolina Hurricanes were up three games to one on the Edmonton Oilers in the 2006 Stanley Cup Final, with Game 5 and all of its pageantry set to unfold with one more win in front of the home fans. One Fernando Pisani overtime goal for the Oilers later, Cullen and the Hurricanes had to go back on the airplane for the roughly six-hour journey to Edmonton.
The Hurricanes lost Game 6, too, and suddenly were down to one last chance, in a Game 7, to get a Cup that seemed like a done deal a few days before.
One decade later, Cullen, now with the Pittsburgh Penguins, would like to avoid a five-hour flight back to San Jose.
He and the Pens hold a similar 3-1 lead over the Sharks, and they want to finish the deed in Game 5 at Consol Energy Center Thursday night.
"We've earned an opportunity, and that's it," Cullen said after Game 4. "We haven't done anything yet. It's easy to get too far ahead of yourself. It's easy to pat yourself on the back. We've worked hard, and we've earned it, but that's all we've done is give ourselves ...
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