If all players perform to their potential, there's little doubt how the series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning will conclude.
With all due respect to the Lightning—a good team that remains just one win away from a second consecutive appearance in the Stanley Cup Final—they don't have nearly the firepower of the Penguins, or the number of game-breakers.
Again, when every player is performing to his potential.
We were reminded of that in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Final on Tuesday night in Tampa. The Penguins were facing elimination after dropping the previous contest at home in disappointing fashion. So Phil Kessel, Kris Letang, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin made sure that didn't happen again, leading the Pens to a 5-2 win and forcing a winner-take-all matchup back in Pittsburgh on Thursday night.
Kessel opened the scoring on a five-on-three power play with one minute, 14 seconds left in the first period.
Letang made it 2-0 in the second period, and late in the frame, Crosby practically willed the puck into the net for an insurance-marker tha ...
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