Penguins take 3-0 series advantage with OT win

With one game left for a first-round sweep, all the Pens need to do now is just finish the job. Kassian also scored the first goal in Edmonton’s 2-0 win in Game 2.

BOSTON (AP) – Bobby Ryan scored on a tip-in on a power play 5:43 into overtime, and the Ottawa Senators recovered after giving up a three-goal lead to beat the Boston Bruins to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round series.

Pittsburgh has won seven of the past nine meetings with the Blue Jackets and has played like a defending Cup victor in this matchup.

The play actually happened during a sequence that concluded with a Penguins game-tying goal.

In NHL history, four of 183 teams down 3-0 in a series have come back to win. So obviously, the chips are stacked completely in the Penguins’ favor.

The hope was that he’d be good to go once the swelling went down, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Bigger stage obviously. We know we’re in a hole.

The Oilers have found a new playoff hero in their first postseason trip since 2006. Are the Jackets forgetting to keep him involved as the game moves on? Guentzel has especially been making a statement this playoffs by scoring a clutch goal in game two and then following that performance up with a hat trick in game three which included the overtime victor. That is, until Sidney Crosby fed him for the game victor.

Columbus held a 14-11 edge in shots on goal in the first, bringing their total through three games in that category to 42-21. “They’re pretty fast. They’ve got a lot of skill”.

The Blue Jackets have had no answers for the Penguins’ top-two lines, but the scoring doesn’t stop there. Pittsburgh scored on the sequence, and it was controversial whether play should have continued with Werenski bleeding all over the ice. Kyle Quincey took a stupid penalty up 3-0 and the Penguins’ subsequent power-play goal almost turned the tide dramatically enough to actually shift the final outcome of the game.

Columbus Blue Jackets’ Sergei Bobrovsky, left, of Russian Federation, makes a save against Pittsburgh Penguins’ Patric Hornqvist, bottom right, of Sweden, as Nick Bonino, top right, and Jack Johnson fight for position during the first perio. But now in the post-season, the Penguins have figured Sergei Bobrovsky out.

Pittsburgh is 7-2 in its last nine games. But in Game 3, Bob was shaky at best. The defenseman returned to the game briefly for the third period but sat out in overtime. Pittsburgh blocked 23 shots before they even got to Fleury.

It was a reversal of Game 1, when the Oilers were outshot 44-19 en route to a 3-2 overtime loss. The Penguins had just cut the deficit to 4-3 a few minutes earlier, but Jenner was on the spot, and the Blue Jackets regained the momentum for good. He played out of his head.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were banged up in mid-March and needed a spark.

So Tortorella may have a legitimate complaint as Werenski clearly was not in any shape to continue playing as blood poured down from his face.

Calvert broke his stick while cross checking him, then as Kuhnhackl was bent over from the first hit, Calvert shoved him off his feet.

The Penguins turned things around in the second period, managing the puck better and forcing the Blue Jackets to chase. Being down 3-0 in the series most likely spells out the end for the Jackets this year.

What this New York win really does, though, is keep alive the thing we’re all expecting – a seven-game series. “Now we’ll figure out how to go about our business and try to manage the series here”.

Columbus is 1-9 in its last 10 games.