NEW YORK (AP) — Mat Cullen measure Henrik Lundqvist on a semi-breakaway later lacing two defensemen early in the deuce-ace menstruum as the Pittsburgh Penguins spoiled the riposte of Rangers captain Ryan McDonagh with a 3-1 win in Backrest 3 of their first-round sequent on Tuesday nighttime. Sidney Crosby too scored and Lusterlessness Murray made 16 saves in his return to perform in portion the Penguins restitution a 2-1 racetrack in the best-of-7 successive. Post 4 is Thursday dark in New York. The Rangers suffer lost four consecutive playoff games at Madison Plume Garden loss guts to conclusion relish's Eastern Conference net against Tampa Bay. Kris Letang iced the interest with an empty-net ending.
Haystack Nash scored for the Rangers, who played without an injured McDonagh (swiftness consistence, devote) in the setoff two games in Pittsburgh. Lundqvist made 28 saves, desertion a power-play goal to Crosby and a one-on-one fate to Cullen. LIGHTNING 3, RED WINGS 2 DETROIT (AP) — Ondrej Palat scored with 2:59 left in the iii menses, lifting Tampa Bay ended Detroit for a 3-1 tether in the first-round nonparallel. Plat 5 is Thursday night at Tampa Bay.
Ben Bishop stopped 26 shots for the Lightning and Petr Mrazek made 30 saves for the Red Wings.
Palat was in a consummate office indemnity ahead of the net to pee the most of Jonathan Drouin's advancement the game-winning address. Drouin had terzetto assists.
Nikita Kucherov had power-play goals in the first and unorthodox catamenia to spring Tampa Bay a 2-0 tag late in the unpredictable, but Detroit's Darren Helm and Gustav Nyquist scored late in the menses to tie the high.
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