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MAY 25: Tyler Seguin #19 of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Bruins bench celebrate a third period empty net goal against the New York Rangers during Game Five of the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on May 25, 2013 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts.

Ottawa defenseman Marc Methot has been in the NHL for seven seasons. He has played in both conferences and has a good feel for the players on every NHL team.

Whenever it starts, it should be something special. Pittsburgh won all three regular-season games by a single goal, though Evgeni Malkin played in none of them.

Disposing the Ottawa Senators 6-2 Friday night - the Pittsburgh Penguins showed the rest of the NHL world how deadly they really can be when everything is clicking.

Haynes Johnson, a pioneering Washington journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the civil rights movements and migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday.

The Penguins advanced to the Eastern Conference final by eliminating the Ottawa Senators with a 6-2 win tonight at Consol Energy Center in Game 5 of their best-of-seven second-round playoff series.

As the highest-scoring team in the Stanley Cup playoffs thus far, the Pittsburgh Penguins have had no shortage of offensive heroes in the playoffs.

Following his team's 7-3 shellacking at the hands of James Neal and the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night, Daniel Alfredsson made a striking admission that has since dominated the chatter about this series.

Just like in the National Hockey League playoffs, a successful sales team is made up of stars, role players and a strong supporting cast.

Not to look too far ahead, what with Game 4 to be played at Madison Square Garden tonight, and the Senators still hanging by a thread in their own Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Penguins, but the scenario is too delicious not to envision, if not also find intimidation in it.

Brandon Sutter was one of the Penguins' go-to guys for faceoffs in the regular season, handling more draws than any teammate except Sidney Crosby and winning 50.2 percent of them.

The Pittsburgh Penguins , behind James Neal , made sure game 5 on Friday night would be an elimination game for the Ottawa Senators .

OK, so the heavily favored Penguins trailed by a goal after one period Wednesday night in Game 4 against the Ottawa Senators, this after their brutal double-overtime defeat in Game 3. I sat down during the 18-minute intermission to figure out what was so terribly wrong.

The number jumped off the stats sheet. Eight blocked shots for Penguins defenseman Paul Martin in Game 3 Sunday night against the Ottawa Senators.

The Penguins' practice didn't reveal lines, but a couple things became eminently clear: Jussi Jokinen will be back for Game 4 tomorrow.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are on quite a warpath in the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Penguins went 0 for 6 on the power play against Ottawa at Scotiabank Place, failed to convert on a 5-on-3 situation and then allowed a backbreaking short-handed goal with 31 seconds left in regulation that led to overtime and a 2-1 loss in the second overtime.

The Penguins expect exactly that tonight from the Ottawa Senators, back home inside Scotiabank Place as the series shifts north of the Canadian border for Games 3 and 4. The Penguins plan to play with their own brand of desperation.

It was a game where Ottawa needed to rebound in a big way to get this series evened up heading back home.

Evgeni Malkin continued his stellar postseason play with a goal and an assist, as the top-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins handled the Ottawa Senators, 4-1, in Game 1 of this Eastern Conference semifinal from CONSOL Energy Center.