Penguins slide into Stanley Cup Finals
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:32 PM
- Written By: Josh Marks
The Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Carolina Hurricanes tonight by a final score of 4-1 to sweep the series and earn a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Pens will take on the winner of the Detroit Red Wings-Chicago Blackhawks series, which could be decided as early as tomorrow night with the Wings up three games to one. If the Wings win it will set up a rematch of last year's Stanley Cup Finals, which Detroit won in six games.
Pittsburgh won despite being outshot 40-29 at RBC Center by a 'Canes team fighting for its playoff life. Behind solid goaltending by Marc-Andre Fleury the Pens got scoring contributions from Bill Geurin, Maxime Talbot, Ruslan Fedotenko and Craig Adams. Sidney Crosby had two assists and Evgeni Malkin was held without a point. Eric Staal scored Carolina's lone goal.
The first game of the Stanley Cup Finals takes place Saturday, May 30 at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST on NBC.
