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Penguins Eliminate Rangers In OT

The Associated Press

Published: May 5, 2008

PITTSBURGH - Marian Hossa scored his second goal of the game 7:10 into overtime and the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied after giving up a two-goal lead to beat the New York Rangers 3-2 on Sunday and advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in seven years.
Sidney Crosby began a rush into the Penguins' end with a pass to Pascal Dupuis, who attempted to give it back to Crosby. The puck trickled away but ended up on Hossa's stick, and he beat Henrik Lundqvist from the slot for his fifth of the playoffs to end New York's season. The Penguins won the series 4-1.

The Penguins will meet the cross-state Philadelphia Flyers in the first all-Pennsylvania conference final. The teams haven't met in the postseason since the Flyers' six-game victory in a 2000 second-round series best remembered for Philadelphia's five-overtime win in Game 4, which occurred May 4, 2000.

N.Y. Rangers	0	0	2	0	-	2
Pittsburgh	0	2	0	1	-	3

First Period-None. Penalties-Jagr, NYR (hooking), 6:37; Ruutu, Pit (holding), 12:57; Malkin, Pit (interference), 17:23.

Second Period-1, Pittsburgh, Hossa 4 (Malone, Crosby), 8:45 (pp). 2, Pittsburgh, Malkin 6 (Letang, Whitney), 12:40. Penalties-Jagr, NYR (hooking), 2:16; Laraque, Pit (slashing), 5:15; Rozsival, NYR (tripping), 7:50; Rozsival, NYR (hooking), 8:55; J.Staal, Pit (holding), 13:21; Rozsival, NYR (hooking), 17:02.

Third Period-3, N.Y. Rangers, Korpikoski 1 (Rozsival, Drury), 2:03. 4, N.Y. Rangers, Dawes 2 (Gomez, Callahan), 3:25. Penalties-Drury, NYR, double minor (high-sticking), 18:42.

Overtime-5, Pittsburgh, Hossa 5 (Crosby, Dupuis), 7:10. Penalties-None.

Shots on Goal-N.Y. Rangers 7-4-11-0-22. Pittsburgh 10-17-7-6-40. Power-play opportunities-N.Y. Rangers 0 of 4; Pittsburgh 1 of 7. Goalies-N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 5-5 (40 shots-37 saves). Pittsburgh, Fleury 8-1 (22-20). A-17,132 (16,940). T-2:44.

RANGERS: Forward Sean Avery was released from the hospital, five days after suffering a season-ending spleen injury in a playoff game. Avery was in intensive care at St. Vincent's Medical Center since he was admitted Tuesday night.

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