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Game 1 goals a long time coming for Conor Sheary, Jake Guentzel

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Conor Sheary and Jake Guentzel haven’t discussed their respective goal-scoring droughts over the past few weeks.

And now there’s nothing left to talk about.

Sheary and Guentzel both scored in the Penguins’ 5-3 win against Nashville in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final Monday night. The goals ended the longest dry spells of both players’ careers: eight games without a goal for Guentzel and 17 for Sheary.

“I don’t think I was aware of that, but it definitely felt like a long time,” Sheary said.

Nearly two months, to be exact. Sheary last scored in the final week of the regular season, April 6 in New Jersey.