It seemed like forever since the Penguins had won a Game 7 on home ice.
Actually, it was just 21 years.
It doesn’t matter now, though, because they snapped that streak with a 2-1 victory against Tampa Bay in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final tonight at Consol Energy Center.
The victory puts the Penguins into the Stanley Cup final for the fifth time in team history, and the first since they won the franchise’s third Cup in 2009.
Game 1 against San Jose, the Western Conference champion, will be Monday at 8:10 p.