Post Gazette · Apr 21, 2016
Penguins' penalty-killing excels against Rangers
Penguins' Carl Hagelin has been a key for the Penguins penalty kill in the first three games of the playoff series with the Rangers.NEW YORK — Give Jeff Zatkoff and Matt Murray credit for the way they tended goal in Games 1 and 3 of the Penguins’ first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers.
Patric Hornqvist deserves praise for his work around the New York net — to say nothing of a hat trick in the opener — and Sidney Crosby has produced a couple of timely goals.
Matt Cullen winning 56.9 percent of his faceoffs has helped their cause as have the 15 shot-blocks Kris Letang has recorded.