Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers faceoff for Game 3 of their Round 2 best-of-seven series live from Madison Square Garden in New York City as part of the 2014 Stanley Cup Playoffs. The game can be live streamed for free here. Pittsburgh fans can hear all of the action on 105.9 WXDX while New York fans can do the same on 98.7 WEPN.
As the series shifts to New York City for the first time, Pittsburgh looks for its second consecutive win after picking up a Game 2 win Sunday night while New York hopes that home ice will help it bounce back from a Game 2 letdown that followed Game 1 overtime win.
The Rangers took Game 1 with a 3-2 overtime win before being shutout by the Penguins in Game 2 as Pittsburgh marched on to a 3-0 Game 2 victory.
This will be the third game of this series in four nights, and Marc-Andre Fleury will look to stand strong between the pipes after turning aside 22 shots in Game 2 to earn his seventh-career playoff shutout.
"It's the same for both teams. [We'll] just enjoy tonight," Fleury said after Game 2 per NHL.com. "We got the win, but we'll be back at it [Monday] morning. [Monday] night will be a big game."
Fleury is 5-3 with a 2.49 goals-against average and a .914 save percentage this postseason. His counterpart Henrik Lundqvist may have been the better player in his team's Game 2 loss as he turned aside chance after chance and finished with 32 saves to keep the Rangers in it. This postseason, Lundqvist is 5-4 with a 2.07 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
The Rangers were left scratching their heads after they were failed on three power play opportunities in the first nine minutes of Game 2 and ended up going 0-for-4 overall on the man advantage. The Blueshirts are 0-for-29 on the power play stemming back to an Easter Sunday Game 2 in Round 1 against the Philadelphia Flyers.
"The power play had some looks. It could've given us momentum," head coach Alain Vigneault told NHL.com. "We didn't finish, and the power play ultimately is my responsibility. I have to find the right trigger points here to make it work, and I'll spend the night trying to figure it out."
The Rangers will play their sixth game in nine nights tonight but have downplayed the fatigue factor being a problem.
Brad Richards leads New York in points (seven) this postseason and is tied for the team lead in goals (three) while adding four assists. Benoit Pouliot has tied Richards for the team lead with three tallies while he's added three helpers to tie him with Martin St. Louis (two goals, four assists) for second on the team with six points.
Rick Nash (four assists) is tied for fourth on the team in points with four, but has found the back of the net just once in 20 career playoff games with New York
Evgeni Malkin has paced Pittsburgh in the playoffs with 10 points off of four goals and six assists while Matt Niskanen (two markers, six helpers) and Paul Martin (eight assists) are tied for second on the team with eight points. Sidney Crosby looked at his best in Game 2, but has remained goal-less in 13 straight playoff games dating back to last year, though he has notched six assists.
Each team looks to take control of the series when the Penguins and Rangers hit the ice at Madison Square Garden tonight in New York City for Game 3 of their Round 2 best-of-seven series as part of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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