The Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins are set to do battle in the NHL Eastern Conference finals tonight at Consol Energy Center. The game will be televised on NBC Sports Network at 8:00 p.m. and can be live streamed free here by clicking this link. The Penguins radio broadcast can be heard at 105.9 The X, and the Bruins broadcast can be listened to on 98.5 The Sports Hub.
While the Penguins, led by their stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, have the most feared offense in the East, it is the Bruins who are leading all playoff participants in shots on goal per game (38.2).
The leader of that charge is center Tyler Seguin, who has unleashed a team-high 45 shots this postseason, even though he has only found the back of the net once. Right winger Nathan Horton and center David Krejci have been far more efficient than the hyper-aggressive Seguin. Those two are tied for the team lead in goals during the playoffs with five apiece.
For the Penguins, Tomas Vokoun's performance in net will loom large against the volume of shots he is about to face. Vokoun has performed admirably since being tossed in the fire during the middle of Pittsburgh's first round series with the New York Islanders, when he replaced the ineffective Marc-Andre Fleury.
"You just know that you're playing well, you're trying to do the right things," Vokoun said. "You try not to treat it any differently, even if you know the stakes are just getting bigger."
Penguins general manager Ray Shero said to reporters that he isn't surprised at all at how Vokoun has responded to the challenge of stoning a red-hot Islanders offense and shutting down the Ottawa Senators.
"He has been one of the better goalies in NHL," Shero said. "He just happened to be playing in Nashville and Florida, not in the media spotlight."
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