The Penguins dominated and restricted the Lightning to just 21 shots in the whole game, through the two games they have restricted them to 41 shots which, for a team as deadly going forward as the Lightning, is brilliant. The Penguins out shot the Lightning heavily but as always they fail to make their dominance count more.
Saying that, the Penguins did enjoy a good start racing into a 2-0 lead just over nine minutes into the first period. Old man Cullen continued his excellent season to score on a juicy rebound offered up by Vasilevskiy. That was Cullen's 4th goal in these play offs and his production is testament to the depth that Pittsburgh has.
Phil Kessel lead the Penguins again later that period with a goal of a swift passing move from Bonino in front of net. Kessel shot into the fairly wide open net to give the Penguins a 2-0 lead. The Lightning tied it up at the end of the first but they were a tad lucky at Stralman's goal to make it 2-1 appeared to go through Murray's glove. Drouin scored the tying goal shooting over Murray's shoulder with under a minute left in the first.
Murray had a fairly shaky start but rebounded to stop the remainder of the Bolts shots and back-stop the Penguins to a win. The winning goal didn't come until overtime with Sidney Crosby scoring his first ever play off overtime goal, something that, oddly, Lemieux never achieved.
The Penguins took the puck straight from face-off and advanced into the zone. Rust carried the puck in and he could have shot himself but instead he dropped the pass to Crosby to rifle it over Vasilevskit and in from a knee drop shot. Crosby needed that goal and the Penguins will hope it brings his production back. The same needs to happen to Malkin. Game 3 is Wednesday and if the Penguins could win that and take a 2-1 lead that would be huge.
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