Teammates call him "Gino," but Evgeni Malkin is making a case in the Stanley Cup playoffs for a new nickname: Blank Check. ... Malkin's two goals - including a scorching slap shot from about 20 feet on a shorthanded breakaway - steered the Penguins to a 4-2 victory...
PITTSBURGH - Raw emotion is like a shot of adrenaline. It can lift a team for a little while, but sooner or later it wears off. ... By Phil Sheridan Inquirer Sports Columnist PITTSBURGH - The Flyers were hit with two shots of pure emotion before Game 1 of their showdown...
By Tom Reed, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio May 10--PITTSBURGH -- Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Martin Biron made his NHL debut 13 years ago in Mellon Arena. ... Facing a new wave of Penguins sharpshooters, Biron surrendered four goals in the first 25 minutes, and the...
By Ray Parrillo, The Philadelphia Inquirer May 10--PITTSBURGH -- In the first two rounds of the playoffs, the Flyers spun the pistol chambers in their game of Russian roulette and came through unwounded. ... Now from Russia with no love lost for the Flyers is...
With Evgeni Malkin doing his best Mario Lemieux impression, even a healthy Kimmo Timonen might not have made a difference. The Philadelphia Flyers probably needed an in-his-prime Bobby Clarke, and maybe more, to stop this. ... Malkin scored two dazzling goals five...
PITTSBURGH - For all the skill he possesses at age 21, all the goals he's scored, all he's done to put the Pittsburgh Penguins three victories away from the Stanley Cup finals, Evgeni Malkin has a weakness. Give him a breakaway, and one of the NHL's best players becomes just another player.
For all the skill he possesses at age 21, all the goals he's scored, all he's done to put the Pittsburgh Penguins three victories away from the Stanley Cup finals, Evgeni Malkin has a weakness. Give him a breakaway, and one of the NHL's best players becomes just another player.
It would be easy, acceptable and only a little unethical to attribute the mediocrity of playoff predictions this spring to parity overtaking the NHL. ... We take great relief in knowing the Canadiens and Rangers are feeling a whole lot worse than we are right now. The...
By ALAN ROBINSON , Associated Press PITTSBURGH - For all the skill he possesses at age 21, all the goals he's scored, all he's done to put the Pittsburgh Penguins three victories away from the Stanley Cup finals, Evgeni Malkin has a weakness. At least that was the case...
PITTSBURGH - Evgeni Malkin scored two dazzling goals 5 minutes apart to give Pittsburgh a two-goal l... ... PITTSBURGH - Evgeni Malkin scored two dazzling goals 5 minutes apart to give Pittsburgh a two-goal lead, after Sidney Crosby tied it, and the Penguins rode their...