Nashville went through St. Louis and then Anaheim, with only captain Mike Fisher carrying any Cup Final experience on the roster.Nashville lost for just the first time in regulation on home ice this postseason.Matt Murray became the first goalie to win not one, but two Stanley Cups as a rookie after being a late-season call up a year ago and didn't play enough games to get that tag removed. With Rinne pulled for an extra attacker, Carl Hagelin set off a bench celebration with an empty netter with 13.6 seconds left.This championship season for the Penguins lacked some of the drama from a year ago, but it was far from a slam dunk.
Thanks to one of the more bizarre Cup-clinching goals in recent league history, Pittsburgh took the series 4-2 and became the first team to win back-to-back titles in the salary-cap era. With history against them to defend the title, the Penguins made goalie Matt Murray their official starter and went to work.The Stanley Cup win is not just the fifth win for the team, but also the fifth win for team owner, Mario Lemieux. The Stanley Cup has been around since 1892. The Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and '98 were the last champion to defend their title, but the Penguins are the first to do it in the salary cap era.The Penguins also killed off 32 seconds of a 5-on-3 at 8:47 of the third after Trevor Daley punched Ryan Ellis with Olli Maatta already in the box for tripping. The official 2017 NHL playoff matchup page of the Pittsburgh Penguins vs the Nashville Predators including news, stats, and video. The Hockey News reports that the Habs defenceman won the Stanley Cup seven times, and is the only player in NHL history to win exactly seven.
Officials huddled, but the goal was not allowed.Hornqvist scored off Nashville goalie Pekka Rinne's left elbow to end the scoreless game. Home › This Team Won The 2016 & 2017 Stanley Cup Unisex short sleeve t-shirt. Washington won the President's Trophy for a second straight season and pushed Pittsburgh to seven games in the second round.
The victory parade downtown had a record-setting crowd of 650,000 fans. We just kept finding ways. The Stanley Cup is a trophy awarded annually to the playoff champion club of the National … Overall, the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs proved to be an outstanding spectacle. The official home of the 2017 National Hockey League Playoff Page including playoff news, bracket, and video. Pittsburgh hockey fans can celebrate their back-to-back Stanley Cup championships with this TriviaTees T-shirt! That's something neither Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden or Cam Ward ever managed, but the 23-year-old Murray finished this Cup Final shutting out Nashville for the final 126:52.Crosby, Malkin and others also played in the World Cup of Hockey before the season, making this an even longer year than usual. This was the first playoff meeting between these teams.