Ottawa Senators vs Pittsburgh Penguins Live Streaming

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7:00 pm EDT Thu Apr 22, 2010

The young Penguins have been through everything the playoffs can offer over the past three years, but the relatively benign scenario they face in Game 5 against the Ottawa Senators is perhaps the one they’ve been least adept at handling. In advancing to the Stanley Cup finals each of the past two years, defending champion Pittsburgh twice came back to win series after losing the first two games. It also won Game 7 twice on the road and was 4-1 when facing elimination. But the Penguins have lost four of six times since 2008 in their first opportunity to end a series in a game they do not face elimination themselves— and that’s what they face Thursday. Pittsburgh leads the series 3-1 after winning three straight, including two in Ottawa. This year is obviously a new year. You learn from it. That is the good thing about the experience we have gained in the last couple years where we have been playing a lot of playoff games.

Facing a similar situation in the first round against Philadelphia last season, the Penguins played one of their worst games of their postseason in a 3-0 loss at home in Game 5. In this season’s first round, the Penguins have seemingly gotten better as the series has progressed. They took a 4-0 lead about 6 minutes into the second period of Game 4 on Tuesday and went on to a 7-4 victory, having outscored Ottawa 13-7 since losing 5-4 in Game 1. The Senators have seen things deteriorate markedly since winning Game 1 and taking an early lead in Game 2—that game tied with 5 minutes left until Sidney Crosby set up Kris Letang for the winner. Crosby by far leads the Stanley Cup playoffs with 11 points. Crosby hasn’t been the only source of Pittsburgh offense, though. The Penguins lead the playoffs with 4.25 goals per game. Slowing down that attack is the only way Ottawa can come back to win a series from a 3-1 deficit for the first time in franchise history.