In two distinctive eras, the Rangers facing the Penguins felt like a almost yearly playoff matchup.
6 a long time right after they past satisfied, they’ll do so once again beginning Tuesday at the Back garden. And however there are some holdovers (howdy, Sidney Crosby) from Pittsburgh’s 4-1 1st-spherical sequence victory in 2016, most of the faces concerned are new to Rangers-Penguins postseason lore.
There is a prosperous background for them to get acquainted with. The Put up breaks down the seven playoff sequence amongst the two groups.
2016: Penguins defeat Rangers, 4-1
Irrespective of a encounter-saving Rangers victory in Activity 2, this sequence was rather of a pantsing. The Penguins received every of their 4 games by two or a lot more goals, which include a 5- victory at The Backyard garden in Sport 4. Rangers backup goaltender Antti Raanta was pressured into motion three instances in the sequence.
2015: Rangers defeat Penguins, 4-1
This sequence, also in the 1st spherical, was a lot more tightly contested, with each individual video game decided by a target. A pair of extra time winners, from Kevin Hayes in Video game 4 and Carl Hagelin in Video game 5, clinched the collection for the Rangers.
2014: Rangers conquer Penguins, 4-3
Probably the most memorable collection amongst the two was this second-spherical matchup. The Rangers ended up down 3-1 for Recreation 5 in Pittsburgh, and they looked finished, when Martin St. Louis received the information his mother, France, experienced died of a coronary heart attack at age 63.
St. Louis still left the crew to be with his family members, returning to engage in Sport 5, in which the Rangers dominated for a 5-1 win. In Video game 6, on Mother’s Working day at MSG, St. Louis scored the opening goal in a 3-1 victory, and in Sport 7, he notched the most important aid on Brad Richards’ eventual match-winner. The Rangers attained the Stanley Cup Last for the 1st time in 20 a long time, although they lost to the Kings.
2008: Penguins beat Rangers, 4-1
While the Rangers hung tight in most of the online games, the Penguins had their selection in this collection on their way to the very first of two consecutive Cup finals. The Rangers didn’t have an solution for Evgeni Malkin or Marian Hossa, who scored 4 times apiece in excess of five video games, with Hossa having the next-round collection clincher in extra time Recreation 5.
1996: Penguins beat Rangers, 4-1
Just two years taken off from their Cup operate, the Rangers were being very easily dispatched by Pittsburgh in the next round. Mario Lemieux scored eight ambitions in the collection and Jaromir Jagr experienced a hat trick in the decisive Video game 5 — a 7-3 victory for the Penguins on dwelling ice.
1992: Penguins beat Rangers, 4-2
Right after the Rangers won the Presidents’ Trophy for the duration of the typical season, the Penguins completed an upset in the Patrick Division closing on their way to a second straight Stanley Cup in a sequence that introduced controversy and a lot more than a single memorable instant.
Adam Graves broke Lemieux’s left wrist with a slash in Video game 2, which the Rangers gained with a few 3rd-time period objectives. The NHL declined to suspend Graves for Sport 3, but did ban him for Activity 4, which was when the Penguins turned the collection in their favor. With the Rangers main 3-1 toward the close of the next period, Ron Francis scored at 19:54 on a shot from the neutral zone that acquired as a result of Mike Richter, environment the stage for a comeback that Francis capped at 2:47 of time beyond regulation.
Pittsburgh hardly ever looked back again, winning the up coming two video games of the series to end off the Rangers and increase the “1940” chants for one more 12 months.
1989: Penguins beat Rangers, 4-
The decisive Match 4 was the only activity in the division-semifinals series determined by one target as the Rangers couldn’t solve goaltender Tom Barrasso, who had a .930 preserve share in the collection, or Paul Coffey, who led the Penguins with 9 points.
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