TAMPA, Fla. — Ben Bishop stopped 34 shots and Alex Killorn scored with less than two minutes remaining Thursday night as the Tampa Bay Lightning advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.
Killorn’s second winning goal of the series was set up by Ryan Callahan, who retrieved goalie Petr Mrazek’s bad pass behind the Detroit net and centered the puck in the crease for Killorn’s backhander at 18:17 of the third period.
Tampa Bay eliminated the Red Wings in the first round for the second straight year. Detroit pushed the defending Eastern Conference champions to seven games a year ago, but could only beat them once in five attempts this time, with Killorn, Tyler Johnson and Nikita Kucherov picking up the offensive slack for Tampa Bay with star Steven Stamkos injured.
PENGUINS 5, RANGERS 0: Flashing his old brilliance, Evgeni Malkin scored two goals and set up two others, and Pittsburgh pushed host New York to the brink of elimination from the playoffs.
Malkin, whose four points tied his single-game high in the postseason, assisted on two of the Penguins’ three first-period goals in helping Pittsburgh dominate the Rangers for the second consecutive game and take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven first-round series.
Sidney Crosby, who added two assists, and the Penguins can wrap up things in Game 5 in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
DUCKS 4, PREDATORS 1: Nate Thompson and Jamie McGinn scored nearly 2 minutes apart late in the second period, as Anaheim won at Nashville to even up their first-round series at 2-2.
Game 5 is Saturday.
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