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Lundqvist keys win as Rangers knock out Penguins

Henrik Lundqvist set an NHL record with his fifth straight Game 7 victory, making 35 saves to lift the New York Rangers to a 2-1 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night and earn a spot in the Eastern Conference finals.

The Rangers' Brian Boyle celebrates his goal with teammates Anton Stralman and Dominic Moore as the Penguins' Sidney Crosby and Olli Maatta skate back to their bench. (AP)
The Rangers' Brian Boyle celebrates his goal with teammates Anton Stralman and Dominic Moore as the Penguins' Sidney Crosby and Olli Maatta skate back to their bench. (AP)Read more
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Henrik Lundqvist set an NHL record with his fifth straight Game 7 victory, making 35 saves to lift the New York Rangers to a 2-1 win over the host Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night and earn a spot in the Eastern Conference finals.

Brian Boyle and Brad Richards scored for New York, which rallied from a three-games-to-one series deficit for the first time in the franchise's 88-year history.

The Rangers did it behind Lundqvist, who stopped 102 of the final 105 shots he faced over the final three games as New York advanced to the conference finals for the second time in three years.

The Rangers will play the winner of the Bruins-Canadiens series in the conference finals. That series is tied at three games apiece and Game 7 is Wednesday night in Boston.

Jussi Jokinen scored his team-high seventh goal of the postseason for the Penguins. Marc-Andre Fleury made 18 saves for the Penguins, who were outscored by 10-3 over the final three games.

Ducks 4, Kings 3 - Devante Smith-Pelly scored two goals 1 minute, 23 seconds apart in the second period, and host Anaheim moved to the brink of the Western Conference finals with a victory over Los Angeles in Game 5 on Monday night.

John Gibson made 39 saves in his second career playoff start as the Ducks took a 3-2 lead in the second-round series with their third straight victory.

Nick Bonino and Jakob Silfverberg also scored for the Ducks, who jumped to a three-goal lead in the second period and hung on behind their 20-year-old rookie goalie, earning the first home victory by either team in the series.

The Kings will face their fifth elimination game of the postseason.

Game 6 is Wednesday at Staples Center.

Get your bid in

A jersey worn by Hockey Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky will go on the auction block this week in Montreal.

Sports collector Shawn Chaulk will sell the Edmonton Oilers jersey worn by the Great One when he broke Phil Esposito's single-season scoring record of 76 goals. Gretzky broke the record with a hat trick against Buffalo in the last seven minutes of a game on Feb. 24, 1982.

Gretzky finished with a record 92 goals that season, a mark that still stands.

Chaulk says the jersey has "significant wear" and "dirty" with "lots of marks and identifiable intricacies and burns."

The price? Perhaps $250,000, he said.

- Associated Press

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