Evening, the sports desk. Liam mchue, mike milbury and keith jones. Thanks so much. We have game six tonight. Martin jones will be a pretty safe place to start. A virtual brick wall in game five, 44 saves. What do the sharks need out of him tonight to force a game seven . Just to state the obvious, game five by martin jones, this was more like clooney and pitt knocking off the casinos in oceans 11. He was everywhere and everything for the San Jose Sharks. They needed this guy to come up large because pittsburgh threw everything at him. Crosbys shot saved by jones at the top of the crease. Mag any september. They need had him to be every bit as good tonight. Now the sharks are on home ice. Pete deboer will be able to control the matchup a little bit more. On the pens side, who does that benefit . It benefits phil kessel. Its the penguins most effective line throughout the playoffs. It does not stop throughout the stanley cup finals. Kessel has been a notable factor when hes on the ice. The speed is the factor, the shot and the pass, underrated passing ability. 81 in white has been good and hes been good while playing in black and gold, as well. This one, ring off the post when it was a 22 games. Jones a little fortunate there and kessel is a guy san jose has to keep an eye on. Its difficult with crosby and malkin in the lineup, as well. Game six, were expecting a high speed affair, but its been a marathon for both clubs. Tonight will mark each teams 106th game. If pittsburgh win webs theyll hoist the cup. If sn jose win withes, theyll make up for a game seven wednesday night, winner take all. Nbc sports welcomes you to the following presentation of the stanley cup finals. Mike forecast here in san jose for the ice is good. The temperature outside was 82 today, but the humidity inside, 51 . So all good. Draw the horses and now with us again, eddie on olczyk, your thoughts on game five . San jose got off to a great start. They were physical, their defensemen were active and they were desperate. How about pittsburgh, resiliency. They had some great chances. But san jose got great goaltending from martin jones. Mike aside from him, who gets it for this night tonight . Eddie for san jose, Logan Couture. He has been outstanding. He played pretty much with everybody he plays in every situation for peter deboer and the sharks. Hes has speed. Hes not afraid to get hit nose dirty. Hes made pretty good plays just by stats, karlsson puts the net in the back of the net. I think Logan Couture continues with his hot happened, he has a good chance for game seven. Mike and the differen differencemakers . Eddie without a doubt, crosby and connor sheary. Crosby with a beautiful pass. You know the big line of bonino, hagelin and kessel had a good game. But these guys were just as good. Nothing to show for it, but they were shong in all three zones. Mike does the cup go back to pittsburgh with the penguins or with nhl security . Stepping to it is donskoi. Letang over to sheary. Goes around, behind. He scores save made by jones oh, and what a save. My goodness. There will be a game at the tank. What are you doing . Sara, i love you, and. [phone rings] ah, its my brother. Keep going. Sara, will you marry. [phone rings again] what do you want, todd . . . . [crowd cheering] keep it going if you sit on your phone, you buttdial people. Its what you do. Todd if you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. I know we just met like, two months ago. Yes [crowd cheering] [crowd cheering over phone] we are the coors and our mountain, y. Is brewing the worlds most refreshing beer. A beer proud enough to wear our name in big, red scripted letters. Thats why we lager, filter and package cold. Because we believe every climb deserves a refreshing finish. Whatever your mountain, climb on. 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Impervious to the increasing weight on his shoulders, martin jones stared down the penguins barrage. Another short turned away. They came for history, but were turned away by greatness. The penguins have won the stanley cup tonight, a franchise fourth title can be brought back to pittsburgh. Lord stanley is close, but yet still far. And for san jose, the message remains. Game six, next. Here in san jose, it is rockus. The tradition of honorary door opener began this spring with the playoffs. Ronnie locke, Condoleezza Rice are among those who have gone to the big double doors. Tonight, that falls to former sharks players, kyle mclaren, mike ricie, seasons here playing for san jose. They get the honors. Lets go lets do it [ cheers and applause ]. [ cheers and applause ]. Mike and on a night of emotions, they threw us a surprise. Evgeni namakov was also there to open the door, a fifth start. The flag came right from the wrist band. The smoke in the lighted sharks red eyes and the opposition from pittsburgh. To the ice, Pierre Mcguire and marc vlasic. Pierre what matters more, the crowd noise or the ice . The crowd noise. We have to feed off of this right now. Pierre pooufb playing against Sidney Crosby since the start of this series. Why have you been able to dominate him the last three games . Ron has been helping out a lot. Hopefully we do that tonight. Pierre what do you need to establish early to force a game seven . Forecheck, more time and try to get the puck through. Pierre have a blast. I will, thanks. Mike there is predictability in the opening of the doors. And also the entrance. And the moment that followed. There is some rehearsal and predictability in the penguins. But what happens in between, totally spontaneous. That will be the fun part. But for now, the last bit of predictability, public address announcer danny miller. Ladies and gentlemen, the National HockeyLeague Family and people everywhere send heartfelt thoughts of condollance, comfort and courage to everyone touched by the horrific events in orlando. We mourn for those who lost their lives and pray for all who have been affected. The nhl, the San Jose Sharks and the Pittsburgh Penguins ask that you please stand and join in a moment of silent reflection on this tragedy. Thank you. And now, please remain standing and join pat monahan, lead singer from the grammy Award Winning multi platinum San Francisco band train in the singing of our national anthem. O say, can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave oer the land of the free and the home of the brave . Mike pat monahan with the singing of the starspangled banner. And now to the goalies. And they are sponsored by honda. Matt murray was 21 when the playoffs started. Hes now 22. The was unknown before the playoffs started, now mentioned as an mvp candidate. 64, described by his coach as calm and controlled. Martin jones, stole the game for the sharks family thursday night. Hadnt played in the playoffs until this spring. 64, described by his coach as calm and controlled. Sidney crosby, in his career of 11 years, no goals in this series. 2 assists. Joel partin, in this series, no goals, three assists. No sound baffled. It is loud. Its okay. Joe pavelski, joe thorpton, joonas donskoi. Eddie right off the back, Sidney Crosby hacking and walking. Mike an icing is called, and a snarl 12 seconds this. Eddie a little bit of a bump on thorpton by crosby. Now he turns the cheek. Joe thornton wins the opening faceoff. Remember what happened in game five as we left pittsburgh. Sidney crosby getting into it with mark edward vlasic. Where he left off, he continues here in game six. Mike it has kunitz to crosbys left and hornqvist to crosbys right. Here is crosby, around behind, able to pull free from his knees. Is able to still make a play, but that one jammed back out and letang will take over there. Then across for dumoulin. Dumoulin ripped it across right from the bench and tapping it legally on was kessel. Dumped right back out and donskoi is able to flow at it i and that unit comes to the bench. Perhaps with more edge and ire than they had at the start of the game because of all that. This one dropped in there, paul martin with the defense, couldnt get it, though. Around the defense of kessel. Lovejoy rockets it right back in and around. Hagelin goes crunching in there. Burns, able to pop it free from him. Maatta, a show carefully sent away by jones. Shot by kessel, tucked away and under the stick of marleau and back down. So now its olli maatta with a long toss ahead. Hagelin flips it on and this is settled down defensively by roman polak and dealt back in by hagelin again. 1 20 into the first period. Floated around off matt theniet. Ward wanted to twist it further. Malkin tried to play it back. Tangled up, though. Popped away from malkin. And handed on now by letang. Turned back up to kunitz. Dumoulin laid it ahead and malkin moves in. He drills and its poked away by the stick help by jones. Kunitz drops it along. Ross dropped there. Dillon takes it. Schultz. Across to ian cole. Lobs it right back around. Polak tries to knock it free and is able to drag it free past malkin and steal it off the short glass and back. Eddie that last turret by malkin, looking for the section of the young penguins forward. Referees say play on. Mike matt cullen whips that one right back in. Martin takes that. Drops it back on for tommy wingel. Matt cullenen dropped it back. Turned along easily by fehr. Martin takes over there. Drops it back around, and it is brent burns for the sharks and headlining it for donskoi. The hero of game three here, hes able to pop it back in and along its taken by dumoulin. Waited a little longer. Meanwhile, thornton. Off the skate and its played right back up by sheary. Dumoulin, on it. Around jones for vlasic. Around by horn kwiflt. Played off of sheary. Second effort. Lovejoy passes to the long end. Maatta came to help and handed it back to him. Sheary again. Surrounded by sharks. Floated back along by vlasic and this one will go back down and become an icing. Eddie joe thornton, joe pavelski trying to hook up. Good awareness by joe thornton. One of the greatest passers in the history of the game. You see that speed, just missing getting his stick on it. Good job by kris letang, lifting pavelskis stick off the ice. Mike with thornton throwing that puck so hard, hes hoping for a bounce somewhere, whether its off a penguin or off the intended receiver, pavelski. Hagelin to bonino. Bonino has kessel nearby. Poked along by braun. Maatta able to hold. He could fought get a shot away. Hops a lolong back to center wh marleau has it knocked along to couture. Deflected up and out of play. Pierre good block by nick bonino. How many times have we said that, nick bonino gobbling up the change. Eddie phil kessel goes to the net and tries to knock this pass out of midair from below the goal line. And youre right, pierre, nick bonino has done it all for Mike Sullivan. Not only his line mates, but in the faceoff, killing some penalties and being so good defensively. Mike thats his 20th blocked shot in this series. He leads every individual in the sport. Thats still playing right now. The American League ended last night with lake erie winning in a sweep over hershey. So this is the only professional league going in north america now. The rest of the champions have been decided. Here is cole turning back. Ian cole puts one highway. Fehr able to grab that one and lob it on hoping for kuhnhackl but instead getting polak. On back for tierney. Coming across is malkin. Then maatta. 4 15 have been played here. The shots are 1 for pittsburgh, none for the sharks. That one is held by jones. Dont miss a moment of the stanley cup final with nbc sports live extra streaming every game free with your tv subscription. That includes nbcsn available online, on the go and on connected tv. For details, visit nbcsports. Com liveextra. Eddie in is where last change matters. Right now, crosby is on the ice with sheary and hornqvist been out comes marc edward vlasic and justin braun. Eddie Mike Sullivan had the malkin line out. As pierre said, here comes the crosby unit. Mike letang from that faceoff win by crosby. He has trouble getting the shot away. Thornton played it back out. Turned on to crosby. Able to pivot back in and dropped one on for hornqvist who is chased on by thornton. Around for crosby in front for sheary. The shot ricocheted off of vlasic. Off sheary. Taken along by crosby. Spiked along is letang. Around for crosby, flicked along by braun. Careened back to crosby. Satellited back to dumoulin. Wide. Along now for letang, keeps the pressure on. Drops it back in, vlasic there to get it. Dumoulin there. Its covered by crosby. Led across to sheary. Pivots with it and ran into some traffic generated by a lone defenseman and that was maatta. Meanwhile, advanced ahead for thornton. Dropped it back to donskoi. Donskoi with a shot. Send it on back. Off martin and is its taken by crosby. Carried right back ahead. Logan for kunitz, no luck. And jabbed on back. The it looked like one of those table hockey games for a minute, didnt it . Right back comes malkin. Drive that one doubled after it came off of jones. Pierre no changes here, eddie. Without question, looking at this area here. San jose, looks like its a threeontwo for the penguins. Thats seven or eight players on the ice. And then the play from Sidney Crosby below the goal line to conor sheary, not able to pull the trigger. Outstanding play and the ability of Sidney Crosby from the goal line to get that puck. Mike here is kunitz. Taken off there effectively by dillon. 2kr07d back by rust to kunitz again. Banks one along for malkin. Wanted to pump it on. No luck there. Good defense by polak. Letang has shot, just up and over the glove. Off the stick of malkin and back. Malkin. It is grabbed up and started back in by marleau. Offsides is the call. 13 50 to go first period of play. Only two shots in the game, both from the penguins. And no score. 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