>> mike: welcome back to soop center where after two periods of the game six stanley cup finals, pittsburgh leads san jose, 2-1. the penguins last captured the stanley cup exactly seven years ago today. if this score holds, they'll take home forefourth cup in franchise history. mike sullivan, who is he leading on in the third? >> keith: his veteran players and they've been outstanding here with the exception of the kunitz pass to malkin. eshdz have buried that. paying the price, blocking the shot. hornqvist doing the same, diving across here and blocking that one. letang takes over the last period. the tiebreaking goal is all about 58. jumps all the way down examine gets open for the pass from 87. crosby with the feed, letang with the goal and the two veteran stars looking forward to hoisting the stanley cup here if they can hold on to that lead.. >> liam: on the other side, you're peter be deboer. they're down 2-1. facing elimination. peter deboer talked a lot about not changing, staying the course. how do you handle the third? >> mike: changed his lineups, not the personnel, but the combinations he's used. he's still going to go to those veteran players. they're earned the right to be there. stanley cup final playing a very good game. you'll see tons of thornton, pavelski and couture. these are guys that are going to have to go to the well to find a way to tie this pup and one other thing, the defense will be jumping up into the play every chance they get. >> liam: and we're getting ready for this building to get very loud. the pens lead the sharks, 2-1. if it finishes this way, we'll have hand shakes and the cup will be passed around. but if the sharks bounce back and win, we will see a game seven. third period, next. this is claire in phoenix. can i help you? yes! great. correct! ma'am. this isn't an automated computer... operator! ma'am. i'm here. i'm live. wait. you're real? yeah. with discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u.s. day or night. plus, we're not going to waste your time trying to sell you a bunch of other products you don't really need. that is really nice of you. i feel really bad about shouting at you. oh, you weren't shouting. you were just speaking in all caps. nhl fans, we treat you like you'd treat you. show your team pride at discover.com/nhlcard how do you choose a mcpick 2?et a mcpick2! are you a beard-stroker? or a visualizer? perhaps you're a hand-warmer... a lip-pursing eyebrow shifter... or maybe a do-a-little-dancer. however you choose, get just what you're craving with a mcpick 2... ♪ lemme get a mcpick2! for a limited time, choose any two mcdonald's classics for five bucks. like the 100% beef big mac, filet-o-fish made with sustainably sourced fish, or 10-piece chicken mcnuggets made with white meat! enjoy the choice! ♪ lemme get a mcpick2! find more delicious deals in our app. ♪ ba da da da da at enterprise, we get hockey fans. we understand that losing your favorite hat... ...means it was a great night. and the longer you play, the longer your beard gets... that's why enterprise is a proud sponsor of the nhl. so no matter how big the game... or how small the players... we love getting hockey fans from our seats to yours. that's the enterprise way. pick enterprise. we'll pick you up. a house is something you buy. ♪ a home is something you make yourself. whatever your mountain, climb on. ♪ >> liam: it's the 25th anniversary of the san jose sharks and the penguins are leading them, 2-1. igor larry hannah. remember him? they brought back alumni. goalie archers urv ay. the stanley cup final on nbc is brought to you by -- whoa, whoa, i got this. just gotta get the check. almost there. i can't reach it. if you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. what? it's what you do. i got this. thanks, dennis! if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. growwwlph. it's what you do. oh that is good crispy duck. 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100. drawn along by braun. kept by dumoulin. dropped back and fiddled on the backhand by couture. dumoulin across. letang ahead. off of hornqvist and back in for martin jones. the shot, 20-17. through two periods. thornton, but then lovejoy. bonino, and then hagelin and then ahead now for kessel. kessel, a shot and that one deflected up high and out of play by paul martin. it was on this date in 2009 the penguins won game seven at joe lewis arena in detroit. tonight's backup, marc-andre fleury made a brilliant save with 1.5 seconds to go. speaking of detroit, as you see marc-andre on this date in 1958, at age 30, they named gordie howe captain of the red wings. offensive zone face-off for the penguins here. they pull kessel slightly back and he got it. kessel rolls and shoots one. that one went off jones and wide. started back up again and nudged on by ward. moving up, nieto. both he and the net minder, murray, missed it. murray went skidding out. played out by kessel, but he can't make a pass. ward, able to take that one and circle back. one chaotic shift after another. a one-goal game in the balance. oh, and the stanley cup, too, which is still packed. so far, it's not been taken out of the case. so far as we know. we have cameras everywhere. here is malkin, taking this one ask trying to step through. that one forced away and can be carried back now defensively by donskoi. ship with a pass to burns. that one rattled off polak. played back by pavelski. led ahead, pavelski drops it back to thornton. brushed it to pavelski behind. defended by matt cullen. behind is lovejoy. they spar for it again and lovejoy is able to wheel it back off. dillon, challenge there by fehr. fehr continues to work and got it back out with one hand. fehr. the glove remains out on the ice as he comes to the bench for a change. murray hands it over to maatta. rolled it carefully out to center. two-on-five play in the second period. the penguins, if they win this will take the stanley cup back home to pittsburgh. it will be the fourth time this will have won it. hornqvist across. crosby over to sheary. could be the get through. polak touches it the other way. along to hornqvist. around in front. crosby, backhander, went wide. around to take it to sheary again. landed on to the back pedal. down by cole. given across to letang. rips one on to sheary. came on back to cole. the flip back into the glove of crosby. channeled back over to sheary. surrounded by sharks, controlled away from them from one knee. away to hornqvist, then letang to crosby. crosby turn to go shake polak. goes around behind. crosby slams on the brakes again. looks to the front, sheary is there. crosby weaves to the outside now. crosby with a wrister and that turned aside by jones. and floated back out to center. kessel able to bring it back on. shoots one and that deflected to the high glass and around to hagelin. backhanded it around behind. braun steps it back for the sharks. banged around by dumoulin. handed across to martin. kessel with a hurried shot that's wide. hagelin. back to dumoulin. touched it along. sharks try to work there way out, loose puck picked up by bonino again. moving back to the net, bonino, challenge. backhander set aside. around behind kessel. stolen away by karlsson. and ahead they come again. brought on by couture. ahead for karlsson. touched and stopped and covered by matt murray in goal. >> eddie: a chance at one end, matt murray shoots. sidney crosby, he's been a dominant player here in game number six. gets that puck on the back end, whistles it wide to the left of martin jones, eddie. >> eddie: and there's joel ward. off the boards, goes by letang. collides in with matt murray. a good job by nieto to get open through the middle of the ice. a little support. indirect pass. then a surge there by the penguins, as you mentioned, doc, that line of hornqvist-sheary and crosby doing a lot of the damage there, dumping in behind pp martin jones. >> pierre: cullen and thornton, a couple of old war histories go at this one. >> mike: cullen, able to walk away. on to pare. fehr off of kunitz. around behind is matt cullen to take it. joe thornton got the referee with that check, as well. a save made by jones. nice down by donskoi. closed off by fehr. burns off thornton. kuhnhackl hands on to rust. rust, sweeping along. around mind. took a whack from burns. then along the to donskoi. pulls it away. lobs it carefully out. maatta to play and hand over to letang. cuts ahead to malkin. malkin glides now, pivots to the outside. backhander back down. another drive by kunitz is wide. in a malkin, a shot that was wide. along by lovejoy. kunitz after that one. braun defending him, took it away. it is polak yet again for the defense of the sharks. off the glove of nieto. played by lovejoy. you've of kunitz. up by crosby, jump just tapped on back. lovejoy to play that. a couple of head fakes. crosby. down along to braun for a shot. braun gave it across. vlasic, a shot. sprawling play made by hornqvist. vlasic knifes it behind. back to the corner. tierney. turny tries to shake it along. lovejoy got in the way. it's cut off and jab bed on bac by marleau. lovejoy in the way yet again. sheary, able to bring it back out again. on for the penguins, sheary starts ahead and a penalty. the call is a hook. a power play coming up for the sharks. >> pierre: two minute men getting together. conor sheary try toes play chip and chase on justin braun. calls him down. there's a chip, no chase. then he gets his stick parallel to the ice into the mid section of braun. >> eddie: patric hornqvist with a great shot block on the chance for marc-edouard vlasic right before that penalty by conor sheary. when you have a team that's blocking so many shots, like the penguins are, 21 after two periods of play, three already here in the third. once you get that puck, you can't hold on to it. you can't dust it off. you have to get it to the net as quick as you can. >> pierre: this used to be the bread and butter for san jose. in this series, only one for the pens. go back to game one, the power play goal and tomas hertl who thought he was playing here tonight. >> mike: this one whipped back out and down. here in san jose, the sharks are 0 for 5 on the power play. and because that was played by a high stick, it will come all the way back to their end of the ice for the resulting face-off. >> eddie: the sharks power play, very predictable on how they try to set up, use their points a lot. look for players swinging out. to try and attack down the -- on either side of the ice. maybe a little bit of a different look might be for the sharks is maybe to try to work the puck down low and work from the goal line out. give a little bit of a different look to a confident penalty killing team. >> mike: here comes couture, the most productive player in this series. couture turns and dishes it back to burns. delay. denied by fehr. and it's passed on now and can be placed further by lovejoy and cleared back down. >> eddie: burns had a chance to move the puck down low right there. tried to do a little too much on that play. >> mike: pavelski rips it ahead. carried on by ward. flipped on to couture. it's lifted over pavelski and back down again. halfway through the penalty kill for the penguins, no shots on goal yet for the sharks. vlasic connects ahead. tierney brought it on. sent it off the boards to ward. slams on the brakes and hands it back. paul martin with it there. martin waits, gets over to vlasic. vlasic, a shot and that went hi high. waving ate the ways tierney. played on to him by ward. ward across to vlasic. speed it back in. that one speared by le tack and sent back down. 25 to go on the penalty kill to the penguins. under 13 minutes to go, third period. paul martin, able to bring it on and happened it there for burns. he hands it on across now to couture. couture with a shot. deflected up high by ben lovejoy and that one popped out of play. >> pierre: exactly what i was talking about a little earlier. the sharks have the puck along the boards. they're going to move it down and now the options are here are in front like that. vlasic is open. the puck ended up being airmailed and a good stick for brian dumoulin. so a little different look by the sharks. and then eric fehr with a real good stick on brent burns. again, he had a chance to move the puck a little bit earlier and allow fehr to get in that lane. >> mike: huge face-off win and it's clear. that was with ten seconds left on the penalty kill. two seconds and one. sheary is out of the box. not a shot on the power play. and it is letang to play it. and then lose it and then shuffle it ahead. pavelski came by, but a good denial by hornqvist. dancing ahead is crosby. crisscrossing with sheary. drops it back to dumoulin. flyers on the glove of jones, swatted away and a good reach by vlasic. on for sheary again. sheary threw one. that was cut off by braun. and sped ahead for pavelski. jabs it on across. couture moving with thornton and he got it to him. off the boards, vlasic. and he dealt it back this. letang is able to filter it through to dumoulin. rolled back along for a tlip by sheary that comes on to crosby. hooks it across and thornton brushes it back defensively and paul martin can play it ahead. nieto to get it there and hurries it back in. touched on by lovejoy. flipped further by maatta. at center ice, it's polak having to chase it further. it's reverse, but right over to kunitz. kunitz by tierney. dumps around behind but it is polak able to slug it back on and it's curled out to lovejoy for the careful play back in. more changes in line. bonino and hagelin and kessel come out for the penguins. nicely moving. and the shot went wide, glancing off cole. bonino. puck went behind to cole. stepping along behind and playing further off hagelin. reaching with kessel, deny, martin. back ahead now it's letang again. karlsson on the forecheck after him. smokes him out. but it's letang to come ahead. letang, able to work his way along and throw it back in. more changes in line for the penguins. as burns settles it down and goes circle to circle to martin. right back ahead, past karlsson. fielded there by lovejoy. banked on ahead away from sheary. charges after it. donskoi there. sheary reached in. puck came to thornton. shuffle edit off the short glass and back down. no icing on this play. maatta stepped into by pavelski. on for hornqvist. glanced off the hip of sheary. thornton able to throw it across. burns again nearing the halfway point of the third period. rattled on around and thornton steps to it there. guided further, lovejoy in the way. meanwhile, the puck battled for by pavelski, tipped by thornton beyond and across to vlasic. doubles one, deflected. right around -- oh! intercepted. i was trying to find thornton. vlasic again directed by donskoi. reverse by thornton, grabbed by vlasic. gloved by hornqvist and across to braun. gives it on back, vlasic again. blocked. hands its over to braun. kessel, deflected by sheary. dead ahead for cullen. cullen gets to the red line, drops it back in. another shift change. >> eddie: four shots of the penguins in this period. only one for the sharks. >> mike: a lot of attempts, but they're just not getting through. braun again. that has been the story of this lightly named pittsburgh defense. all of the names have become very prominent by the time the second round against washington was over. now it's dumoulin, handing on. jabbed back up the boards and it goes back down. well short of icing taken by martin. 9:15 to go. off nieto. then ward. ward, able to march back in with it. now onside play. back over to burns. battled and knocked away by kessel. kessel starting ahead. there will be a penalty coming up. the call is a slash and a power play. coming up for the penguins. burns to the box. dumoulin, shot was blocked by martin jones. this remains a 2-1 game. pittsburgh ahead, you're watching the nhl stanley cup final presented by geico. when you booked this trip, you didn't know we had hundreds of thousands of places to stay all over the world. or that we searched billions of flights to get you here. a few weeks ago, you didn't even know where here was. now the only thing you don't know, is how you're gonna leave. expedia. technology that connects you to the people and places that matter. >> pierre: so here in the third, brent burns, slashing. power play under way. crosby in the feet of malkin, defending away by spaling. away and down. >> eddie: this number one power play, usually they have a forward back there with kris letang. but a little safer here third period, up by one on the power play. >> mike: malkin with a shot that's deflected into the mesh above the glass. >> eddie: brent burns on the back check trying to deny phil kessel and he does. you see the stick. slashed in half. if you're wearing stripes, there's no option there. so crosby, in on the face-off against tierney. >> mike: kessel on one side, malkin on the other. letang and schultz. tierney with a face-off win. along by vlasic. hit off crosby. played back up by teern thee. working out there with karlsson. karlsson got a touch on that. wanted to work further and crosby comes by and takes it. karlsson hurries to the bench, is replaced by joel ward. nieto comes out as a penalty killing forward, as well. vlasic back on defense with braun. malkin there, sent it on across and it's hurried back up again by phil kessel. leading goal scorer for the penguins. second leading among active players in these playoffs. pavelski being the leader. 14 for him. 10 for kessel. kucherov has been out for a while, but he has had 11 for san jose. sheary bumps it back this. martin to play it there. across by hornqvist, blasted around by polak and down. a not a shot on the power play yet. 35 to go in it. 7:30 to go third period. ahead now is bonino. moving back in, he has sheary nearby. played it back in deep. along, it is controlled there and cleared. back down the ice. what a play made by karlsson. to the last quarter minute. letang now. sharks to move it ahead. in had no particular hurry, it's directed back in by cullen. racing back in is fehr. . seven minutes to go. two seconds and one on the power play. out of the box is burns. fehr able to pop into the corner. around and behind by cullen. goes back after it again. wedged off by vlasic. it can be hoisted back out again by pavelski. letang, able to settle down on the bounce. 6:45 to go in the third. if the score remains, the penguins win the stanley cup. if the sharks win it, it's a game seven in pittsburgh. sheary, able to control. fed one to the corner. hornqvist goes in for that one. flicks it around behind to crosby. tries to settle it down, 1y578ed one that went off of polak. it's played back up high off the glass. there is no penalty that will come from that. 6:22 to go, third 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(carbonation fizz)snow) unleash a refreshing citrus kick. do the dew. >> mike: it is late in the third. it's time to take it out of the box in case it gets handed over to sidney crosby and his teammates tonight. first presented in 1893, 35 pounds, three feet tall, and your name goes on it. off the tie up. kunitz to the corner. polak after it. right on him is malkin. 6:15 to go. lovejoy able to sail it back around. stopped there by jones. left for dillon. polak ahead. banks it back and down the ice. watching it is murray. and it's taken along now by maatta. olli maatta bounces it ahead. came on now to kunitz. one-on-one martin dropping back to donskoi. malkin tries to fight his way to the front. and he wraps it up a bit. played on to kunitz. side of the net, kessel, shot. save is may made by jones on kessel. my, oh, my, oh, my. taken around by tierney. dumped back further. and the bouncer is settled down by marleau at center. the 18-year shark is able to steam it back in and ms coto the bench for a change. martin jones with a remarkable save on phil kessel. one of a bunch tonight. no icing on this play. 5:15 left. vlasic on. punched on out to center. brought back in by pavelski. pavelski to the outside. waiting is vlasic. pumped it behind. pavelski try toes escape there. vlasic, a hurried shot. that one pinballed wide can be taken on by couture and it's thrown by braun and rescued from letang. can't play along as he's harassed on the play by crosby. crosby, trying to force it along further. back after it is hornqvist. layed back along to kunitz. back to lovejoy. shot back to him. lovejoy yet again, pops one in the air. kunitz settles it down. meanwhile, the penguins are making a change. malkin's unit is out there. mat kin alongside to ward. burns, able to lob it back as far as maatta. turning right back with it is bryan rust. shouldersed by ward. back deep it goes to burns. let's back across to paul martin. martin passes on the money to karlsson. wide is the shot. spaling couldn't stop that one. taken by hagland and a quick change by the penguins. moves up with hagelin. the shot, save and covered by jones. 4:0 to go. third period to play. the bumpy ride to the finish, or maybe not. wow, 2-1, penguins, late third. , push us back, knock us down, tell us it can't be done. but then one day, you reach the summit. and you realize, the harder the climb, the better the reward. whatever your mountain, climb on. 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(both simultaneously) thank you. at discover, we treat you like you'd treat you. get the it card with late payment forgiveness. >> mike: it is 2-1. this guy was responsible for the sixth game being played here. he is responsible for it being a one-goal game. one shot on goal all period for the sharks. who desperately need to get the game tied. but one single shot is all that has gone through. maatta settled it down. kessel clicks it back this. under four minutes to go. tierney brought it ahead. braun skates after this one. but offside is called with 3:43 left. anytime now that the puck is along the boards, and the penguins zone, expect peter deboer's defense to be aggressive. we heard keith jones and mike m had ulbury talking about that in the second intermission. san jose has really not been able to keep pucks alive as much as they would like. but now you're in a territory where you've got the to take some chances. so when the puck is along the board, expect their defense to be really active. face-off win by crosby. turned back over. not once, but twice. hornqvist is able to lob it back in. 3:30 to go. it is on vlasic's stick and popped ahead. letang moves in had to keep it going the other way further. vlasic turns there by hornqvist. fed back quickly to couture. moves back up along with thornton. dashes it back around to letang. cuts it into pavelski. the two of them must go for it again. laid up to hornqvist. filtered back down. another obedient change in line for the penguins with 3:08 to go. eventually, if it doesn't change, martin jones will be pulled for an extra attacker. hockey's version of russian roulette, but that is coming up.. fans are upset because of an icing call against their team. a conversation between the linesman and wes macaulay, perhaps over the icing call. but it will stay right there in front of martin jones. and now, it's in the two. and a hand pass stops the clock with 2:55 to go. >> eddie: for the penguins, the blue line becomes so important. the message coming from the coaches this time of the game, got to get the puck out of our blue line and get it in at the sharks blue line. you don't want any turnovers. that area of the ice. >> mike: malkin wins it, maatta takes it. lovejoy in ahead. off of fehr and back down. jones, able to tend it there. jones saw burns come by. poke it along now for vlasic. rushing along further was hornqvist. gets ahead and letang flips it. it's knocked down by burns. tries to get by, but it was played with a high stick. 2:37 to go here in the third. and still, just a single shot on goal for the sharks here in the third period. they have attempted several. but they've either gone wide or they've been blocked and that has been a nemesis of theirs, the penguins shot blocking, not only by forwards, but by defensemen. 29 shots blocked tonight. the team in black, gold and white. the team in teal rushes in. that's bloken by a waft back out that is turned along by braun, punched back in yet ben by donskoi. chased down by dumoulin. pursued by tierney. jammed one along the top to turny, then along to dumoulin. battled for in the corner. dropped off by donskoi, sent back up to cullen, who has ten to go. vlasic will go back to play it. touched back along to donskoi again. we'll keep an eye on jones as we're down to the two minute mark here. two minutes to go, third period, game six. rolled right back in. around, over for paul martin, jabs it on to couture. couture starts it ahead with as pass over to pavelski. couture is able to get in and then it's coming to the bench, it's jones. the extra attacker is out. it is hit by the high stick of burns, but the penguins get it, so there's no whistle. paul martin back, harassed by hagelin. back up the boards pore the turning ward. 90 seconds to go. ward able to bring it ahead. batted on to thornton. and he whips it in. letang, along and it's knocked down by burns. second effort, on now to vlasic. hurry hadries it back to pavelski. 1:15 to go. letang dropped it on. off by couture. back to burns who kept it in. vlasic there. doubled, knocked down by crosby. out to hornqvist. hornqvist with the net empty. he scores! we've talked a lot about shot blocking in this series by the pittsburgh penguins. another shot block by sidney crosby. patience with the puck makes the play, hornqvist gets the red line, gets the blue line, fires it into the empty net. still lots of hockey to be played. 1:02 let me tell to go. and the reaction from mario lemieux and his wife, natalie. 1:02 left to go here in the third and the penguins up by two. settle down by murray. letang fired it around. that one pumped across now and taken by donskoi. headed back to the bench again is jones for the extra man. donskoi, shot made by murray. rebound is poked away. around behind, having a stick held was dumoulin. but he pulled free to battle for this one. donskoi, able to take it away nicely. rolled it back now and it's couture. fires and blocked by the corner and can be played along now. thrown along by hagelin. there will be an icing on this play with 30.2 to go. >> eddie: got to be a time-out coming, without question. >> mike: back in december when mike sullivan came here, he told the players from the captain all the way up and through the ranks to the backup goaltender, you guys are professionals. despite the chaos that we have right now, you just play. during this time-out, you saw those strips. it looked like strips of tape. and they have written on those a "w" for each win and a checkmark for each playoff series won. they lack a "w" and a checkmark. 30.2 to go. the deficit for the home team is two. >> pierre: the 230th player picked in the 2005 draft. patric hornqvist, the man that set them up for that empty net goal. he was the first player picked in that very same draft. they have had instantaneous chemistry ever since mike sullivan put them together and kept them together. >> mike: trying to yell in a couple of goals here, they are standing and waving towels, nobody telling them to do it. vlasic set up, couture, the drive. went wide. swept around by letang. burns, unable to get there. hustling across is couture at center. this comes along to hagelin with the net empty. his shot is blocked away by couture. vlasic to play it. cleared back down on goal. matt murray has it. and we get a stoppage of play and a penalty is coming up. a high stick has been signaled by the referee, wes macaulay. >> eddie: and eric fehr is headed to the box. there is the stick on joe pavelski. >> mike: those who remain here are standing in support of a team that has caused skepticism in the past, but not this year. vlasic, a shot. knocked down in front. picked up by crosby. lobbed down the ice. and the pittsburgh penguins have won the stanley cup! they are mobbing matt murray. he's keeled over from the acac. the extras that have been a part of the practices come leaping out on to the ice enjoying all of the secelebrating around the net. there are only six minutes members of this team that have ever won the stanley cup before. it is so new to the rest. out of the playoffs on december the 12th, the hottest team in the nhl from around christmastime to the end, including this. but the chant of the home crowd is for their team. they are proud. >> eddie: the tradition that was first traced by historians to 1904 before the nhl even existed. the ceremonial handshake. the sharks wait patiently, hoping that they would be the ones with smiles this time. not so, but for the first time they reach the finals. normally, it is the capittain w leads the line. that would be sidney crosby. again, the sharks are waiting and crosby moves his way to center. and the first to greet him will be the captain of the sharks, joe pavelski. >> pierre: and we'll just watch. evgeni malkin. another of the marquis names and his ex teammate, paul martin there. how hard they battle. and what a contrast, how quickly it can melt. despite the disappointment, there is this tradition that you honor. >> eddie: it was an uphill battle for the san jose sharks pretty much all series long. the penguins, the better the team for the majority of the series. martin jones gave them an opportunity to get here for a game six, but the penguins just much quicker. and the team that founs found a way for the second straight stanley cup for the pittsburgh penguins. there is phil kessel coming over and that big trade in the off season with the toronto maple leafs not being the guy, being one of the guys and had a tremendous end to the regular season and a tremendous playoff. and for the second time, doc, the pittsburgh penguins change coaches during the season, as they did in '09. they win the stanley cup. mike sullivan takes over this year. >> pierre: both goalies were impressive. we pointed out martin jones because he had to face so much more. the coaches worked their way through the line, and they are last. we will have the presentation of the conn smythe trophy momentarily. named for the long time coach, gm and president of the maple leafs. that's why there's a dominant leaf on it. 44 different players have received it, including five from the losing side. the sharks salute their fans as they depart. sidney crosby with pierre mcguire. >> pierre: thank you very much, doc. in the top of the national hockey league now, what's the view like? >> it's nice. it wasn't easy getting here, you know, especially the way things started out. the first half wasn't easy and i think everyone just stuck together, kept going and found some momentum there in march and just, you know, continued to keep it going. >> pierre: talk about those triales and tribulations, sidney. because it was not easy for this group. in december, you were not even a playoff team. >> yeah. i think we all felt like we had better, as a group and individually, as well. like i said, we just stuck together, we tried to keep fighting and, you know, slowly kind of turn things around in the second half. >> pierre: can you speak about the influence mike sullivan has had on this group. >> yeah. i think he just held everyone accountable. you know, giving different guys different opportunities, different roles. . it's up to guys to do something with it, too. you see some of the young guys coming in, and the role that they played for us. but everybody, everyone has a part in this. and, you know, it feels really good to win your last game of the season. >> pierre: tu talk about matt murray being the genter and your buddy, marc-andre fleury not playing and how hard that was for marc-andre? >> yeah. i'm sure it's not easy. he does a great job being a good teammate and everything you could expect from flower. i think all three goalies, they just stuck together. they knew that, you know, whoever was in there was doing a good job and, you know, kept that way, that means we were winning. they handled it really well. >> pierre: congratulations, sidney. have a great summer. >> thanks. appreciate it. >> pierre: doc. >> mike: the episodes in life that last so many years in memory are often measured in fleeting minutes as they happen. we've been less than ten minutes from the final horn, but these moments, these guys will remember for a lifetime. and especially when they get to hold the stanley cup for their brief moment before handing it off. steve summers wrote those words, talking about a team that was 12 for 12 in 1988 in hershey, pennsylvania. we remember them now and now the announcement of the conn smythe. >> for the presentation of the conn smythe trophy to the most valuable player of this 2016 stanley cup playoffs. >> there is no doubting the passion of hockey fans. this is as loud a building as i've ever heard. how about congratulating the penguins and the sharks on a great stanley cup final and your sharks on a terrific season. the winner of the conn smythe trophy, we have two mvps is now on the second stanley cup, it's the captain, sidney crosby. >> mike: it was evgeni malkin in 2009. it is his running mate and captain, sidney crosby, in 2016. it's a handsome trophy. but the one that draws all the attention and is the reason for all this battling and the penguins blocking 33 shots tonight, allowing only two shots in the third period, is the stanley cup. keepers of the cup since 1994 will be leading it out. >> ladies and gentlemen, the stanley cup. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> over 120 years old, it's the hardest trophy in all of sports to win. congratulations to mario lemieux, jimmy rutherford, pp. it's the kaptdan's honor to hoist the stanley cup. sidney crosby, come on back. >> mike: a picture. >> whew! as he skates this around, it is interesting to watch that, broken ankle and all, trevor daley is out there and is in his number 6 jersey and on skates. i wonder if he'll be one of the first to get it. he actually is! ♪ pascal pascal dupuis, he is loved by all penguins fan. he is the third. he played 18 games. played in both regular season games against the sharks. a high caliber human being. >> who is next? >> marc-andre fleury. and a quick handoff to chris kunitz. third time for him. second time for fleury. >> yeah! whoo! >> mike: it is documented that the first team to have everyone have a day with the cup, top to bottom through the ranks was new jersey emergency in 1995. regardless of the historical argument that evgeni malkin lifts the cup. this trophy has traveled over 100,000 miles in the last two years. because it goes to the homeland. of everyone. seven of these players are from europe. and from the united states, ten. the rest from canada. you've been watching the stanley cup finals presented by geico. coming up next, except on the west coast, it's your local news. right now over on nbcsn, our stanley cup celebration continues. it was 3-1 penguins in the game, it was 3-1 penguins in the game, 4-2 in the series. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com to get the official locker-room t-shirt and hat, worn 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