Mike welcome back to soop center where after two periods of the game six stanley cup finals, pittsburgh leads san jose, 21. The penguins last captured the stanley cup exactly seven years ago today. If this score holds, theyll take home forefourth cup in franchise history. Mike sullivan, who is he leading on in the third . Keith his veteran players and theyve 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, youre peter be deboer. Theyre down 21. 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 hes used. Hes still going to go to those veteran players. Theyre earned the right to be there. Stanley cup final playing a very good game. Youll 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 were getting ready for this building to get very loud. The pens lead the sharks, 21. If it finishes this way, well 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 maam. This isnt an automated computer. Operator maam. Im here. Im live. Wait. Youre real . Yeah. With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. S. Day or night. 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We missed woman and theres no way to restart it. jon bon jovi with directv there is. You see, weve got the power to turn back time so lets restart the show that started at nine and while were at it, lets give you back your do and give her back the guy she liked before you hey, thats the power to turn back time. vo get the ultimate allincluded bundle. Call 1800directv. whistle now go left, left, left, left. Run to old navy for activewear from 5. 00 and up to 50 off the entire store. Mike lets take a look at the coors light cold hard facts. Teams down 31 in the cup final that forced a game seven. Edmonton, carolina. The only team to come back, actually came back from 30, toronto to defeat detroit. Faceoff numbers in favor of the penguins. 6 5 , nick bonino has won 9 of 11 through two periods of play. Eddie hes just been mr. Consistent for the penguins. Originally drafted by san jose. Traded to anaheim for travis moore and ken huskin. Mike momentarily, dropped below 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, 2017. 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. Tonights backup, Marcandre Fleury made a brilliant save with 1. 5 seconds to go. Speaking of detroit, as you see marcandre on this date in 1958, at age 30, they named gordie howe captain of the red wings. Offensive zone faceoff 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 cant make a pass. Ward, able to take that one and circle back. One chaotic shift after another. A onegoal game in the balance. Oh, and the stanley cup, too, which is still packed. So far, its 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. Twoonfive 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 thats 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, hes 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 theres 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 hornqvistsheary 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. Youve 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. Its 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. Theres 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 marcedouard vlasic right before that penalty by conor sheary. When you have a team thats 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 cant hold on to it. You cant 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 faceoff. 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 its 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. Its 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. Theyre 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 faceoff win and its 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, its polak having to chase it further. Its reverse, but right over to kunitz. Kunitz by tierney. Dumps around behind but it is polak able to slug it back on and its 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 its letang again. Karlsson on the forecheck after him. Smokes him out. But its 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 theyre 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 its 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 21 game. Pittsburgh ahead, youre watching the nhl stanley cup final presented by geico. When you booked this trip, you didnt 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 didnt even know where here was. Now the only thing you dont know, is how youre 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 thats 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 youre wearing stripes, theres no option there. So crosby, in on the faceoff against tierney. Mike kessel on one side, malkin on the other. Letang and schultz. Tierney with a faceoff 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 its 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, its 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, its 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. Its played back up high off the glass. There is no penalty that will come from that. 6 22 to go, third period. 21, pittsburgh. Every day you read headlines about businesses being hacked and intellectual property being stolen. That