PHILADELPHIA — Jake Guentzel scored four straight goals to help send the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins into the second round with an 8-5 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 6 on Sunday. The Penguins will play the winner of the Washington-Columbus series in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Sean Couturier also had a hat trick for the Flyers, who haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1975. Guentzel, not Sidney Crosby, Phil Kessel or the injured Evgeni Malkin, won the game for the Penguins with goals off costly Flyers turnovers, leading them to their ninth straight playoff series win. But he couldn’t turn back a formidable Nashville offence that won a second straight playoff contest in Denver.

Source: National Post April 23, 2018 01:52 UTC