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PITTSBURGH (AP) Kevin Hayes scored at 3:14 of overtime to give the New York Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference first-round series.
The Rangers lead the series 3-1 heading back to New York for Game 5 on Friday night.
In overtime, Martin St. Louis started a goalmouth scramble when he threw the puck in front on a wraparound attempt. The puck pinballed to Carl Hagelin and went across the crease for Hayes to flip it past fallen goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. The point was Hayes' first in the postseason.
New York's Derick Brassard tied it at 1 with 2:45 left in the second period with his third goal of the series. Patric Hornqvist opened the scoring at 2:22 of the first period.
Fluery and New York's Henrik Lundqvist each made 22 saves.
The Penguins are a loss away from elimination after dropping consecutive home playoff games to the NHL's best regular-season road team. The Rangers have won 12 of their last 13 on the road, allowing 15 goals.
Nine of the last 11 playoff games between the two teams have been decided by two or fewer goals, including four one-goal games in this series.
Hornqvist nearly ended it in the final minute of regulation, but Lundqvist denied him with a sliding save and Dan Girardi swept the rebound away from a gaping net.
The Penguins got the start they wanted when Hornqvist redirected Ben Lovejoy's point shot through Lundqvist's legs. They dominated the first 10 minutes, buzzing the Rangers' end and peppering Lundqvist with the first six shots. It was a stark contrast from the first three games of the series when New York outscored Pittsburgh 4-0 in the opening period and limited the sluggish Penguins to 13 shots during that span.
It took the Rangers 11:35 to register their first shot on goal Wednesday, one game after Pittsburgh needed 15:10 for its first shot of the game.
The Penguins continued to press in the second period, but couldn't pad the lead. New York, which scored the opening goal in the first three games of the series and held a 2-0 lead in two of its wins, tied it when Brassard poked at the puck until it went across the goal line. Rick Nash started the sequence with a bad-angle shot from the corner that caromed off Fleury and fell to the ice.
NOTES: Evgeni Malkin became the fifth player in Pittsburgh history to appear in 100 playoff games. Sidney Crosby played in his 99th and Fleury his 97th. Malkin has gone nine straight games without a point and 14 in a row without a goal. ... The Penguins lost four straight home playoff games to one team for the first time in team history. ... D Derrick Pouliot (upper body) sat for the Penguins and D Kevin Klein (broken arm) for the Rangers, though both are close to playing. ... F Beau Bennett, F Craig Adams, D Scott Harrington and D Christian Ehrhoff were scratched for the Penguins, while the Rangers sat D Chris Summers and C James Sheppard. ... The Rangers entered the game 1-12 in games played after taking a lead in a playoff series since 2012 and had lost four of five with a chance to take a 3-1 lead.
 

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NEW YORK (AP) The New York Rangers used Carl Hagelin's overtime goal and spectacular goaltending by Henrik Lundqvist for a 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh on Friday night to advance in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Hagelin skated out from behind the net and put a wrist shot on the short side behind Marc-Andre Fleury, who was equally as brilliant as Lundqvist. Hagelin's teammates stormed off the bench, while Fleury lay on the ice, despondent.
The Rangers, who got all four wins in the series by the same score, will play the winner of the Washington-New York Islanders series, which the Capitals lead 3-2.
New York also won Game 4 in Pittsburgh by the same score on Kevin Hayes' OT goal, on which Hagelin assisted.
Lundqvist made 37 saves in Game 5, including a nifty stop on Brandon Sutter in the extra session that was wide open, a bit sloppy, but very entertaining.
The Rangers had the NHL's best record, finishing 15 points ahead of the Penguins in winning the Presidents' Trophy. But they were pushed all series by Pittsburgh, a team they had never beaten in the playoffs until storming back from a 3-1 deficit last year in the second round.
New York's problematic power play opened the scoring. Dan Boyle's weak shot from the point fooled Fleury, who knocked it down - directly to Derek Stepan in front of him. Stepan put home a tap-in just 3:23 in.
Moments later, on Pittsburgh power play, Lundqvist made a brilliant save on Evgeni Malkin. Lundqvist also was fortunate that Nick Spaling's deflection that got through the goalie trickled wide.
Fleury was just as strong at the other end after the early goal. He stuck out his glove to thwart a deflection by J.T. Miller that was ticketed for the net.
Both goalies kept up the stinginess in the second period. Whether it was Fleury denying Derick Brassard on successive shots, then making two saves while down on the ice, or Lundqvist making outstanding stops against Paul Martin, Brian Dumoulin and Patrick Hornqvist , the session belonged to the netminders.
Until Spaling tied it on a weird goal. Sidney Crosby centered from the side of the net and the puck bounced in the air with traffic in the crease. It went in off Spaling's arm, making it 1-1.
Crosby, who drew a penalty - and the Garden fans' ire - when he flopped over behind the net while trying to work the puck loose from Dan Girardi, hit the right goal post on that power play. Crosby was loudly booed the rest of the night whenever he touched the puck.
Moments later, it was the Rangers' turn to hit iron when Miller's steal led to his shot caroming off the crossbar. Then Boyle was robbed by Fleury's pad on a backhander before missing an unguarded net off Miller's feed seconds later.
And it was on to overtime.
Notes: Rangers F Mats Zuccarello left in the first period with an undisclosed injury. He appeared woozy as he slowly skated to the bench. ... Pittsburgh was 2 for 13 on power plays in the series, the Rangers went 3 for 20.


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