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| Date | Player | |
| 5/22/2017 | Sidney Crosby, Pit, C | |
| Crosby had a goal in his third straight game and added an assist in Sunday's Game 5 rout of the Senators. Analysis: He's the 22nd player in NHL history to reach 100 career playoff assists. |
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| 5/22/2017 | Craig Anderson, Ott, G | |
| Anderson allowed four goals on 14 shots in 18 1/2 minutes of a 7-0 loss to the Penguins in Game 5 on Sunday. Analysis: Coach Guy Boucher said Anderson will start Game 6. |
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| 5/22/2017 | Matt Murray, Pit, G | |
| Murray made 25 saves in the 7-0 rout of Ottawa in Game 5 on Sunday. Analysis: He's stopped 49 of 51 shots while starting the last two games. |
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| 5/22/2017 | Carter Rowney, Pit, RW | |
| Rowney had three assists in Game 5 on Sunday against the Senators. Analysis: These are his first points of the playoffs. |
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| 5/22/2017 | Evgeni Malkin, Pit, C | |
| Malkin had three assists in Sunday's Game 5 rout of the Senators. Analysis: He had two points in the series heading into this contest. |
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| 5/22/2017 | Nick Bonino, Pit, C | |
| Bonino had two assists in Sunday's Game 5 rout of the Senators. Analysis: He only has five points in the postseason. |
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| 5/21/2017 | Pekka Rinne, Nsh, G | |
| Rinne made 32 saves in Saturday's 3-1 victory over the Ducks in Game 5. Analysis: He has a 1.62 goals-against average in the playoffs. |
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| 5/21/2017 | Pontus Aberg, Nsh, LW | |
| Aberg scored his first career playoff goal with 8:59 to play, and the Predators moved to the brink of their first Stanley Cup Final with a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks to take a 3-2 series lead Saturday night. Analysis: Aberg spent most of the season in the minors, and he had a part-time depth role for the Nashville Predators in these Stanley Cup playoffs until injuries thrust him into a key role in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals. |
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| 5/20/2017 | John Gibson, Anh, G | |
| Gibson sat out Monday as the Ducks were eliminated by the Predators in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. Analysis: He had stopped all 10 shots he faced in Game 5 before exiting with a lower-body injury. Gibson finished 10-6 with a 2.59 GAA in the postseason. |
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| 5/20/2017 | Rickard Rakell, Anh, C | |
| Rakell (lower-body injury) sat out Monday as the Ducks were eliminated by the Predators in Game 6 of the Western Conference finals. Analysis: Rakell had 33 goals and 18 assists in his breakthrough regular season, becoming the first player other than Corey Perry to lead the Ducks in goals since 2010. He had seven goals and six assists in 15 postseason games, including a goal in the overtime victory in Game 4 of the conference finals. |
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| 5/20/2017 | Ryan Getzlaf, Anh, C | |
| Getzlaf was fined $10,000 on Saturday for apparently using a homophobic slur during Game 4 of the Western Conference finals. Analysis: The NHL announced the fine several hours before Game 5 against the Nashville Predators. Getzlaf, the Ducks' leading scorer in the postseason, avoided a suspension. Getzlaf was captured by television cameras appearing to shout the inappropriate remark in frustration with an official after returning to Anaheim's bench during overtime. |
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| 5/20/2017 | Clarke MacArthur, Ott, LW | |
| MacArthur recorded his third goal of the playoffs in Game 4 against the Penguins on Friday. Analysis: He has eight points in the playoffs after playing just four regular-season games. |
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| 5/20/2017 | Sidney Crosby, Pit, C | |
| Crosby had a goal and an assist, Murray made 22 saves in his first start of the playoffs and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Friday night to even the Eastern Conference finals at 2-2. Analysis: Crosby had only one point as the defending champion Penguins dropped two of the first three, leading to questions about his health following a jarring concussion in the second round. |
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| 5/20/2017 | Matt Murray, Pit, G | |
| Murray made 22 saves in his first start of the playoffs and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Friday night to even the Eastern Conference finals at 2-2. Analysis: Coach Mike Sullivan turned to Murray after Marc-Andre Fleury was chased in the first period Wednesday night in the Penguins' 5-1 loss in Game 3. Murray started for the first time in more than six weeks. |
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| 5/19/2017 | Joel Ward, SJ, RW | |
| Ward underwent surgery on his right shoulder after the season and is expected to be ready for training camp in September, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson said on Friday. Analysis: Ward recorded 10 goals and 19 assists in 78 regular-season games and added one goal and three assists in six contests in a first-round playoff loss to the Oilers. |
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| 5/19/2017 | Ryan Johansen, Nsh, C | |
| The Predators issued a statement Friday saying Johansen had emergency surgery after sustaining a left thigh injury during Thursday's Game 4 of the Western Conference finals against the Ducks. The estimated recovery time is two to three months. Analysis: It's a big loss for Nashville in its quest to win the Stanley Cup as Johansen's 13 points in 14 playoff games were leading the team. |
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| 5/19/2017 | John Gibson, Anh, G | |
| Gibson made 32 saves in Thursday's 3-2 overtime win in Game 4 on Thursday. Analysis: Gibson has yielded two goals in each of the last two games after giving up three in six of the previous seven playoff games. |
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| 5/19/2017 | Pekka Rinne, Nsh, G | |
| Rinne made 34 saves in the 3-2 Game 4 loss in overtime to the Ducks on Thursday. Analysis: He has a 1.66 goals-against average in the postseason. |
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| 5/19/2017 | Rickard Rakell, Anh, C | |
| Rakell had a goal in Game 4 on Thursday. Analysis: He has a point in three straight games. |
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| 5/19/2017 | Viktor Arvidsson, Nsh, LW | |
| Arvidsson had two assists in Game 4 against the Ducks on Thursday. Analysis: He has eight for the postseason. |
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