National Hockey League Playoff Game Capsules
May 12, 2013 - 2:36 AM
Uniondale, NY (Sports Network) - Brooks Orpik's first career playoff goal was
an overtime winner, as his point drive with 7:49 played in overtime sent the
Pittsburgh Penguins to a series victory over the New York Islanders in Game 6
of this Eastern Conference quarterfinal. Tyler Kennedy set up the winner,
skating with his back to the Isles' net into the left circle, before passing
back to Orpik for a blistering one-timer that Evgeni Nabokov had no chance to
stop. Paul Martin tied the game late in regulation for the Penguins, who took
the set four games to two and will face the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators in
the second round. Pittsburgh won its first playoff series since a six-game
first-round decision against the Senators three years ago. Jarome Iginla and
Pascal Dupuis also lit the lamp to back a 35-save performance from Tomas
Vokoun, who acquitted himself well in his second straight start for an
ineffective Marc-Andre Fleury. John Tavares, Colin McDonald and Michael
Grabner tallied for the Islanders, who were bidding to take Pittsburgh to a
deciding Game 7 on Sunday. Nabokov ended with just 17 saves in the season-
ending defeat. For the eighth-seeded New Yorkers, there will be no talk of a
shocking upset as the 1993 Islanders pulled off against the stacked Penguins
roster 20 years ago.