Gameday: Game 4. Pens at Blue Jackets

Nationwide Arena. 7 pm. ROOT. NBCSN

PIT leads 2-1

Here we are, Game 4. What we have learned so far through three games is, don't take a 3-1 lead in the game because you're gonna blow the lead. The Penguins played their best hockey of the series so far in the last 40+ minutes of Game 3 and it eventually paid off dividends on the scoreboard. Brooks Orpik goal with 1.8 seconds left in the 2nd Period of Game 3 could eventually change the way the series was going. The Penguins will try to put the chokehold on Columbus' playoff lives in what is expected to be another raucous Columbus crowd. One thing that is for certain, these teams despise each other and a rivalry between the two cities is starting to brew. What we will know at likely 9:45 pm tomorrow night is that will Pittsburgh put Columbus on their last breath or will the Jackets make this a Best of 3 from here on out.

Lines:

Kunitz - Crosby - Stempniak

Jokinen - Malkin - Neal

Glass - Sutter - Bennett

Megna - Vitale - Adams

Orpik - Martin

Maatta - Letang

Scuderi - Niskanen

Fleury

Jenner - Johansen - Skille

Calvert - Dubinsky - Atkinson

Umberger - Anisimov - Comeau

MacKenzie - Letestu - Foligno

Murray - Wisniewski

Prout - Johnson

Nikitin - Savard

Bobrovsky

Notes:

• Sidney Crosby Corsi so far in this series is 61.1% including 76.8% in Game 3. Have to think the goals are close
• The Penguins line of 36-71-18 did not allow Columbus to register a shot on goal while they were on the ice.
• Despite Marc-Andre Fleury having a high GAA and Save %, he has been the best player on the Penguins thus far this series, including basically giving them the chance to win Game 3.
• Since 2006-07, the Penguins are 4-2 in Game 4 when leading a series 2-1.

Do It.

Go Pens.