I KINDA LIKE HIMLightning coach Jon Coope

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Sidney Crosby’s continued dominance of the Flyers helped the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion Penguins move back into first place.Conor Sheary scored two goals Womens Connor Hellebuyck Jersey , Crosby had three assists and Pittsburgh surged into the top spot in the Metropolitan Division with a 5-2 victory over the Flyers on Wednesday night.Phil Kessel, Jamie Oleksiak and Evgeni Malkin also scored for the Penguins, who have won three straight. Pittsburgh (39-25-4, 82 points) moved one point ahead of idle Washington and three in front of third-place Philadelphia.Crosby continued to haunt the Flyers, upping his total to 91 points in 62 career games against Pittsburgh’s intrastate rival.”Everybody gets up for it,” Crosby said of the rivalry. ”It brings out the best in everybody.”Crosby’s third assist gave him 1,100 career points.”His line was dynamic,” Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said.Sheary began the game on the fourth line, but played alongside Crosby for parts of the night – and benefited greatly. Crosby assisted on both goals to help Sheary break out of a slump, as he entered without a goal in 15 straight contests.”He goes to tough areas and plays bigger than he is,” Crosby said of the 5-foot-8 Sheary.”Thrilled for Conor,” Sullivan said. ”Essentially what I told him is, `Nothing lasts forever.”’Travis Konecny and Jakub Voracek had goals for the Flyers, who lost their fourth in a row.”We didn’t play a complete game 5-on-5,” Philadelphia coach Dave Hakstol said. ”We made some mistakes.”The teams combined for six goals in an electrifying second period.Voracek netted his 15th of the season 2:07 into the period to tie it at 1. Nolan Patrick caused a turnover with strong backchecking Dmitry Kulikov Jersey , passed to Voracek and his shot from the side boards deflected off Pittsburgh’s Derick Brassard and past Tristan Jarry.Konecny put Philadelphia ahead 3:54 later when he batted the puck over Jarry’s right pad.But the Penguins scored three straight goals to take a 4-2 lead into the third.”They scored when they needed to score,” Voracek said. ”They make you pay.”Oleksiak tied it at 2 with 10:36 remaining with a slap shot that got through the screen of Crosby and Jake Guentzel and past Peter Mrazek.”He can really shoot the puck, has a bomb of a shot,” Sullivan said.Sheary gave the Penguins a 3-2 lead with his first of the night, finishing a 2-on-1 break with Crosby with 5:35 remaining in the period. Mrazek made a good pad save on Crosby’s initial shot. But the rebound went right to Sheary, who backhanded it in for his 13th of the season.Sheary’s second goal from a sharp angle with 49.3 seconds left in the period put Pittsburgh ahead by two goals. Guentzel’s shot from the high slot deflected off Flyers defenseman Brandon Manning to a wide-open Sheary to the right of the net, and Mrazek couldn’t recover in time. Crosby got a secondary assist on the goal, his third of the night.Kessel, playing in his 900th NHL game, opened the scoring with 1:25 left in the first period on the power play on assists from Malkin and Crosby. Malkin set the goal up with a perfect pass across the crease, and Kessel converted the easy finish with a forehand shot for his 28th goal.Malkin’s goal was an empty-netter with 1:41 remaining.NOTES: Philadelphia Eagles LB Mychal Kendricks helped provided on-ice commentary during the first period. … Pittsburgh improved to 3-0 against the Flyers this season. The teams wrap up their regular-season series on March 25 in Pittsburgh. … Mrazek has allowed 19 goals while losing the last four games. … Philadelphia F Wayne Simmonds returned after missing seven games due to a lower-body injury. D Andrew MacDonald also was back on the ice after sitting out Sunday’s 4-1 loss at Florida due to an upper-body injury. … Pittsburgh RW Bryan Rust (upper body) didn’t return after being checked by Robert Hagg with 11:32 left in the first period, and C Dominik Simon (lower body) didn’t play after getting hurt in the second period. Sullivan said both would be re-evaluated Thursday.UP NEXTPenguins: At Toronto on Saturday night.Flyers: At Boston on Thursday night. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Tampa Bay hasn’t played in a week, while Boston is coming off a hard-fought, seven-game playoff series.Neither the Lightning nor the less-rested Bruins expect that to mean anything when their second-round playoff series begins Saturday.A single point separated the Atlantic Division rivals in the standings after the race for the top seed in Eastern Conference came down to the final night of the regular season Youth Dustin Byfuglien Jersey , and there’s every reason to believe this best-of-seven matchup will be just as tight.”Obviously, these were the top two teams in the division, and it was a close call until the last game on who was going to finish first and second,” Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman said.”It’s going to be a tough matchup. They are great team, so are we,” the Norris Trophy finalist said. ”It’s going to come down to the small detail in the game. We have the skill and depth up front to score goals, but we have to keep the puck out of our net.”Boston won three of four meetings between the teams the regular season.The Bruins won their opening round playoff series against Toronto in seven games. Tampa Bay, led by Nikita Kucherov’s 10 points (five goals, five assists) eliminated New Jersey in five games after going 0-3-1 against the Devils.”I think you learn that the regular season means nothing,” Lightning captain Steven Stamkos said. ”We know how they play. Very competitive group, very well structured, especially that top line. … We’re expecting a very tight series against a very good hockey team.”The Bruins are bracing for a tough test, too.”It’s going to be a battle,” Bruins forward Brad Marchand said. ”They were a top team all year. They compete very hard, have a ton of skill http://www.jetsshoppro.com/authentic-jacob-trouba-jersey , and they have a lot of depth.”THEY ALL COUNTThe Lightning earned home-ice advantage for the series by finishing one point ahead of Boston in the standings. In fact, it all came down to the final night of the season, when the Bruins were playing Florida in a makeup game for a Jan. 4 game postponed by a snowstorm.The Panthers won 4-2, leaving Boston with 112 points to 113 for Tampa Bay.”We’re not going to allow one game to define us, yet we understand the meaning,” coach Bruce Cassidy said then. ”We let one get away, an opportunity lost to have home-ice advantage, and we’ll see if that haunts us down the road. I think it’s too early to tell that right now.”NOT THE FIRST TIMEThe Lightning and Bruins are facing each other in the postseason for only the second time. The other meeting was in the 2011 Eastern Conference Final, won by Boston in seven games.FALLING IN LINEIn the four playoff games the Bruins won against Toronto, the trio of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand had a combined 30 points. In the three games they lost, they were held completely scoreless.”They’re our most important line,” defenseman Torey Krug said after they tallied three goals with four assists in Game 7. ”They’re the best line in the NHL, and when they’re going it’s hard to stop.”TONGUE LASHINGMarchand will do whatever it takes to get under the skin of his opponents, and in the first round that meant skating up to Toronto forward Leo Komarov and appearing to lick his face. (In November Josh Morrissey Jersey , he appeared to kiss Komarov on the cheek.)”I thought he wanted to cuddle. I just wanted to get close to him,” Marchand explained after the playoff game. ”He keeps trying to get close to me. I don’t know if he’s got a thing for me or what. He’s cute.”Several news organizations reported this week that the NHL sent a message to Marchand to knock it off, but he said he has received no such message. ”This is false,” he tweeted in response to a Boston Globe story that picked up on the original report, from Sportsnet.I KINDA LIKE HIMLightning coach Jon Cooper was asked how he views Marchand.”To be honest, what I have seen of him, what goes on out on the ice, he’s a competitive you know what and I love that. I think some of the greatest comments you can give a player is I hate that kid but I do wish he was on my team,” Cooper said.”I was fortunate enough during the All-Star game to meet him … and off the ice to spend a little time. It actually was disappointing, I was hoping he was going to be an idiot. I was hoping I wasn’t going to like him,” Cooper added. ”But he was unreal, and it’s amazing that a guy who is that kind and nice and outgoing and friendly is the same guy who jumps on the ice. You have to respect that about him. And when that kids jumps on the ice, he comes to play.”—AP Sports Writer Jimmy Golen in Boston contributed to this report.—

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