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  GAME DAY PREVIEW Game time: 7:00pm ET
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh
 
  Regular-season records
TEAM DIV. STANDING W L T GF GA HOME ROAD CONF LAST 10
Philadelphia 1st, Eastern Conf 45 25 12 237 179 25-9-7 20-16-5 36-18-8 8-2-0
Pittsburgh 7th, Eastern Conf 37 37 8 241 236 23-11-7 14-26-1 32-26-4 7-3-0

PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins look to take a shocking three games to none lead in their Eastern Conference Semifinal series with the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night (7 ET, ESPN) as the scene switches to Mellon Bank Arena.

CURRENT SERIES
Apr. 27
Apr. 29
May 2
May 4
May 7
May 9
May 11
Pittsburgh 2, at Philadelphia 0
Pittsburgh 4, at Philadelphia 1
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:00pm ET
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:30pm ET
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 12:00pm ET
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:00pm ET *
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Outshot again by a lopsided margin, Pittsburgh got two goals apiece from Robert Lang and Jaromir Jagr and recorded a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia on Saturday.

A win in this series would be even more improbable than the Penguins' first-round triumph over the second-seeded Washington Capitals. The Penguins had lost 16 consecutive games at Philadelphia before a 2-0 win in Game 1 on Thursday.

"I don't think anyone would have believed it if they had told us that beforehand," Penguins right wing Rob Brown said. "But we knew if we got great goaltending combined with the likes of a (Jaromir) Jagr, we were going to score a couple of goals and get a chance to go ahead."

SEASON SERIES
Jan. 8
Jan. 23
Feb. 24
Mar. 26
Apr. 1
at Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 4, at Pittsburgh 4
at Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3
at Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 1
Philadelphia 3, at Pittsburgh 2

The great goaltending has come from Ron Tugnutt, a trading deadline acquisition from Ottawa for netminder Tom Barrasso. Pittsburgh was outshot in the opener, 28-14, and the Flyers had a 45-25 advantage in Game Two, but Tugnutt again stopped nearly everything thrown at him.

Jagr, who wants to duplicate Penguins legend and current owner Mario Lemieux's feat of bringing the Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh, leads all playoff scorers with 13 points in seven games.

The final minutes of Game Two featured numerous skirmishes as the Flyers tried to send a message before the series shifted to Western Pennsylvania. Rick Tocchet, Luke Richardson and Craig Berube of Philadelphia all drew game misconducts.

Winning in the second round has usually not been as easy for the Penguins, whose last trip to the conference finals came in 1996.

Pittsburgh has killed all 10 power plays against a Philadelphia team that was second in the league during the season with the man advantage and 9-for-28 in the first round against Buffalo.

The Flyers are 1-10 in playoff series after losing the first two games. The only time they have won after dropping the initial contests was the 1977 Stanley Cup quarterfinals against Toronto.
PHILADELPHIAPITTSBURGH
CONFERENCE QUARTERFINALS
Apr. 9
@ NY Rangers
W 4-1
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
Apr. 13
Apr. 14
Apr. 16
Apr. 18
Apr. 20
Buffalo
Buffalo
@ Buffalo
@ Buffalo
Buffalo
W 3-2
W 2-1
W 2-0
L 2-3
W 5-2
CONFERENCE QUARTERFINALS
Apr. 9
@ Boston
L 1-3
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS
Apr. 13
Apr. 15
Apr. 17
Apr. 19
Apr. 21
@ Washington
Washington
Washington
@ Washington
@ Washington
W 7-0
W 2-1
W 4-3
L 2-3
W 2-1


 


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