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Jake Guentzel scores 4 goals, Penguins advance

By The Associated Press tween the longstanding
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jake rivals until Guentzel took
Guentzel scored four control. Crosby, Carl Hage-
straight goals to help send lin, Patric Hornqvist and Bry-
the two-time defending an Rust also scored for the
Stanley Cup champion Penguins.
Pittsburgh Penguins into the Scott Laughton and An-
second round with an 8-5 drew MacDonald scored
victory over the Philadel- for Philadelphia. The Fly-
phia Flyers in Game 6 on ers lost all three games at
Sunday. home and not even a solid
The Penguins will play the start could help them get
winner of the Washington- out of the first round for the
Columbus series in the East- first time since 2012.
ern Conference playoffs. PREDATORS 5, AVALANCHE
Washington leads that se- 0
ries 3-2. DENVER (AP) — Mattias
Sean Couturier also had a Ekhom ignited the offense
hat trick for the Flyers, who early with the first goal by
haven’t won a Stanley Cup a Nashville defenseman
since 1975. in the series, Pekka Rinne
Guentzel, not Sidney Cros- stopped 22 shots and the
by, Phil Kessel or the injured top-seeded Predators ad-
Evgeni Malkin, won the Philadelphia Flyers’ Michal Neuvirth, left, goes down to block the shot of Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jake vanced to the second
game for the Penguins with Guentzel, (59) who took a pass from Phil Kessel, rear, to score a goal during the third period in round. Austin Watson, Filip
goals off costly Flyers turn- Game 6 of an NHL first-round hockey playoff series Sunday, April 22, 2018, in Philadelphia. Forsberg, Nick Bonino and
overs, leading them to their Associated Press Viktor Arvidsson also scored
ninth straight playoff series riod off a Flyers turnover. sealed one more lopsided It was 2-2 after one period, to help the Predators move
win. He scored 30 seconds into win over the Flyers with two 4-4 after two, and nothing on to face Winnipeg. They
He tied it at 4 with 54 sec- the third for the lead off goals 10 seconds apart late was decided in the fierc- were 3-1-1 against the Jets
onds left in the second pe- another giveaway, and in the period. est game of the series be- in the regular season.q