After a listless first two periods, the
Penguins woke up in the third. Ron Francis scored his first playoff goal as a
Pen and set up another within 2:47 to pull Pittsburgh even. They kept coming,
only to be repelled by goalie Chris Terreri on a number of quality chances.
When Randy Hillier was called for a questionable hold at 11:15, Claude Lemieux
capitalized by tipping Kirk Muller’s pass into the Penguin cage. Doug Brown
added an empty-netter to push the Pens to the brink.
Coach Bob Johnson maintained his usual
optimistic outlook, however. “You can lose three games and still win the
series. We’ve lost our three,” stated the Badger.
The players fed on their coach’s upbeat
attitude, appearing to be focused on the task of going to New Jersey and
starting to climb out of the hole they’d dug for themselves. “It doesn’t even
have to be a pretty one,” said defenseman Larry Murphy about the upcoming Game
Six. “We’ve just got to go in there and find a way.”
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