Pens blast Bruins 7-2 to take command of 1991 Wales Final

Back in Boston for Game 5, the Bruins opened the scoring only 40 seconds in, but the Penguins stayed poised and answered with three goals from Stevens, Lemieux and Trottier. The game became a wide-open affair and the Bruins simply had no hope of keeping up with the high-flying Penguins. 

“It takes a lot from you when they’re coming at you 100 miles per hour,” Bruin defenseman Glen Wesley told the Pittsburgh Press. “It’s tough to stop a team like that.”

Ulf Samuelsson had knocked Cam Neely off his game. Clearly frustrated, the Bruins’ main offensive threat took two retaliatory penalties away from the play, the second of which resulted in one of the Penguins’ three power play goals on the night. When the final buzzer sounded, the scoreboard read Pittsburgh 7, Boston 2. The Penguins were in complete control of the series and but one win away from advancing to their first ever Stanley Cup final.

Excerpted from The Pittsburgh Penguins: The First 25 Years by Greg Enright, available at amzn.to/3cna4N4 or http://bit.ly/2OGZeYO. https://