Tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET, the Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins take the ice at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh for Game 2 of their best-of-seven Stanley Cup Playoffs series. The game can be live streamed for free here. Columbus fans can hear all of the action on 97.1 The Fan while Pittsburgh fans can do the same on 105.9 WXDX.
Columbus looks to nod up the series before it heads back to Ohio while Pittsburgh looks to take full advantage of home-ice and jump out to a 2-0 series lead. The Penguins won Game 1 with a come-from-behind 4-3 victory.
The Penguins are favorites to win the series, but with recent struggles in the postseason --especially in net with Marc-Andre Fleury --the team is taking it one game at a time and putting the futility of past postseasons behind it.
"Never mind last year," Fleury said Friday per NHL.com. "They're a tough team. They're a team that came at us pretty hard and they got a lead and it's good we didn't panic. It's in the past, last year, and it's one game at a time, one shot at a time."
Fleury made 31 saves and let up three goals in the win in Game 2 while Sergei Bobrovsky took the loss and yielded four goals while turning aside 28 shots.
Pittsburgh native R.J. Umberger will return to the Blue Jackets lineup for Game 2.
"I grew up going to these playoff games, this was my childhood and earlier in my career I got a chance to play in Mellon Arena," Umberger said via NHL.com. "The atmosphere was great [at Consol Energy Center in Game 1] and I'm anxious and really excited to get in there."
Columbus received Game 1 goals by Jack Johnson, former Pen Mark Letestu and Derek MacKenzie while Jussi Jokinen, Beau Bennett, Matt Niskanen and Brandon Sutter found the twine for Pittsburgh.
The best-of-seven Round 1 series continues when the puck drops on the Blue Jackets and Penguins tonight at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.
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