At San Jose, California:
Sidney Crosby, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff Most Valuable Player (as shown here), assisted on goals from Kris Letang and Patric Hornqvist (empty net) while Brian Dumoulin scored a power-play goal in the first period as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on the road in game six of the Stanley Cup Final, which the Penguins won four games to two and captured their fourth Stanley Cup title, their first since 2009.
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At Pittsburgh:
Logan Couture had a hand in three goals on Thursday, scoring one and assisting on tallies by Brent Burns and Melker Karlsson (that's him being congratulated by teammates after scoring)while Martin Jones stopped 44 of 46 shots as the San Jose Sharks stayed alive in the Stanley Cup Final with a 4-2 game-five road win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The Penguins, who lead the series three games to two, can still wrap up their first title since 2009 with a game-six win in San Jose on Sunday.
USA Today photo by Donald Wright
At San Jose, California:
Ian Cole, Evgeni Malkin (power play; that's him [center] celebrating with Patric Hornqvist and Kris Letang), and Eric Fehr each scored a goal while Matt Murray saved 23 of 24 shots on Monday night as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks 3-1 on the road in game four of the Stanley Cup Final, which the Penguins, who can wrap up their fourth title (their first since 2009) with a game-five win in Pittsburgh on Thursday, now lead three games to one.
USA Today photo by Kyle Terada
At San Jose, California:
Joonas Donskoi scored the winning goal at 12:18 of overtime on Saturday as the San Jose Sharks defeated the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in game three of the Stanley Cup Final, which the Penguins still lead two games to one.
In this photo, we see Justin Braun being congratulated by teammates after scoring a first-period goal for the Sharks.
Joel Ward also scored for San Jose.
USA Today photo by John Hefti
At Pittsburgh:
Conor Sheary scored the winning goal at 2:35 of overtime on Wednesday night as the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the visiting San Jose Sharks 2-1 in game two of the Stanley Cup Final, which the Penguins now lead two games to none.
Here, we see the Penguins' Phil Kessel (#81) celebrating with teammates after scoring a second-period goal.
USA Today photo by Charles LeClaire
At Pittsburgh:
Nick Bonino scored the winning goal with 2:33 remaining in regulation on Monday as the Pittsburgh Penguins took the opening game of the Stanley Cup Final 3-2 over the visiting San Jose Sharks.
Here, we seen the Penguins' Conor Sheary celebrating after scoring a first-period goal.
USA Today photo by Donald Wright
