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Video: Brian Boyle gives Rangers an early lead

Pittsburgh Penguins v New York Rangers - Game Six

during Game Six of the Second Round of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 11, 2014 in New York City.

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It’s usually a big deal to score the first goal of any game. That’s been especially true in the second round of this postseason and with the New York Rangers and Pittsburgh Penguins; the team that managed a 1-0 lead won the first six games of his second-round series.

If that pattern holds true, then the Rangers are in good shape. Brian Boyle capped an odd-man rush with a goal to put the Rangers up 1-0, a lead they’re carrying into the first intermission:

PHT’s Joe Yerdon is on the scene. He believes that some big names for Pittsburgh failed to backcheck properly:

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