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Video: Things keep getting worse for Rangers’ power play

Marc Staal

Pittsburgh Penguins’ Jussi Jokinen, center not shown, celebrates his goal with teammates as New York Rangers’ Marc Staal (18) kneels on the ice in the third period of game 2 of a second-round NHL playoff hockey series against the New York Rangers in Pittsburgh Sunday, May 4, 2014. The Penguins won 3-0, to tie the series at 1-1. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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The New York Rangers still have a period to straighten out their power play, but the second period of Game 3 against the Pittsburgh Penguins might leave them thinking that their man advantage is cursed.

To start things off, the spillover from a double-minor penalty from the first period ended up leaving the Rangers with nothing but a sore Jesper Fast:

Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of this postseason not very long after that power play expired:

If that wasn’t enough, after a busy but unproductive man advantage left the Rangers in an 0-for-33 power-play slump, Jussi Jokinen managed to spring right out of the penalty box and score a 2-0 goal that had to really hurt:

Maybe luck just isn’t on the Rangers’ side on Monday. Mats Zuccarello nearly scored a goal but it was not to be and they find themselves down 2-0 despite a 26-14 shot advantage through two periods.

Marc-Andre Fleury has been on top of his game for at least five periods now:

We’ll see if the Blueshirts get enough bounces to change things up in the third period, though.

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