After playing every other day throughout the NHL Eastern Conference Final, the Pittsburgh Penguins will have one extra day to prepare for the Nashville Predators in the Stanley Cup Final.
After going into double overtime in their seventh game with the Ottawa Senators Thursday night, that's a good thing for head coach Mike Sullivan's defending champions.
The Penguins were pushed to the limit by an upstart Senators team that featured superb play from defenseman Erik Karlsson and goaltender Craig Anderson, as well as solid contributions from the team's role players.
Chris Kunitz was the seventh-game hero for the Penguins, scoring the opening goal of the game off a sharp feed from Conor Sheary and then knuckling the winning goal past Anderson off of a feed from Sidney Crosby.