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Penguins win in Game 7 double OT to earn Stanley Cup Final berth!

Chris Kunitz scores 2 goals including the double OT winner and the Pittsburgh Penguins are BACK in the the Stanley Cup Final in 2017!

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No sense in a lot of analysis, for the 6th time in franchise history, and the 4th time in the last 10 years, the Pittsburgh Penguins are back in the Stanley Cup Final!

Chris Kunitz (goal-less in his last 22 playoff games entering tonight) scores twice including the only goal that really mattered in double overtime to push the Pens back to dance with Lord Stanley.

Genius move by Mike Sullivan to shift Kunitz and previously healthy scratched Conor Sheary up to the Sidney Crosby line and that move paid the ultimate dividend tonight. Seemingly everything Sullivan touches turns to gold as he's now 7-0 in playoff series as the bench boss with the Pens.

But a big stick tap to Craig Anderson and the Senators. Pittsburgh outplayed them for much of this series, but they hung tough. Can't get any closer. One bounce the other way and they're off to maybe the most unlikely of conference wins of recent memory (if not all time). And they deserved to be right there.

But, only one can move on and that one is the Pittsburgh Penguins. Game 1 is in the 'Burgh on Monday night against the Western Conference champion Nashville Predators.