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Game 3's defining moment: Cooke draws penalty that leads to winning goal

By Scott Burnside

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Defining moment: Matt Cooke draws a penalty in the third period. PITTSBURGH -- In order for Sergei Gonchar to play the hero on the power play, there had to be a penalty called to set up that man-advantage situation. That situation was created thanks to the hard work of Matt Cooke, who had perhaps his strongest game in the playoffs in Tuesday's Game 3. Throughout the game, Cooke and the rest of the Pens' third line, Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy, pressured the Red Wings with a vigorous foreche ...

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