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Second-period report: Penguins get rare shot production against Red Wings

By Pierre LeBrun

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- The Penguins are 20 minutes from forcing a winner-take-all Game 7. And they deserve to be. The Pens outshot the Wings 12-9 in the second period and are up 24-12 through 40, an unheard-of 2-1 ratio against a Detroit team that almost never gets outshot. Pittsburgh should be up more than a goal, but Chris Osgood was fantastic again, turning away a number of point-blank chances to keep it close. We got our first goal of the night 51 seconds into the middle period after Wings blueli ...

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