Of his head. Strong physically, did all his own playing, all his own back checking. Mike there were generations of fans who bought tickets to see him and playing in five different decades, there were generations of players who so admired his character and skill, they wore number nine. Representing all of hockey with great distinction for five decades, number 9. Mike at a detroit Bowling Alley in his late 20s, he met his wife. In their 56 years as a couple, four children, including another hall of famer, mark. Gordies career had two phases. First, 25 years with the red wings. Then with sons mark and marty in the wha. The epilogue was in hartford where he finished his nhl career at age 42 with his son, mark, assisting. He was something else. And i dont think there will ever be another gordie howe. Mike small town guy, an enormous shadow cast. A reason why many who werent athletes loved this sport because they shook that hand and got one of those legible auto dwrafs. And for a few seconds, got a smile and fashioned a lifetime memory. Mr. Had hockey was 88. Environmental stewardship at Whole Foods Market is really built into the foundation of the company. Whole foods market is engaged with pg e on many levels, to really reduce energy and reduce our environmental footprint. For a customer like whole foods, saving energy means helping our environment, and we can be a part of that. Helping Customers Save Energy is a very important part of what pg e does. We can pass those savings on to the environment, the business, and the community. Pg e really is an expert in saving energy, and that partnership is extremely exciting. Together, were building a better california. Liam and welcome back to the lexus intermission report. Liam mchue alongside mike m had ilbury and keith jones. Both teams talking about fast starts, strong starts. Individually, who had the most focused start . Mike for me, it was matt murray. Hes coming off a subpar performance in the last one, but makes an outstanding save on matt nieto. Then the penguins go the other way. Dumoulin draws the penalty on zubrus and its Brian Dumoulin with great patience on the power play. Finds the hole, finds the net and the penguins have the start theyre looking for, a 10 lead. Liam despite that goal against, we heard chants of jonesy. Were they for our league . Mike no, they were not. They were for martin jones who was absolutely terrific. I didnt think the first goal he gave up, but after that he was right on it. And he had to be. Crosby in tight, kessel gets a handle on it. He fires into the vicinity. Cosby gets another whack at it. Crosby and sheary with a pointblank opportunity. Kessel gets a little bad on this one. This could be 40 right now. Keith im sorry. I was sure it was me. I was into it. Liam harsh reality. Keith well give it to him. Liam game six of the stanley cup finals, had the compass is in the building. 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Ladies and gentlemen, the gordie howe rewrote the nhl record book, no statistics can quantify the number of players he inspired, the number of fans he thrilled and the wonders he performed in his legendary nhl career. Before the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins resume their quest for the same historic trophy, he won four different times, we pause to celebrate the remarkable life of the inconquerble gordie howe gordie has a special gift with people. You can tell when you meet him, within five seconds, youll be best friends with gordie. Ive played head on head against him for many years. Likely, some of the greatest games that i was ever involved in. My dad lived by example. Showed us how to lead by example. And just to watch what he could do every day and dominate. I learned a lot of things in life and in hockey from gordie. And what he did for our game and how he handled himself as a person, i was just really lucky. He was a wonderful guy. And to the greatest sport in the world, gordie howe, mr. Hockey mike wonderfully done. A 10 game. The visitors ahead. Stanley cup is here. If the penguins win, they take it home. If the sharks win, it stays boxed up for another game in pittsburgh. Staggering ahead, but able to lay it along was donskoi. Carried ahead by crosby. Crosby peels and sends one off the boards. Sheary touched it, but also braun. Three aside going after this and it peels off to just a four man as. Coming off the fifth, braun. Thornton settled down by dumoulin, the scorer of the only goal. Sheary and hornqvist. Shuffle boarded ahead by vlasic and carried off by donskoi. Dropped off now to thornton. Thornton, able to roll it in. Dumoulin able to rock it around. Stepping by the bench was burns. He couldnt come up with it. Are rust. Oneonone against paul martin and the shot is deflected high and out of play. Inside the glass, pierre. Pierre Sidney Crosby, if you want to win games like this, youre great ones have to elevate. Individualny cross beeby has been elevating from the start. He talked about the edge that hes playing with against joe thornton. How about that slick feed to conor sheary or this one, the classic martin jones never saw. Crosby, dominant with the puck, forcing martin jones into tough save opportunities. Crosby is jumping through the gym right now. Eddie conor sheary took a big hit from joe pavelski at the end of that last shift. Mike punched away by murray and chopped along. Looking for it was malkin. It came three now for couture. A doubling shot that wound wound up going away from karlsson. Jabbed ahead. It comes back to dillon. Whips it on across from polak and the shot is deflected wide. May have glanced off the pole. Wrap around. That works. And another wide from karlsson. Now dillon, across now for polak. And a shot directed into murray and hes able to hang on. Pierre and he had no idea where that puck way, eddie. Matt murray making himself big down low. Eddie a couple of opportunities coming from the back in from the san jose line. Eventually works its way back to the line and gets it to the met. Theres that opportunity for Logan Couture as that opportunity moves right to left. That was a good stop. Mike here is the hit joe pavelski put on conor sheary at the end of his last shift. That opportunity back towards martin jones. Pierre joe pavelski, big body shot to energize his team. Mike tierney back to martin. Nooifd do knifed down by ward. Wheeling with it is nieto. Stolen right away. Converging by collin and bonino. Shaken back in. Cullen after it. Hag nd will, kept alive with a pass over to schultz. Oh what a wonderful save by jones from bonino. Are you tired of martins saves yet . This might be the turn around. Thrown in by nieto. First one there is paulie and then cole. Cole defended it away. Crosby, able to pivot and hand it behind now to schultz. Hagelin, dumps it back down, just deflected it there. And it becomes an icing. Eddie nick bonino, he scored the winner in game number one. But he hasnt had a lot of goals scored against martin jones. How about that one with the right pass . How about this one in game nx number six off of nick bonino again by martin jones. Pierre you get in that situation at this level, and a little bit more time than you realize. Youve got to hold on to that puck and get elevation with it taking away the bottom of the net. Braun, a shot and the pad stop made by murray. Pavelski, tapped away. Drive and that blocked by hagelin. Pumped along by vlasic. Around by thorpton. Cole. Taken along by pavelski. Gets the pass through. Taken back along and ripped along further by donskoi. Taken by thornton. Couldnt get it in front because of the stick of murray. To the back now, braun a drive. Getting a piece of that, murray. Vlasic, a shot and its off the glass. Bounced on to hagelin. Couldnt clear. Taken by braun. Around behind, penguins out there right now, a period of long change. Back out for a shot. Gets across. Along by schultz. Gets along by vlasic. Vlasic, able to play it. Around in front. Shut off by murray and with the that, the penguins get to make a change and the crowd is standing. Pierre beautiful pass from joe thornton at the end of a long, hard shut. Sidney crosby denies an opportunity defensively. Theres karlsson letting it go and the stick of crosby never gets near the penguins goaltender. Pierre eddie, you see where san jose is start to go manufacture chances below the goal line. An excellent read and react by 87 in white. He is fully engaged in this game. Mike five shots to one, sharks. Eddie when you have a goaltender in the zone, you have to hold on to the puck a second longer and get him out of his rhythm. You have to try something different. Right now couture. Mike good save by matt murray. Hes stopping everything. If he has the presence of mind to hold on a second longer, you might give yourself an opportunity. Right now, its not working. Eddie you think about how will he played in gave time and hes continued on with a lot of these type of saves in game six. Pierre how about matt murray . Wow. Mike polak, a shot. That one drifts back. Now for burns, he tried to throw it in front. Off fehr. Fehr got that one. Rushed it back out. Reach there. Across to kuhnhackl. Z go to polak who played it along. Jammed along further by cullen. Tries to dig it out. Helped along by marleau. Coutur couture across. Back to polak. Nice. Dumped back over to burns. Burns across to kunitz. Kunitz try toes play, but crushing along was tierney. Around behind tierney again, but stepping in the way and able to play it along further and popping it back out is letang. So now matt nieto on the Boston University hands ahead. Carried back in by malkin. Dances free. Get it across. Save on a rush. Well, why not . Nieto, down by tierney. Right on goal. Thats blocked away by matt murray. Pumped around to center. Martin, able to block that one down. 4 30 have been played here in the second. Pierre four a plus chances in the had period for the penguins. Another one. What a play by evgeni malkin. Speed to the outside. Around matt nieto. Somehow he gets this puck up and over. Rust has got it. And the left arm of jones denied. In the first round, he faced a guy to whom he was back up in a championship year in los angeles. Jonathan quick. Eddie they shook hand after five games. Mike this one directed ahead. Hornqvist popped one in. That is just covered by jones. Follow your Favorite Team live with the new nhl app. Stay connected with highlights, news plays and more. Down low the official nhl app today. So it is sheary and hornqvist working with crosby. Dumoulin and letang. Braun will be one of the defensemen for the sharks and paul martin. Pierre vlasic headed across for some equipment repairs. Mike here is dumoulin. Which one is off his stick and why. Along to play, hornqvist. Off by pavelski. Played back out for thornton. Tangled up for a moment by donskoi. Tripped away by letang. On over for dumoulin. Crosbys stick has failed him. Martin trying to get. Sheary with a slot removed and outreached by thornton. Then braun. Across it comes for thornton. Flies it back into the letang corner. Its sailed around where it could be left for murray by letang. That went off the stick and sailed on back and goes down, no icing. It was a sharks stick. Eddie peter deboers marching orders to his team, he wants everything quicker. He thinks theyre being far too deliberate. Mike lets see if they do that. 5 30 played as of now in the had Second Period. Shots even at 11. Brian dumoulin, power play goal in the second. The verdict here is icing. Nick bonino will take the resulting draw from nick spaling. Dump dumped in front. Whacked at it. A nice finesse pass on the backhand by burns. These guys can do everything, cant they . It is kessel and then schultz. Knocked down by wingels. Jammed ahead. Spaling reaches there and kessel. And a logjam of five players go after it. Zubrus and hagelin. Still the battle on. Comes back to spaling, his shot. Zubrus, a shot. Away by murray. Hagelin. Lifted further into hagland. Zubrus, battling away. Around and kicked down, taken by cole. Cole, flies one. The glove down by burns. Stymied by hagelin and they must play at center. Laid right back across. Couture. Save. Score eddie what a play by brent burns. The penguins with the tired players on the ice and the quick hands of Logan Couture. Who has it . Theres burns. The puck comes out and burns just gets it over to the open area ice. And a quick developing play and the slight hesitation by couture. Pierre and peter deboer called it. I want things harder and faster. That was faster, that was harder and mow the game is tied. Couture had an unbelievable game. Two assists and five shots on goal. Hes going here again in game six. Mike his sixth point, his second goal in the series. Murray got a piece of it, but not all. Here is ward. Ward let it back. Martin with it there. Shot. Nieto, it went wide and kunitz passed. Ward at center and blasts it back in. Karlsson and burns get the assist. Hoifts it along, bounced from malkin taken by donskoi. Shouldered by rust. Played back into some traffic. And came back, then, by kunitz. Played ahead now for bryan rust. Rust, able to advance to the line. Played it to martin, but coming across, pavelski. Rust, able to pull off of that. Help from kunitz. Crosby in front. Jones got a piece of it. Tierney with it now is letang. To the outside, letang. Backhander in front. Battle for it right in front of the net. Still, they spar for it and it comes loose. Pavelski, up the boards. Kept by dumoulin. Around behind sheary. Pavelski. Sheary in the back. One around in front, popped by hornqvist, taken by crosby. Score letang its 21. Eddie what a response by the Pittsburgh Penguins. The leadership of Sidney Crosby, kris letang. The puck on a string and then crosby to letang. Partin jones, not able to move right to left. But what an effort by letang to find that soft little area and bank it in off the goaltender. Pierre he broke the coverage down because he jumped in. Crosby puts it right on the tee for him and threw martin jones. Eddie right off the blocker in between the wickets. Pierre excellent effort by conor sheary, patric hornqvist and Sidney Crosby to answer right back. Mike 1 19 between goals. Penguins, back to a onegoal lead. Now its karlsson, floating one on. Glove down by cole. Would have been a happened pass, but blocked back in by burns, so cole has it legally. Long pass directed on by hagelin, but challenged by braun. Turn over to the sharks and back in had. Lovejoy turns with it. Banged it back up the glass. 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