The Pittsburgh Penguins move on to round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and will face the winner of the Washington/Philadelphia series.

Henrik Lundqvist was pulled for the 2nd straight game after giving up 6 goals on 23 shots.

The Penguins were the better team today and for most of the series.

The Rangers now have many unanswered questions.

added 6:37pm, from Brett Cyrgalis of the New York Post,

The moment came earlier in the game than normal, and the end came earlier in the spring than normal.

But there it was, Henrik Lundqvist with his face to the ice, sprawled out as the opposition celebrated all around him, and the Rangers’ season came a screeching halt.

It was 5:21 into the second period, and Bryan Rust had just scored the first of four unanswered goals for the Penguins. Lundqvist lay there, a beaten man and the example of a severely beaten team. It was ugly, it was hard to watch, and it was the end of the 2015-16 Rangers.

Lundqvist wouldn’t come out to play the third period, wearing a hat on the bench as he watched the rest of his team’s 6-3 loss to the Penguins in Game 5 of its first-round series Saturday afternoon at CONSOL Energy Center.

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