May 30, 2001

April 11 — Goaltender Jean- Francois Labbe stops 56 of 57 shots and Chris Nielsen scores 6:52 into sudden-death overtime to give Syracuse a 2-1 victory.

April 13 — Defenseman Chris Kelleher scores a goal and four assists as the Penguins notch a 5-2 victory.

April 14 — Alexandre Mathieu’s second goal at 17:03 of sudden- death gives the Penguins a 5-4 win.

April 16 — Radim Bicanek scores a pair of power-play goals and Labbe stops 40 shots to keep the Crunch alive, 3-2.

April 18 — Michal Rozsival, Trent Cull and Milan Kraft score in the opening 14 minutes and the Penguins roll to a 6-2 win to clinch the best-of-5 series, 3-2.

April 23 — Tom Kostopoulos scores twice to lead the Penguins, 4-2.

April 25 — Goalie Rich Parent stops all 25 shots he faces to back the Penguins to a 3-0 victory and a commanding 3-0 series lead.

April 27 — Mark Greig nets three goals and two assists to keep the Phantoms alive in the series, 8- 2. Former Penguin John Slaney chips in a goal and three assists for Philadelphia.

April 28 — Michel Picard scores at 8:58 of sudden-death overtime to give the Phantoms a 3-2 victory and trim the Penguins’ lead in the series down to 3-2.

May 1 — Milan Kraft deflects Chris Kelleher’ shot past goalie Neil Little at 15:43 of overtime to give the Penguins a series-clinching 3-2 victory.

 May 5 — Billy Tibbetts’ power- play goal at 4:04 of overtime gives the Penguins a 2-1 victory over the Bears. Chris Kelleher forced over­ time by scoring the tying goal at 14:58 of the third period.

May 7 — Alexandre Mathieu scores at 15:43 of the second over­ time to give the Penguins a 2-1 vic­ tory. Rich Parent makes 37 saves.

May 9 — For the third straight game in the series, the teams head to overtime. Michal Rozsival scores at 5:02 of sudden death to give the Penguins their fourth consecutive OT win, 5-4, and a commanding 3-0 series lead. Eric Meloche’s goal with 3:02 left in regulation forces overtime.

May 12 — Goals by Eric Me­ loche, Martin Sonnenberg and Greg Crozier back the 39-save effort of Rich Parent as the Penguins com­ plete a four-game sweep of the Bears, 3-1, to capture the AHL Western Conference championship.

May 17 — Darcy Verot scores 19 seconds into the game to give the Penguins a lead they would never relinquish in a 4-3 victory. Alexandre Mathieu and Martin Son­ nenberg each post a goal and an assist, and goalie Rich Parent stops 38 shots.

May 19 — Saint John limits the Penguins to just seven shots through two periods, and Daniel Tkaczuk adds a pair of third-period goals to help the Flames notch a 4- 3 victory.

May 21 — Marty Murray and Sergei Varlamov score within a 68- second span late in the second pe­ riod to lift Saint John to a 4-1 victory. Flames goalie Martin Brochu stops 30 of 31 shots.

May 23 — The return of Milan Kraft and Andrew Ference from Pittsburgh help spark the Penguins to a 6-4 triumph. Chris Kelleher scores two power-play goals and as­ sists on Toby Petersen’s power-play game-winner with 8:19 left in the third period.

May 25 — Jason Botterill scores two goals to lead Saint John to a 4-3 win to send the series back to New Brunswick. A crowd of 8,­ 377 bids farewell to the Pens.

May 28 — Close, but no Cup. Martin Brochu stops all 18 shots he faces as the Flames blank the Penguins, 1-0, before a crowd of 6,620 at Harbour Station to claim the Calder Cup.

May 29 — Fans turn out at First Union Arena at Casey Plaza to bid farewell to their beloved Penguins.