Good company - 4-23-09
For a player who failed to score a single playoff goal last season, Tyler Kennedy (above) has sure found a way to make a huge impact on this posteason. The Penguins have three wins and Kennedy has scored the deciding goal in two of them.
From a historical standpoint, Kennedy has joined a fairly exclusive group of Penguins when it comes to postseason scoring. There have been 21 instances of Penguins players scoring two or more game-winners in a single postseason and unlike Kennedy, not too many of them were toiling on the third line:
| Player, Year | Game-Winning Goals |
| Mario Lemieux, 1992 | 5 |
| Ron Francis, 1991 | 4 |
| Jaromir Jagr, 1992 | 4 |
| Jaromir Jagr, 2000 | 4 |
| Kevin Stevens, 1991 | 4 |
| Michel Briere, 1970 | 3 |
| Rob Brown, 1989 | 3 |
| Mario Lemieux, 2001 | 3 |
| Evgeni Malkin, 2008 | 3 |
| Kevin Stevens, 1992 | 3 |
| Ron Francis, 1992 | 2 |
| Marian Hossa, 2008 | 2 |
| Rick Kehoe, 1982 | 2 |
| Tyler Kennedy, 2009 | 2 |
| Mario Lemieux, 1996 | 2 |
| Ryan Malone, 2008 | 2 |
| Petr Nedved, 1996 | 2 |
| Mark Recchi, 1991 | 2 |
| Luc Robitaille, 1995 | 2 |
| Martin Straka, 2001 | 2 |
| Bryan Trottier, 1991 | 2 |
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