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Marching on: Penguins beat Isles in OT, advance to second round

Brooks Orpik's first career playoff goal was an overtime winner, as his point drive with 7:49 played in the extra session sent the Pittsburgh Penguins to a series victory over the New York Islanders in Game 6 of this Eastern Conference quarterfinal.Tyler Kennedy set up the winner, skating with his back to the Isles' net into the left circle, before passing back to Orpik for a blistering one-timer that Evgeni Nabokov had no chance to stop."I'd much rather get one there than in the regular season, when it doesn't really matter," Orpik deadpanned about his first score in 78 NHL playoff appearances. "He (Kennedy) laid it right on a tee for me. I was just trying to put it on net, and found a hole."Paul Martin tied the game late in regulation for the No. 1 seed Penguins, who took the set four games to two and will face the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators in the second round.Pittsburgh won its first playoff series since a six-game first-round decision against the Senators three years ago.Jarom...

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