The Pittsburgh Penguins punched their ticket to the Stanley Cup final Thursday with a 2-1 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the deciding seventh game of their Eastern Conference playoff series. The Penguins begin the best-of-seven championship on Monday when they host the San Jose Sharks, who beat the St. Louis Blues in six games in the other NHL semi-final. It was the loudest I've heard a building in all my years in this league," said Penguins coach Mike Sullivan of the crowd of 18,600 at the Penguins' Consol Energy Center.
