NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marian Hossa's overtime goal lifted the Pittsburgh Penguins to a series-clinching 3-2 victory over the visiting New York Rangers on Sunday, while the Dallas Stars needed quadruple overtime to eliminate San Jose.
Pittsburgh's 4-1 series win put them in the Eastern Conference finals for the first time in seven years, where they will face the Philadelphia Flyers, and Dallas will take on the Detroit Red Wings in the Western finals.
Hossa scored the Penguins' opener on a second-period powerplay, Sydney Crosby contributing an assist, and Evgeni Malkin's backhander put them 2-0 ahead later in the period with his sixth goal of the playoffs.
New York fought back to 2-2 with goals from Lauri Korpikoski and Nigel Dawes 1:22 apart in the third.
Hossa's game-winner came 7:10 into overtime off another assist by Crosby.
"We didn't play great in Game 4 and came back here and had a solid effort and deserved to win," Crosby told reporters.
Penguins netminder Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 20 shots for the victory. New York's Henrik Lundqvist made 37 saves.
In Dallas, Brenden Morrow's goal in the fourth period of overtime lifted the Stars to a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks that put them into the Western Conference finals.
"It's a heck of a feeling," Morrow told reporters after Dallas wrapped up the series 4-2.
The Stars' Antti Miettinen opened the scoring 4:49 into the second period before Ryane Clowe tied it for San Jose early in the third.
A tripping penalty against Brian Campbell gave Dallas a powerplay in the fourth extra session and Morrow took a pass from Stephane Robidas to score the winner.
The Stars had won the opening three contests of the best-of-seven series before San Jose battled back to take the next two. Four of the six games went to overtime.
Dallas' Marty Turco stopped 61 shots and San Jose's Evgeni Nabokov turned back 53.
(Writing by Gene Cherry in Salvo, North Carolina; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
