My most memorable game: Colby Armstrong

PITTSBURGH — Player: Colby Armstrong

Date: April 11, 2007

Game: Game 1, Round 1, Stanley Cup playoffs

Site: Scotiabank Place, Ottawa

Result: Senators, 6-3

Three stars: 1. Senators RW Daniel Alfredsson. 2. Senators RW Chris Neil. 3. Senators D Anton Volchenkov

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Armstrong admits that he's a little hazy on the details.

He didn't mention that Ottawa scored the first three goals of the game, or that the Senators held a five-goal lead before Sergei Gonchar and Sidney Crosby scored during the final 7 1/2 minutes of regulation to whittle their margin of victory to three.

What he does remember -- and remember vividly -- was how the numerous young players on the Penguins' roster reacted to their initial appearance in the playoffs, which also happened to be the first for the franchise in six years.

“That was our first kick at the can of the playoffs,” he said. “For us to make the playoffs ... after the years they’d had before -- even the year before, when we were awful and couldn’t win a game -- just for our group to experience that was incredible. It was big for us, as a group, because we were so young. We had Gary Roberts there and others, but the main core of the group was so young.”

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