''Usually you go through a span of injuries and you get through it and you kind of settle in,'' Crosby said. We went through the end of the year into the playoffs.'' The margin between the Penguins and the New York Rangers proved only lopsided in the result - a 4-1 win for the Presidents' Trophy winners in their opening-round playoff series. Yet Pittsburgh and New York played 17 periods of taut, tight hockey. Pittsburgh lurched into the postseason without defensemen Mattaa, Kris Letang, Christian Ehrhoff and winger Pascal Dupuis. More...