GolfHos

puck drops in 20 or so.


lets go pens !  send those punks back to philthy

pens open it up early with a beautiful PP goal skated in  from malone, assisted by crosby right after the draw.

goal about 3 minutes in.

under review



no way he intentionally kicked that

goal stands @ 2:30

flower almost gives one up after a crazy bounce off the back boards comes back into his back legs
 [sm_shock]

flower with a great stop on richards after hartnell feeds him beuatifully in front of the net .

staal with some good hitting behind the flyers net.


hatcher with a long backhander almost sneaks it in
 [sm_shock]

great kick save through the screen by flower

sykora takes a rip, gets popped by richards, then takes a hit a minute later from  hatcher
 [sm_shock]

chances: 2-2 about 8 minutes in.


both teams with some bad turnovers in center ice

malkin scores a nice jammer under the pads  when biron loses his stick behind the net after confronting malone behind the net !

just past 1/2 way in to the 1st !
2-0 pens.  timeout !
 8)

flyers take a penalty for tripping the flower behind his own net .

dumbass move by hartnell

pens on the PP about 11:45 into the 1st .

malkin from a tough angle just misses a wide open net after biron caught out of position.

pens fail to score on the PP
 :sad3:

flyers with 9 blocked shots already
 [sm_shock]

laraqcue and hatcher look like they're going to go at some point soon

whiteny takes a hooking on briere behind the net with 2:18 to go in the 1st
 [sm_oops]

1st minute of the PP killed.


pens end with 4 clears in the PK.

 8) 8)

end of 1st,  2-0 pens
 8) 8)

pens survive an early PP for the flyers to start the 2nd.

8 gone in the 2nd,  still 2-0 pens.

after trading turnovers near center ice, the pens get a goal after crosby throws a nice pass from the 1/2 boards to hossa on the left dot beating biron high !

3-0 pens around 8:30 in the 2nd


malkin and umberger mixing it up a bit

"flyers suck" chant starting to carry through the arena


gill and malkin end up in the box for the pens, umberger for the flyers.

flyers on the PP.

pretty lopsided call there not catching the instigators but the retaliators

 [sm_disgust]

staal takes the faceoff , wins it , takes it right at the net, and gets dragged down to make it 4on4


great job by the youngster!

orpik beats briere down in the pens end .

fresh off the 4on4 ending and the PP expiring, malkin draws a trip on carter to put the pens on the PP @ 11:30 in the 2nd
.

just a dew seconds into the PP.... gonchar shoots point and gonchar redirects it into the net

4-0 pens @ 11:45 or so in the 2nd !

wow, they changed the goal to crosby ?

flyers get a breakaway rush for upshall and flower  STUFFS his ass.

dupuis hurt after a vicious layout in the flyers end set up the breakway.

after looking at it again that hit on dupuis was pretty damn dirty .
 [sm_disgust] :sad3:

goal re-credited to malone.

good to see dupuis back out there already .

Staal backhands in a rebound with about 1:00 to go in the 2nd

great hustel behind the net by hall, talbot,  to free up the puck and get a shot on net.


5-0 pens !
 8) 8) 8)

5 seconds to go in the 2nd,  goal is in the pens goal  waved off on ice  because thoresen ran into fleury in the crease 

period ends 5-0 pens
 8) 8) 8) [sm_devil]

Not bad for a team that at one point accumulated a Top 2 pick from the entry draft for 4 straight seasons.  [sm_devil]

that's called long term strategy
 [sm_devil]

but what do you expect them to do when they're down?  there's no big TV money, and no luxury boxes/etc   in the archaic stadium-- certainly no position to rebuild with massive free agent signing......  even though there's sellouts now and long lines for season tickets, they're not really raising rates much--yet.   pretty nice job rebuilding in the truest sense, and now reaping the rewards.  when the new stadium opens they'll have the roster to raise prices for tickets, and they'll definitely still be selling out.   the tv revenue will still stink though
 :sad3:

interesting to see too, how that process is working against philly's - rebuild in 1 year with massive signing spree  approach
 8) [sm_devil]

(that said, mad props to the flyers for going worst to 2nd in one year)

the scary thing is staal might be better than crosby as an overall player by the time he's 23 or 24.
 [sm_shock]

start of the 3rd.
comeon flower, let's finish this with a shuttie.

geno with a great steal on the 1/2 boards centers it and a flyer does a great job knocking 2 pens out of the play .

1time that talbot !
 >:(

hossa wrists one from the right boards just across the blue line, deflected in off dupuis thigh .

6-0 pens @ 4:03  in the 3rd

flower bigtime glover against prospal.

scurderi pipes one !
 :o :sad3:

down to 6:15 to play

flower with a  sick sliding  kick save on carter

pens take a dumb penalty just under 2 minutes to go

flyers PP with 1:40 to play.
cleared with 1:15 to go.

flyers push.

flower glover with 1:03 to go

faceoff won by pens and cleared.



flyers push with 45 seconds to go.

diving clear with 30 to go by talbot

flyers clear blue line with 20 to go.

have a nice give and go,  gill steps in and pokes it away


!

end of game !


6-0 pens !

"we ducked the flyers , alright! "
 [sm_beertoast] [sm_dunno] [sm_wave] [sm_fingersx]

Congrats. The better team won. If we can add another defensemen and a healthy Gagne hopefully we can avenge this next year. No complaints here. The Flyers improved a ton this year, and they did it without their most talented player. I'm glad we got blown out; no second guessing or "could of, should of" after those kinds of losses.

Good luck in the finals.

cheers!

i look forward to a pens-flyers ECF again next year



btw. lol.
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I think they'll need to throw in a free bowl of soup too.