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Pittsburgh Sports Talk Radio Asks if Yinzers Hate the Flyers, or Just Pretend to Hate the Flyers
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Let’s check in with 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh:
Zay-gras? Is he Trevor Zegras’ cousin? Kinda makes it hard to believe you hate a guy if you can’t actually pronounce his name. I looked up this Chris Mueller dude and he has us blocked on social, so one of the Kyles must have gone after him back in the day.
I would have liked to hear more about why Poni hates Flyers fans, but they cut the clip off when it was just getting good. Oh well.
The Garnet Hathaway line I find pretty interesting. Do fans of opposing teams really hate Hathaway? Do they see him as a “fourth line jobber?” I recall the Zach Werenski knee-on-knee hit from a few years ago that led to the $5,000 fine, and the elbow on Joel Eriksson Ek, but beyond that Hathaway’s list of fines includes more embellishment than anything. He plays a high-energy game and he’s laid some big hits on guys, but not sure what the threshold is for being considered a “dirty” player or not. He can be a pest but he had the same amount of penalty minutes as Travis Konecny this season, and fewer than Trevor Zay-gras.
You would think that most of the animosity in this series is just general Philly vs. Pittsburgh fan stuff. There are only a couple of Flyers who played in that 2018 series against the Penguins, and that’s Coots and TK, who were 25 and 20 years old at the time (EDIT – actually Sanheim, too, he was 21 and a rookie). The squads are mostly new other than the veteran holdovers like Crosby, Malkin, Letang etc. The energy is going to be great but there isn’t much meaningful history with this overall group of players.
What do you think Pittsburgh sports talk radio is like, anyway? Is it Steelers all the time? Surely they don’t have to talk about the Pirates. That would be terrible for the hosts.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com