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Stick a Fork in the Pittsburgh Penguins as Flyers Win Game 3 to Go Up 3-0 in the Series
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My god. What a game that was.
The Flyers laid the smack down on the Penguins, 5-2 in Game 3 to take a commanding 3-0 series lead. They went down 1-0 in this game, charged back with three second period goals, then allowed the Pens to nick one back to make it close in the third.
Then the Flyers struck on the Pecooooooooooooooooo power play:
Get out the brooms because this Penguins team is done. They are so old and so slow. Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang, and Erik Karlsson look like they are a combined 700 years of age. They’re getting outworked and outplayed by a younger and faster Flyers team and they’re playing right into the game the Flyers want to play. It was the huge scrum started by Travis Konecny and Bryan Rust that flipped the game and gave the Flyers all of the momentum, and while the Penguins cut the deficit to one, you had a feeling that it was pretty much over after that 2nd period barrage. It felt like one of these Phillies games, when a two-run deficit is insurmountable.
Couple of notes from this one, in no particular order:
- Two power play goals for the Fly Guys, who had a terrible PP all year long. Go figure.
- Rasmus Ristolainen made the playoffs for the first time in his career and transformed into Paul Coffey overnight. He blocked shots, threw his body around, and scored a goal that Stuart Skinner maybe should have saved, but slipped through the five hole.
- The fourth line has been so sick. Coots looks like he’s 23 years old again. Garnet Hathaway has so much jam out there. Peter Laviolette is somewhere, smiling.
- Matvei Michkov was benched with about 10 minutes remaining after taking that bad penalty that allowed the Pens to cut the deficit to one. He got whistled for a weak “embellishment” penalty earlier in the game.
- Sidney Crosby’s 1st period dive was outrageous. What a rat bastard he is!
Not much more to say right now other than that the Yinzers are absolutely cooked. They might steal game 4 and send this thing back to Yinzerville, but that’ll pretty much do it for them, and it should be the unofficial final nail in the coffin for the Crosby and Malkin era. A very nice treat for NHL fans near and far. The Flyers are doing everyone a service.
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