Pens/Flyers Game 6
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Sat, 04/25/2009 - 02:29
So far, the "In Our Opinion" series has been very hard hitting, and entertaining more than I thought it would. By entertaining, I dont mean the Malkins or Richards making great plays( notice i left out crosby), I mean the different drama that has unfolded during this playoff match up. The pure love of the pens, and especially our hero, sid the kid, or as the flyers faithful like to call him, sid the %$$ @#$%. If you dont know what that is, southerneagle can fill you in, lol
Pens still own a 3-2 game lead, with a chance still to take series in philly. but its the flyers who have owned the game play the last 3 especially. Games are still 60 minutes, and the pens need to play that long. Flyers are playing, hard, strong, smart hockey, and getting in the faces of the pens and forcing them into mistakes that they jump on.
Hard work will reward teams like the flyers, and it has, sort of. Fleury ruined the effort by the flyers in game 4, well stole gm 4 is the proper hocky term. The 3-0 win by the flyers in gm 5 was coming, and the pens rightly deserved the loss. The flyers, if not for marc andre fleury's standing on his head act in gm 4, the flyers would be trying to close this series saturday. Its gut check time for my young pens, and it doesnt get any harder than a afternoon with the warm fans of philly!!!!
Pens, please stop looking for the perfect play, skate like you have done, and let the chip fall where they may. The flyers are playing well, and home, but you can control this game, but must weather the storm the first period. SCORE first will be key, ask the flyers, they know that all too well!!! Fleury, i need another great game, but i need the pens to hit, and match the physical play, and KEEP SKATING!!!!!, it will pay off!!!! GO PENS!!! PLEASE!!!!
Scoring first wasn't key after all. Nor was scoring second... or third. Playing for 60 minutes turned out to be the key as SteelCity mentioned above yet after getting out to a 3-0 lead, the Flyers did the equivalent of taking their collective foot off of their gas pedal, allowing the Penguins to get back in this game. Right after that third goal, Maxime Talbot looked to stir things up and get his team motivated by challenging the Flyers Dan Carcillo, who wound up pummeling Talbot soundly. Oddly enough, being outplayed, outhit, outshot, and outscored, the Penguins responded to the beating handed out by Carcillo to Talbot as the Flyers eased off and acted as if having a game 7 was inevitable. Had the Flyers continued to play hockey for the duration of this game, we would be getting ready for a decisive seventh game on Monday night. Instead, they gift-wrapped the remainder of game 6 and handed it to Pittsburgh. Well done, gentlemen.