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This has been a wildly disappointing return to the playoffs for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Not only are they down 2-0 to the Philadelphia Flyers after Monday night’s 3-0 loss, they have lost both games at home, now have to go on the road, and seem to be the team that is not ready for the […]
At one point early in his career Bobby Crosby was “all that” as a prospect. He seemed like he might be able to describe himself as “Crosby, Skills & Mash” — and he was even young. Now he plays a dual role as an A’s coach, serving as infield coach and 3B coach. The first […]
Sports fandom is not sane or rational in any possible way. If you were, it would be extremely boring and would take a whole lot of the passion away from something that means so much to a whole lot of people. But, because of that the Philadelphia Flyers winning Game 2 and leaving Pittsburgh up 2-0 in the first-round series between archrivals, is making Penguins fans go absolutely insane. Coming into the series, a whole lot of people that watch hockey and talk about hockey for their job wer...
After generating just 18 shots on goal (and only one goal before resorting from pulling their goalie in desperation time to find a second goal) in Game 1, the Pittsburgh Penguins were unable to get much of anything going as a counter to that slow start in Game 2. In fact, the opposite happened for […]
The Flyers picked up a hard-fought win last night in Pittsburgh to put themselves up 2-0 in the series and head back home with momentum to spare. And while last night still didn’t see that Penguins offense firing on all cylinders — we can again give the Flyers’ forechecking game some credit for that, for the disruptive work they put in — they were able to pick up steam pretty significantly as the game went on, and it became a real challenge for the Flyers to lock things down and maintain ...
Jordan Martinook notched the game-winning goal at 13:53 of double overtime to give the Carolina Hurricanes a 3-2 victory, and a 2-0 series lead, over the Ottawa Senators at Lenovo Center on Monday. Dan Vladar made 27 saves and rookie Porter Martone scored for the second straight game for the Philadelphia Flyers, who defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-0 in Game 2 at PPG Paints Arena to take a two-game lead over the Sidney Crosby and company. Wyatt Johnston scored t...
The Penguins are in trouble. They’re heading to Philadelphia this week down two games in their first-round series and, barring some immediate changes, could be staring down a 3-0 hole by Wednesday night. Dan Muse and the Penguins have a few changes available to them before Wednesday, including some potential personnel changes. Here’s some possibilities: […]
Monday night was a chance for the Pittsburgh Penguins to make things right after a lackluster showing in Game 1 and tie up this first round series before heading to the road for Games 3 and 4. That was not at all how Game 2 went for the Penguins as they turned in another letdown […]
*Folks, the Flyers are on their way home from Pittsburgh up 2 games to none on the Pittsburgh Penguins. They shut them out last night. This is so much fun! Are you having fun?? RECAP ! *Ahead of last night’s game we learned that the Flyers elected to bring up a couple more Black Aces for this run, however long this run may be. [ BSH ] *Despite the win there was a lot to learn from Game 1, and the Flyers really didn’t seem to learn too much but they won anyway! Wild stuff! [ BSH ] ...
With a surprise Game 1 victory, the Flyers had stolen home-ice advantage from the Penguins. Weathering the early storm behind another solid effort from Dan Vladar, Philadelphia opened up a 2-0 lead, including one of the best efforts of the season from Owen Tippett short-handed. It would end there, and Porter Martone has his second game-winning goal in his two playoff games. For just the third time in franchise history, the Flyers won the first two games on the road in a playoff series. Th...
Pregame No lineup changes for the Penguins from Game 1, including going back to Stuart Skinner as the starting goalie. The Flyers have one change from Game 1, Noah Juulsen is in and Emil Andrae is out on the blueline. First period Penalties are the story of the first period, the teams combine for eight […]
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The Philadelphia Flyers need to do it again. After an emphatic Game 1 win over the Penguins, they return to the ice to try and leave Pittsburgh with an improbable 2-0 series lead. Imagine going back to the good city up 2-0 in this series? It’s what dreams are made of. Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. How to watch/listen: 📺: NBCSP/ESPN+ 📻: 97.5 The Fanatic Pregame reading Travis Sanheim was a workhorse in Game 1. On every side of the puck, the Flyers veteran blueliner was putting in the w...
With a huge win collected in Saturday’s Game 1 in Pittsburgh — and an even bigger first blow dealt in this already spirited series — the Flyers have a chance to put the Penguins completely on the ropes before the series shifts back home to Philadelphia, if they can keep the ball rolling and replicate some of the good work they put in throughout that first matchup. That task, though, will be easier said than done. For this experienced Penguins team, this would have been a difficult lo...
Travis Sanheim played an outstanding Game 1 leading to a suffocating victory over the rival Pittsburgh Penguins. They’ve laid out the blueprint to win the series as underdogs. The question now is if the veteran defenseman and the Flyers can play a near-perfect defensive game three more times. Sidney Crosby won’t go down without swinging, as Philadelphia is all too familiar with, and it starts on the back end with their number one defenseman. Getting physical with Crosby Sanheim doesn...
The Philadelphia Flyers will need to adjust since the Pittsburgh Penguins are guaranteed to adjust their tactics for Game 2.
It would be an understatement to say that things did not go well for the Pittsburgh Penguins in their Game 1 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday night. Despite the close 3-2 final score, as well as the fact they had a prime scoring chance to potentially tie the game in the closing seconds, […]
Who: Philadelphia Flyers (1-0) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (0-1) in Game 2 of the best of seven series When: 7:00 p.m. ET How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and NBC Sports Philadelphia, national on ESPN, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: Game 3 will be on Wednesday night in Philadelphia, then the series takes an extra day’s […]
*This weekend saw the Flyers open up their first round series against the Penguins, and while a playoff situation is a whole other beast, there are some key lessons that they could take into it from the regular season series. [ BSH ] *And also, looking back further, from the last time these two teams met in the postseason. [ BSH ] *Heading into this matchup, too, all eyes are on Dan Vladar, who’s been making quite a statement throughout this season. [ PHLY ] *The Flyers have no ...
The Philadelphia Flyers went into Pittsburgh and got a 3-2 upset win over the Penguins in Game 1 on Saturday night. Philadelphia never trailed in the game, as a strong defensive effort limited the Penguins’ chances, and the Flyers were able to capitalize on a few of theirs. Let’s take a deeper look at all five goals in the Flyers’ 3-2 win using NHL.com’s EDGE Goal Visualizer. Flyers’ cycle leads to Jamie Drysdale’s opening goal The Flyers capitalized on a long shift in the ...
Heading into Game 1 of a series in which 10 of your players are playing their first career postseason game, the physical battle is not necessarily something you would expect to win. That should only be amplified when you consider that players like Denver Barkey, Matvei Michkov, and Trevor Zegras aren’t exactly players who look to set the tone with their physical play. But despite a gap in experience and even physical stature, The Flyers came out hitting anything that moved. In the first p...
The Pittsburgh Penguins played a disjointed opening game against the Flyers and ended up falling 3-2 to their instate rivals to kick off their 2026 playoff series. Where’d it all go wrong (aside from just about everything in the first 20-55 minutes?) Let’s take a look. They weren’t alone in it, but the Sam Girard […]
The Philadelphia Flyers were able to walk away from Game 1 of the first round against the Pittsburgh Penguins — the team’s first playoff game since 2020 and the first ever for so many players on this team — with a very impressive 3-2 win. But it made a larger impact than just putting them up 1-0 in the series, several players were raving about the win and how impressive some individual performances were. Denver Barkey battles the big guy Flyers winger Denver Barkey isn’t a big g...
They didn’t take the easy route, nearly coughing up a two-goal lead with just over a minute to go but in the end, the Philadelphia Flyers took Game 1 with an impressive 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins to take the series lead one game to none. Winger Porter Martone played his first playoff game, and got his first goal. To put icing on the already lovely cake thus far, it was the game-winner. Martone told ESPN’s Emily Kaplan immediately after the game he wanted to have an impact wi...
There was a fun nugget in Elliotte Friedman’s recent 32 Thoughts The Penguins are one of the league’s great stories and they are fun to watch. One scout said Anthony Mantha may be the most-watched player by other teams in Round 1 Mantha had a career-best season, exploding for 33 goals and 64 points, while […]