FLYERS NEWS

After about a week layoff, the Flyers finally began their Eastern Conference finals series with the cross state Pittsburh Penguins. Sadly in the ultimate battle for PA the Pens drew first blood. The Flyers simply couldn't keep up with them on this night and just didn't play very well together, hopefully game 2 will be better. Early in the first period of play Petr Sykora got things started for a 1-0 Pens lead and things just got wild from there. A couple minutes later Mike Richards scored to tie it and then scored again four minutes later to put the Orange and Black up 2-1. Sid the Kid, answered a couple minutes later to knot it at two. Finally with just seconds left in the period, Evgeni Malkin scored to put the Pens up 3-2. Early in the 2nd period of play Malkin scored again for a 4-2 Pens lead. From there the two teams finally seemed to wake up and ramped it up on defense, with big hit after another. So it stayed 4-2 Pens the rest of the way, and now the Flyers will have to shake off the rust sunday night, and get a win to avoid falling behind 2-0, although considering what happened the last time these two teams met in the playoffs that might just be right where the Flyers want them.