The Flyers sloppy play continued tonight against the injury depleted Penguins. With Jordan Staal, Brooks Orpik, and Zbynek Michalek all missing from the Pittsburgh arsenal the Flyers should have been able to handle them. Instead they made it way too easy for the Pens to get out of the Wells Fargo center with a win. Once again they spent most of the night on the penalty kill with 10 penalties, 8 of which resulted in power plays, and as a result could never get it going offensively. Currently they lead the league in having shorthanded a whopping 31 times. The Flyers power play struggles also continued as they went just 1 for 5, to drop to a league low 2 for 22 on the season. You could maybe overcome just having a poor power play or just taking too many penalties, but it is almost impossible to overcome both and the Orange and Black are learning that the hard way right now.
The Flyers actually had the early lead with Danny Briere scoring just the Flyer's 2nd power play goal of the season a little under 7 minutes into the 1st period. It was all Pittsburgh after that. The managed to kill off their first 6 penalties, but Pittsburgh scored twice anyway, late in the 1st period and late in the 2nd period, to take a 2-1 lead into the penultimate period. The Flyers actually went into the 3rd killing off a 4 on 3 and almost got out of it before Claude Giroux was whistled for tripping to set up a 5 on 3. On that 5 on 3 Sidney Crosby sunk the Flyers for good with 2 goals within a minute of one another for a quick 4-1 lead. Pittsburgh later added an empty netter to walk away with an easy 5-1 win.
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I completely forgot that the Flyers were even playing since the phillies were going at it so this loss isnt too bad considering I forgot about them
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okay well then at least you didn't have watch it
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