Just 10 games into the season the Flyers were already matched up with the arch-rival Pittsburgh Penguins for the 3rd time. After blowout loss in their last meeting it was the Flyers who came out on top in this one. Sergei Bobrovsky had 26 saves and kept Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby both scoreless, just as he had in the season opener. Claude Giroux was excellent on special teams with shorthanded and power play goals. Finally, Dan Carcillo, inserted into to the lineup give Nikolay Zherdev a breather, proved to be a key cog in the Orange and Black's efforts, with a goal late in the 2nd period. On the whole the Flyers defense and penalty kill was good enough, holding the Pens to just 26 shots on goal and killing off all 6 Pittsburgh power play opportunities. Offensively, they were solid and inefficient, with at least 1 power play goal for the 3rd straight game, and Giroux's brilliant night.
Pittsburgh actually had the lead through 1 period with Evgeni Malkin picking up the assist on a Kris Letang score midway through the 1st period. After that it was almost all Orange and Black. Early in the 2nd period Mike Richards picked up the pretty asssist, as Giroux dazzled on a shorthanded score, to knot it up at 1. With a little under 7 minutes left in the period Carcillo's deflected one in to put the Flyers up 2-1. They never trailed again. Midway through the 3rd Giroux gave the Orange and Black their only power play tally of the night for a 3-1 lead. Thanks to the brilliance of Bobrovsky, it stayed that way until Tyler Kennedy scored with 45 seconds left to cut the Flyer's lead in half to 3-2. They kept the pressure on in the final seconds but there just wasn't quite enough time left for them find the equalizer. So the Orange and Black hung on for the 3-2 win, their 2nd in a row and 3rd in the 4 games. Thanks to that semi hot streak the Flyers are now tied with the Pens for the first in the Atlantic division and sit 3rd in the Eastern conference.
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