Flyers trounce Penguins 6-3, Marc-Andre Fleury can't return soon enough
by FrankD on Dec 13, 2008 5:41 PM EST
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If the Penguins have been learning lessons all season with each loss than here's another one - that's how a power play is supposed to work.
The Flyers were absolutely dominant from the drop of the puck. It looked as if the Penguins were a minor league team skating with a bunch of NHLers. Not to mention, the Pens were victimized for their own laziness early in the game with what hockey fans dub "stupid penalties."
This couldn't have been more true than the holding call Evgeni Malkin took 27 seconds into the game. For the sake of Michel Therrien and the rest of the Pens the PK unit was able to kill that one off. Unfortunately the same could not be said about the next two.
Elaborately put, the Penguins' exchange rate on a penalty favored the Flyers with a near 66% profit. Every time the Pens took a penalty, the Flyers turned it into a goal two out of three tries. If that's not a good enough incentive to NOT take penalties, than I don't know what is.
All in all the Flyers scored four of their six goals with the man advantage, further proving why they are ranked number three in the league on the power play. To make matters worse, and perhaps just for a way to really put the sting on, the Penguins only mustered up their typical one goal out of four attempts.
Someone help me out here - what is Jeff Taffe doing on the power-play unit? I understand the Pens are hurting a bit in terms of personnel, but does Jeff Taffe really have to be on the power play?
In my Jerry Springer-esque "final thought," the Penguins were just atrocious today. They definitely did not look like one cohesive unit, but instead scattered cockroaches in the final days leading up to the apocalypse. To express one more stat that only the nerdy operator of a blog would throw out there, the Penguins are officially 1-4 in matinee games this season (Sens x 3, Canucks, Flyers). Keep stats like that in mind when you are laying on a couch come playoff season answering a "doctor's" questions as to why you can't sleep at night.
The good: Well, at least Eric Godard fought, right?
The bad: The PK unit - or is Philly's PP that good? No, the PK unit...
The ugly: JasonB from BleedingGreenNation - he was in the crowd cheering on the Flyers. Jerk.
Next game: Thursday. Thrashers. 7:00. Fleury back?
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yeesh, glad I wasn’t watching, I have been particularly crotchety as of late, and seeing this would have put me over the edge. I find Pens, for a younger team, rather disciplined in regards to penalties, what happened today? I’ve been all day at the rink for son’s hockey tournament. They are at the age where when a ref calls a penalty the child is nearly in tears because they really didn’t mean to do it, some of the time the ref has to skate back around and escort the child to the box because the child has no idea that it was them being called and they don’t really even know what door to go to for the box, mostly firsts. It is heart breaking to watch and it happened several times today, bizarre. Oh, and penalty kill or PP, doesn’t look any different than their reg. play, you don’t even notice most of the time.
I was there!
As a Flyer fan… it was a great night! That said, I do have some thoughts for the Pens fans.
First, it’s amazing how much Flyer fans get on Sidney Crosby. There was not one time he touched the puck or stepped on the ice and was not booed by almost everyone. The few that didn’t boo him chanted “Sindee” at him. Everytime the organ player played, the crowd sung “Crosby sucks” to the tune of whatever organ piece was on. That must have been 20 times during the game. As a lifelong philly fan, that’s quite a sign of respect from us.
Of course, Frank D got booed by the Philly crowd last time he and I went to a game… although I don’t know if that was a show of respect.
There was an odd moment in the third period. It’s become a tradition at FLyers games where at some point the jumbotron will show this one fat guy who goes to every game and dances. The guy is at every game, he’s funny and gets the crowd all hyped up. So late in the third he shows up on the jumobtron and starts doing his thing. But the camera starts getting jerked around, like the camera guy couldn’t keep it straight. So I looked over to see where the guy was and a Pens fan is more or less going after the camera guy. Then the camera just goes dark and people can’t figure out what’s going on. So a bunch of people in the section start tussling with the guy and before you know it security is all over him. The guy starts fighting security and of course they overpower him and drag him out of the arena to the applause of the whole crowd, Flyers and Pens fans together.
There were a LOT of Pens fans in attendance and other than that one bizarre incident I thought everyone got along very well. There was a funny moment near the bathrooms where this girl walks out in a Pens jersey and a kid says to her “The Penguins suck! I just thought you should know that.”
Saying “I just thought you should know that” after your smack talk tends to make it a little less tough sounding… I had to laugh at the kid.
I was surprised at the amount of Pens fans wearing the throwback blue jerseys…
Oh and the oddest jersey sighting of the night was an old Pens’ Dennis Bonvie jersey. I believe Bonvie played for both the Pens and Flyers and didn’t do a whole lot for either club… Who would buy a Dennis Bonvie jersey?
Last time the Philly crowd booed the hell out of me was after they put me on the jumbotron in my Pens gear. So yeah, no respect there. Not one bit.
That fat guy is a jerk. He sweats when he breathes and thinks he’s the real deal. I guess the Flyers get a free jerk mascot out of it, so whatever works for them.
Last time I was in Philly I went to take a leak and got the typical, “the ladies room is next door Pens fans,” joking insult. No fights though. They know I carry a mean right cross.
And Bonvie? BONVIE? My only rationale would be to say it was actually him in the stands. He played for like six or seven teams in his career before finishing it in the Pens’ minor league affiliate. That’s honestly all I care to know about him.
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Im amazed that Dennis Bonvie jerseys were ever for sale.
Maybe it really was him! That would be the saddest thing ever by the way. If the guy goes to games wearing his own jersey…
"Hey everybody, remember me? No?" (takes off jacket to reveal Bonvie jersey) "Now do you? Still don’t…?"
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“Right before I was about to go live.”
As if he has an ear piece telling him, “You’re on.” What an arrogant jackoff. It’s unfortunate that his five minutes of fame will have to be broken up over so many games. I’d rather they just put him on the camera for five and call it a fad.
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