Penguins win Game 4 - no sweep for Flyers

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Hey sports Porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus and I'm back with

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analysis of game four of the
Pittsburgh Penguins at the

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Philadelphia Flyers.
Well, tonight the Pittsburgh

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Penguins managed to avoid the
sweep by the Philadelphia Flyers

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by winning tonight by a score of
four to two and there was

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nothing easy about it.
The Pittsburgh Penguins once

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again came out early in the
first period ready to play.

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They look like they had their
game together and they really

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just look like the old
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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And wouldn't you know it, we got
the on the power play right away

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and it took 2.
But on the second power play,

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Kablamy Carlson just kind of
slides it by Cadet Knee Crosby

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right there on the slot, buries
it.

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And they're everything good
about that for the Pittsburgh

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Penguins, everything bad about
that for the Philadelphia

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Flyers.
Because when Sid gets on the

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board, everybody in Philadelphia
hates it.

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Everybody hates it and it's just
a good sign when when Sid gets

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on the board like that.
And the other thing that I

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thought right off the bat was
Pittsburgh Penguins were just

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skating away.
Any pucks near the net, skate

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away.
Any pucks near the board, skate

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away.
Any icing, stay away.

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They really did a nice job of
keeping their cool, keeping

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focus and getting their game.
And but I have to tell you, the

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Philadelphia Flyers did not give
this game away by any stretch of

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the imagination.
You know, my friend the Grand

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Schwa Beanie says it's damn hard
to win, to sweep a series.

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And he's right.
Maybe it was just that.

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Maybe it was just that, you
know, Flyers aren't that good

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enough to sweep the the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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I think the Penguins figured
some things out.

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But you know what?
They got some luck tonight.

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When, you know, Vladar made that
mistake in the second period and

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Raquel was there to take
advantage of it.

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He just kind of froze.
Ladar just kind of froze.

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He's like, oh, crap, this guy's
on me.

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And then before, you know, it's
in the back of the net.

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It's those small little things
that make a big difference.

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You know, going up to nothing
was the first time the

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Pittsburgh Penguins had a 2
nothing lead in this whole

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series.
So, yeah, if you smoke them, if

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you got them, if you're the
Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Because once you get two goals
up, boy, the third period's

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usually not great for us.
But it was tonight.

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It was good enough.
You know, the the Fires did get

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one back there.
They got one back 21.

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Barkey made a really nice play
on a great pass by Trevor Zekris

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and you know what?
That's another guy scoring

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another goal.
I think overall, the pits the

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that made eleven players scoring
12 goals at that point.

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It's uncanny how many different
Flyers are scoring.

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I mean, nobody can get hot, so
maybe that's a good thing for

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the Penguins, but everybody is
scoring.

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I mean, Mitch Koff doesn't have
a goal, Forster doesn't have a

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goal.
It's it's kind of it's really

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kind of bizarre that the Flyers
have that many goals from that

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many players.
But hey, it's working for them.

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They got a three one series lead
at the end of the second.

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The Flyers were out shooting the
Penns still 19 to 14.

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I think that was kind of the key
for the Pittsburgh Penguins not

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having a lot of shots, but
giving goals.

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And I don't know if that was
Ladar.

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I don't know if it was just, you
know, those small things going

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well for the Penguins tonight.
It wasn't it wasn't by any

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stretch of the imagination.
Penguins dominance, nor was it,

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you know, Flyers laying down and
just being like, yeah, OK, we're

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going to lose one.
It was just a well fought battle

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and I just thought the the
bounces, I thought the, the

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Penguins were a little bit
quicker to the puck tonight and

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I, I thought that made all the
difference.

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Now that being said, when we
went out three, one, my

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goodness.
Once again, Sidney Crosby four

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on four.
OK, Sidney Crosby makes a great

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play on the board against
Connect Me, kicks it to Latang

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and what does he do?
He goes straight to the net,

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kind of screened everybody and
Latang finally buried one.

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This was by far and away Chris
Latang's best game of the

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series.
They need it because they are

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not going to go anywhere.
They may not go anywhere

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anyways, but they're not going
to even have a chance in in in

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Game 5 without Chris Latang
playing the way he did.

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I thought him and Sammy Girard
played great, played much Better

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Together.
You know, the Penguins did make

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a few changes.
I should probably should have

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talked about that right from the
start.

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They did bring in Sol Yoyov in
in Clifton was out.

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Honestly, I think he only played
7 minutes tonight and he had a

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penalty.
That change didn't cost them,

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but just a bad change there with
Shay at the boards look

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terrible.
And I think, I think Muse was

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like, OK, this was a bad idea,
let's just cut this out.

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Let's not play him much anymore.
They did have Stu was out and

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she lost was in.
I thought that was a big

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difference, a good difference
for the Penguins just because

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they're different goalie, right?
She lost moves around a little

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bit more.
He made some some great saves on

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some Shorty attempts.
My goodness, the Pittsburgh

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Penguins giving up the Shorty
attempts.

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And you know what?
The Fires couldn't bury him.

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And I thought, you know, because
she love was in there.

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I'm not sure.
Or maybe it was just because it

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was a different goalie.
You know, fires couldn't solve

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that Riddle.
But they didn't get it.

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So, and that was lucky.
Solder Bloom was also back in

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and he was kind of invisible
today, tonight too.

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So I don't really think those
small changes in the lineup made

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a difference except for, I
think, you know, Vladar was.

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Let's just say Vladar wasn't
playing at 100% because I don't

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think he was.
You'd lose that focus a little

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bit when maybe your right hands
a little sore.

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I don't know if it was his right
or left hand, but I think that's

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to me, that's what it looked
like tonight for the Penguins in

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the Flyers.
It just looked like the the the

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Penguins are a little bit more
focused.

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We're getting all the all the
opportunities because they were

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getting to the puck a little bit
quicker and then going up three

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one in the third.
That was a big deal.

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Connect me came right back,
though.

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Good effort by that guy.
He's a battler, he's a warrior.

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You know, he brought him the 32.
Honestly, I wasn't too, I wasn't

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too afraid.
I don't know why, I guess I

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probably should have been at
that point as a, as a Penguins

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fan, I just felt like they had
it together and then you know,

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when they played for about 4
minutes from about I think he

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scored around 1111 minutes left
in the game, maybe 10 and some

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change and then there wasn't a
whistle for like the the next 4

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minutes.
I thought that was great for the

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Penguins just to have that back
and forth, keep the puck

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rolling, you know, keep the
lines rolling.

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They didn't get a chance to set
a play.

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They didn't get a chance to have
a face off in the Penguins end.

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I thought that was that was
really helpful for the Penguins

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and it took a lot of time off of
the clock.

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And when you're up, you know,
only by one, that makes a big

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difference because my rule of
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So, yeah.

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So the Penguins, you know, with
the 3-2 lead going into the to

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the 4th, you know, hockey Jesus
as a Pittsburgh Penguins fan

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wasn't too worried.
And you know, they get that

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empty net was everything you got
to get that empty net and they

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got it pretty quickly.
You know, that pass up the doer

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was great.
Carlson behind the net, make it

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a nice play and you know, it
just erases any chance of the

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Flyers making a a run or getting
some shots on goal to make us

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all sweat it out.
As Pittsburgh Penguins fans, I'm

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sure you missed that if you were
at the game, if you were a

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Flyers fan kind of hoping for
something to happen there at the

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end.
But it didn't tonight for the

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Philadelphia Flyers as the
Pittsburgh Penguins win 42.

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Let's go over the pluses and
minuses for both teams.

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Let's start with the Flyers.
So the Flyers once again, their

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plus is 2 more guys scored.
That makes 12 players with 13

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goals on the series.
That's just unbelievable.

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I don't know if that's some kind
of record, feels like it should

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be, but that many, that many
players scoring is very

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difficult to defend because you
don't know who's going to score

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the next goal.
And like I said, Mitch Cough and

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Forrester have not scored yet.
I don't know if that's that's

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that's good news or bad news for
the Flyers fans, but I know that

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many people scoring is an
absolute positive for the team.

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The negative, I guess for the
team tonight was letting that

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Sidney Crosby, Raquel and Russ
line get going.

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You know, Russ tends to score in
bunches and he hasn't scored

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yet.
He has scored in this series, so

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maybe they can get him going.
But yeah, I thought that was a

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that was a negative for the
Flyers and just not being able

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to be timely with goals tonight.
I thought that was the big

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negative for the Flyers, for the
Pens.

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Lots of positives to take away,
but I'm only going to name a

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few.
You know, they took advantage of

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of the flyer's mistakes.
OK, That was probably the most

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important thing.
Got to get a power play goal

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check, got that.
And getting to the puck was

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really important.
And honestly, I thought tonight

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the Pittsburgh Penguins were
able to do something they

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haven't been able to do the
whole series.

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That 113 that Philadelphia runs,
basically it's 1-2 guys in the

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in the offensive zone trying to
track down the puck and getting

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the Penguins to go up to the
left or right hand side and

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trapping them.
I thought the Penguins did a

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really good job of just slowing
it down, taking the puck, seeing

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where that first guy is and then
getting it to the other side

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real quick.
And if, if they can, they get it

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up high enough before the first
guy comes down too low and then

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they can get it to the red line
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They did a really good job with
that tonight.

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And that's going to be a big
problem for the for the

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Philadelphia Flyers, if the
Pittsburgh Penguins can sustain

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that, because that's how they've
been able to muck up that

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middle.
Now, the Penguins still didn't

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have a lot of space in the
middle, but they had enough.

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And a reason that was was
because they slowed it down

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instead of trying to race to the
red line or race to the blue

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line to get it in get it into
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I thought that was pretty smart
idea.

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Now I'm sure talk it a veteran
coach that he is, he'll make it.

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He'll make an adjustment to
that.

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Maybe he'll maybe he'll allow
one of those third guys that the

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sneak on up because if you can,
if you missed that cross ice

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pass, it's going the other way
and you got a one-on-one

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opportunity.
So look for that in Game 5.

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That's what I'm going to be
watching for in Game 5.

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The negative for the Pittsburgh
Penguins, Still no Anthony

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Mantha.
Malkin was a little bit silent

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and Chinikov, my God, right in
front of the net, he shoots the

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puck and he misses the net.
Chinikov and and Mantha

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absolutely silent tonight and
they are going to have to get

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going if the Pittsburgh Penguins
are going to want to win another

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one and really make the
Philadelphia Flyers think a

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little bit.
Now look, anything can happen.

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Just a little puckluck here or
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Flyers have worked really hard
to get 3 Series wins already, so

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they're at a big advantage
still.

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Don't you worry about that.
I promise you they're still in a

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good situation.
Will the Pittsburgh Penguins not

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win another playoff game?
Boy, seems unlikely, doesn't it?

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But it might not be unlikely.
I mean, the Fires are pretty

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good Rd. team.
So we'll see what happens at the

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Pittsburgh Penguins.
And the Philadelphia fires play

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again Monday.
So only one day off for the

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boys.
But you know, they only got to

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come West and everybody left
here from the draft.

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So they'll be plenty of hotel
rooms for you and all your

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Flyers friends, friends coming
from Philadelphia to try and see

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them stab the Pittsburgh
Penguins right in the heart and

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get Game 4 going.
Hey, that's it for me tonight.

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That's it for hockey tonight.
I hope you've been watching it.

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If you haven't.
The Senators got bounced earlier

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by Colorado.
Colorado.

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Actually, Carolina's playing
like Colorado right now.

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That series was real close.
I, you know, I know it's a four

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nothing sweep for the Senators,
but a lot of those games were

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real close.
And don't let it fool you.

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You know, it's amazing and how
A-Team can sweep another team

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and still the games can be
close.

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And Minnesota won earlier.
They tied that series up a 2.

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Two big win for Minnesota in
overtime and that was all the

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games tonight.
There'll be more tomorrow.

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Especially you Buffalo fans.
I know when you know when

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Buffalo's on.
So that's it for your hockey.

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Jesus, I hope you enjoyed the
hockey.

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Good win for the Penguins
tonight.

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We'll see you Monday night.