Game 2 Eastern Conference Finals

First, i would like to apologize for falling behind on the reporting of the pens, please forgive me.
So the headlines for this game was the flyers will win because they lost all if their first games only to come back and take the series...well then...


So the highlight of this game in my opinion was the fight between tyler kennedy and scoot mcgoot upshall about 4 mins into the game. Upshall is a pretty tough guy and not my first choice to brawl with, but you know, take a look kennedy. That face on him, im sure has gotten him into a few fights growing up. Stats and reputation wise, id give upshall the benefit of the doubt, but ol kennedy kind of took it too him. not that upshall is a major goon, but he can bang with the best of them. they both exchanged some pretty good shots with no clear winner, but kennedy definitely didnt embarrass himself at all. i give the win to kennedy for quality of shots and biggest balls in the fight.

Now to the game, feeding of the article as crosby as the worst player in the league or something similar, crosbo did what he does best and thats put points on the stats sheet. The flyers have been fortunate the pens pp is that hot and though its not that bad. Pens pp and crosby is down low on the near boards to the right of the screen and a pens player is down low near the crease causing problems ala kevin hatcher of the pens back in 95 ish. Sid puts the puck to the net and gets a deflection off of the d's stick short side on biron. Im a firm believer in put it on the net and see what happens. I know this isnt a new concept, but i cant stress it enough. 1-0 pens.

My memory is vague on this game, again i apologize. But i think analysis of the game rather than a play by play is better anyways.

The pens came out with some fire as did the flyers. What i was most impressed with was the pens' play didnt change even as the flyers play picked up and tied the game at the end of the second. Remember, the flyers came back in all their series to win. So to be down one game was not a big deal or even unexpected. I have a little beef with malkin though. Throughout the season he would gain the blueline, excellent, and then shovel the puck to the middle of the ice just inside the blueline and someone would pick it up on our team. well the flyers have picked up on this and late in the second period with the pens on a pp, malkin does his move and richards picks it off and smokes the flower like a cigarette/weed/tree/marijuana (your choice). It was an amazing shot though. Richards ripped that shot so quickly, fleury didnt have a chance against it. His release was lightening fast and a relatively close distance, no fancy moves. The official stats has the goal unassisted, but hellen keller has credited malkin with the assist on richards goal, hellen keller, yeah it was that obvious.

Another note, the pens never really sat back once they got the lead in the 3rd. i think that is great because it shows the confidence in the d that the o can continue to do their thing and score some more while the d holds in down like michael jackson on a 13 yr old boy.

Flyers picked up their game, but the pens one upped them again. i have a feeling this is how the rest of the playoffs is going to go. at this point, i know the pens are up 3-1 in games, but i think we can one up the west team (dallas/detroit) for the cup.