PA Civil War??? Super Lame Versus! Anyways, Game 1

Three things, one, Versus called this series the PA Civil War. I think its gay, i like the Turnpike series...draw your own conclusions.
Two, Timonen was out with a blood clot. It one thing to bruised and not playing, but this is serious, so get well. As of now he's out for the rest of playoffs or as a pens fan says, 5 more games (Pens in 6). Hope all is well, hockey is just a a game...i cringed a little when i said "just a game".
Three, ive got major problems with Alan Robinson. This idiot said Crosby is content with being the playmaker of the team rather than the goal scorer. Furthermore, he says Crosby hasnt done enough in the playoffs and he needs to score more. First, when ol' crosbo won the scoring title, guess what, he wasnt close for goals...why!? because he is a playmaker. He's not content with it, its what he does. I would rather have a playmaker than someone who scores goals because that means someone else is scoring too. Crosby makes others around him better. He will get his goals here and there and then feed goals to everyone else on the ice. Point being, i would rather Crosby have 10 goals and 95 assists than 105 goals because that means crosby isnt carry the team and it shows depth. Mr Robinson, in your next article, please tell us about how fleury is playing poorly because he is 9-1, thanks.
Minus the fact the flyers are a great team, this is a series to look forward to for sure. I dont need to say anything more than that.
Both teams came out flying. Pens struck first from a goal by Sykora from Malone and Malkin. Malkin fed it to malone and Sykora deked biron to the backhand on the short side. Such a nice play, the funny part was malkin came to celebrate with sykora but sykora was so excited about the play and pass that he kind of avoided malkin until malone came. Flyers answered back with two goals by richards and it stayed that way until hossa picked a blind pass from biron on the far boards and threw it to crosby in the front of the net. Crosbo just had to get a stick on it and its in. The go ahead goal came from malkin and the gang as they had a final rush for the first period. Malkin got the puck coming down the the right side and took the "signature, now common though, messier one-footed wrist shot" to beat biron far side under the blocker.
Second period was another philly/pit playoff period.
Hits back and forth, everybody was throwing their bodies. The last goal of the game came from gonchar ripping a pass from the top of the defensive circle to malkin on the opposing blueline, check youtube for this goal, malkin got about 10-15 feet from the goal and took a slapshot past biron, by the way it was shorthanded. If you have ever played NHL 92-94 on Genesis, take a breakaway with al iafrate (WSH Caps) against the Senators and take a slap shot once you get between the dots and see if you score.....this is about what happened. It was comical because he didnt even make a move, nothing, just rubber at 90 mph. The rest of the game was scoreless with plenty of attempts from both sides.
The highlight of the game for me was after letang took a cross-check to the back after the whistle and malkin didnt like it. So malkin grabbed the guy, in turn darien hatcher grabbed malkin by the head and a pens guy grabbed hatcher. malkin got loose the faced washed hatcher while the other penguin was holding him. hatcher was defenseless and malkin to the liberty of a couple face jabs to hatcher. malkin got a roughing penalty, big deal. malkin's penalty was the equivilence of me walking up to mike tyson, kicking him in the balls, and tyson asking me not to do that again and would forgive me if i said i was sorry.... and tyson gives me a new 5 dollar bill with the purple ink on the back.
The pens played well, but i dont think the flyers were there 100%. I think when the flyers play 100%, the pens will match and then beat the play of the flyers. This is the eastern conference finals. The flyers are real. Im calling the pens in 6.
Im not going to analyze the pens in this game. After sundays match, ill be on top of it. Too many variables for this game. Game two is going to be big in terms of how the teams play.

Peace out gangsters.