And so we've come to this. What was supposed to be a knock-down drag-out series is looking very dangerously like a Pittsburgh sweep. Except for about ten minutes during the first period in game one and brief stretch in the second period of game two, this series has been almost all Penguins these first three games. Marian Hossa, Sidney Crosby, and Evgeni Malkin have stepped things up big for the Pens while everyone not named Mike Richards has faded into the woodwork for the short-handed Flyers.
Braydon Coburn won't be coming back tonight thanks to his ugly eye injury, but playing to avoid a sweep in front of the home crowd is always a huge incentive (just ask Dallas or New York). Gary Roberts won't be playing for the Penguins thanks to what's being called "mild pneumonia," which I had no idea existed. The Flyers are really going to have to raise their level of play from where it was in Game 3 if they want to make another trip to the western part of Pennsylvania. Can they pull it off? Follow along with our liveblog after the jump.
We're again using CoverItLive to blog this bad-boy, which means you don't have to keep clicking refresh and you can join in on the conversation or ask us questions using the box at the bottom of the blog (they have to be approved, so don't even bother with useless or abusive comments because they won't fly). Eric McErlain and maybe Bruce Ciskie will be joining me for this one, so buckle up and let's get this show on the road.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. When a team is down by 2 I think they need to get a goal to pull within one by the last TV timeout. So the Pens still have about a minute or so to reach that.
That way you have 5 plus minutes plus a minute of the goalie getting pulled to tie the game.
Posted at 9:54PM on May 15th 2008 by jkrdevil
2. For Bruce's question Versus vs. CBC broadcasting team - I'd take CBC in a heartbeat. We saw Lauren Hart, Kate Smith, a piece on Randy Jones and his dad in New Brunswick, decent replays, no interviews while the game was going on and Don Cherry.
As for Keegan's comments on Pierre McGuire, I'm a little confused because McGuire is currently at the World's calling the games for TSN.
Also, there IS hockey tomorrow (Friday):
World Championships
1:00 PM EST FIN - RUS TSN - Quebec, QC, CAN
5:00 PM EST CAN - SWE TSN - Quebec, QC, CAN
Memorial Cup (last year Milan Lucic was the star according to Mirtle):
Gatineau vs. Kitchener 7:00 PM E - Sportsnet
No NHL hockey never means no hockey.
Posted at 11:28PM on May 15th 2008 by desdemona