Thursday, April 16, 2009

Round 1, Game 2- Philadelphia Flyers @ Penguins

The Philadelphia Flyers face a must-win situation Friday night when they return to the Mellon Arena for Game 2 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals. Late in Game 1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Flyers gooned up a game they had already lost, and relatively useless winger Danny Carcillo managed to get himself suspended for butt-ending Max Talbot in the face.

The Flyers' explosive offense was badly outshined by the Penguins' in the inagural game. Undoubtedly, they'll be taking at least some sort of a new approach for Game 2.

Philly blueliner Kimmo Timonen did not practice Thursday after apparently injuring his knee on a hit by Chris Kunitz just seconds after the opening puck-drop in Game 1.

Marc-Andre Fleury will need to be good again for the Pens, and it would be nice if Marty Biron could continue to be his usual lousy self on the Philadelphia side of the coin.

Penguins-
Kunitz-Crosby-Guerin
Fedotenko-Malkin-Sykora
Cooke-Staal-Kennedy
Dupuis-Talbot-Adams

Orpik-Gonchar
Eaton-Letang
Gill-Scuderi

Fleury

Flyers-
Gagne-Richards-Knuble
Hartnell-Carter-Lupul
Briere-Giroux-Asham
Nodl-Powe-Ross

Timonen-Parent
Coburn-Carle
Alberts-Jones

Biron

GO PENS!

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