Saturday, March 21, 2009

Game 74- Philadelphia Flyers @ Penguins

The white hot Penguins play host to their cross-state rivals Sunday afternoon at 12:30 in what will be the NBC Game of the Week, televised to a national audience. The Penguins, in only a few short weeks, have ripped off at least a point in 12 straight games to surge from out of the playoffs all the way up to a tie with these Flyers for fourth place in the Eastern Conference.

Forward Evgeni Malkin, according to CBC's Hot Stove, was fined but not suspended for this unpenalized hit on Wayne Simmonds of the Los Angeles at the end of the Pens' 4-1 victory on Friday night. Malkin's hit, in PTF's opinion, was not dirty, and there is certainly no rule against it as of now. The league is trying to send a message that headshots aren't going to be tolerated, though, and who better to use as an example than arguably the best player in the world?

Pens and Flyers fans alike know all they need to know about each others' teams as it is.

Marc-Andre Fleury will take the nets against Martin Biron.

Both teams are pretty disgusting up front.

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

Gonchar-Orpik
Eaton-Letang
Scuderi-Gill

Fleury

Flyers-
Hartnell-Carter-Briere
Gagne-Giroux-Knuble
Carcillo-Richards-Lupul
Cote-Powe-Asham

Timonen-Parent
Carle-Coburn
Alberts-Syvret

Biron

GO PENS!

1 comment:

Erika Zimmerman said...

Simmonds head was down. Geno was just going for a clean hit. flyers vs penguins = heart attack city