4/11/2012 Flyers v. Pens Game 1- Official Game Thread

[spiritfan]

This loss I can take... listening to all those yunzer stiller fans discuss hockey tommorrow morning is what kills me... goalies fault, coaching, refs screwed us... ugh

[thepittman]

My #2 team the preds is at least still ahead of the wangs, it isn't a total crapfest yet.

I don't even know what to say about this game, ridiculous. No team in the 2nd and 3rd, dey don't care

[TheHammer24]

Did we win a race in the final 40 minutes?

[npv708]

When you lose every meaningful game you play against a team for the same reasons every time, including game 1 of your playoff series, it doesn't bode well for the series. It's not over, but the fat lady has been told to be on call.

Well, at least its Philly, which means she won't need to book a hotel room or anything...

[topshelf]

When you lose every meaningful game you play against a team for the same reasons every time, including game 1 of your playoff series, it doesn't bode well for the series. It's not over, but the fat lady has been told to be on call.

Holy cow. Calm down, man.

[DelPen]

33-0-4 when leading after 2 :pop:

Really? That makes this worse.

[wondermoose]

I want to see the balls Bylsma in the Cup run. I love his attitude and I love his game plans, but the guy has some serious (over)trust issues with his back line players. Give the game to Crosby and Malkin, over and over, until you either lose or move on. That is what Philly is going to do with the Giroux and Briere lines. Matchups have gone to Bylsma's head and this was proof of it.

[nocera]

When you lose every meaningful game you play against a team for the same reasons every time, including game 1 of your playoff series, it doesn't bode well for the series. It's not over, but the fat lady has been told to be on call.

It ain't Oprah til it's Oprah.


Last I checked, it still takes 4 wins to take a series.

[NJ5934]

DB really needed to call a timeout when it was 3-3. Settle the guys down.

Well before that my friend. DB holds on to timeouts like he is cashing them in at the end of the night.

They roll over, like cell phone minutes. Right?

You would think

[largegarlic]

Well, that was pretty much the worst case scenario. After the 1st period, the Pens looked like the lackadaisical team that got smoked by Ottawa and the Islanders. This team reminds me a lot of the 2010 team. They just aren't committed enough to team defense to go far in the playoffs. They might still get past the Flyers, but I don't see much reason to think they are a realistic threat to win the Cup.

[AlexPKeaton]

The Pens D is the weak spot on this team. They never went out and got a Defenseman at the trade deadline when they probably should have. Philly picked up two. The difference in this game and this year is that Philly's D is better. Everything is pretty even between the teams, offense and goalie wise.

Our D hasn't been great but defense is about all 5 guys on the ice. You can't expect any defense in the league to look good when clearing attempt after clearing attempt flyer's are winning the battle along the board and keeping the puck in for the entire shift. Outside of the first period, the Pens only offensive chances were on rushes, not on sustained cycling like they were able to do during the HCMT years (and of course the cup year one year later).

[DelPen]

This loss I can take... listening to all those yunzer stiller fans discuss hockey tommorrow morning is what kills me... goalies fault, coaching, refs screwed us... ugh

I'm not sure how anyone can be ok with this loss. This was disgusting.

[pens#1]

how anyone has a positive spin after watching that amazes me

[topshelf]

When you lose every meaningful game you play against a team for the same reasons every time, including game 1 of your playoff series, it doesn't bode well for the series. It's not over, but the fat lady has been told to be on call.

Well, at least its Philly, which means she won't need to book a hotel room or anything...

Hilarious!!!!! You're amazing!!!

[eddysnake]

Never seen a team turn it off like the pens, its mind blowing at times. Never make it easy on themselves, 7 game series yens, but this was an unacceptable loss.

[nocera]

Well, that was pretty much the worst case scenario. After the 1st period, the Pens looked like the lackadaisical team that got smoked by Ottawa and the Islanders. This team reminds me a lot of the 2010 team. They just aren't committed enough to team defense to go far in the playoffs. They might still get past the Flyers, but I don't see much reason to think they are a realistic threat to win the Cup.

I've always thought that this Flyers series would be the hardest of the playoffs. Flyers are really good. All of these games will be close. It'll likely come down to special teams and tonight, the Flyers won that battle.

[mac5155]

Why is the NBC Sports NEtwork game blacked out

Mine is too on DirecTV. But, there is a NBCSN Alternate channel that isn't. Who knows...

same and same. I found it on 604.1...? never knew that existed.

[spiritfan]

any Pens 3rd period lead in this series is cause for concern

[Waffles]

It's gonna be fine guys. Chill the *pizza* out. This team is better than they showed tonight. They need to win game 2 and then win one in Philly and this game never happened. It will be tough to bounce back from, but it's far from impossible. Thankfully it's the first game.

[Malkamaniac]

Seeing people saying the series and the season is over is laughable. How do you live like that?

Pens cant hold a lead and cant beat the Flyers at home even up by 2 going into the 3rd- just sad coaching and disgusting play

So if it's over why watch?

[Froggy]

i dont think it was so much the pens stopped playing after the first, but the flyers started playing after the first. they are a good team. we need to play better, and answer back when they come at us. no lead is safe

[wondermoose]

Soff'ess game ever. Ugh, I'm so pissed.

[farnham16]

I have no problem with taking the foot off the gas offensively being up 3-0 at home. If you do that, you still have to work your butt off in the d and neutral zones. The Pens did neither. They literally gave up trying after the first period. Very disappointing.

Calm down everyone. Series isn't over. We will find out everything we need to know about this team on Friday.

[offsides]

Holy cow there is some angry people on here

Hopefully the Pens are, if not, we could be in big trouble.

[ranci]

I don't get how this team that has won the cup before does not have the killer instinct...

This is the Flyers! you have them down 3-0...you continue to go for the kill....you don't let up and get lax...

When the Pens start to regress like this, I feel they really need a good tongue lashing by their coach. But that doesn't happen. Yet, this team should have enough leadership to not need the coach to rip them like that....let's go!

This is the playoffs! this isn't November here...

a good tongue lashing from their coach???? their coach is the one that ordered a forward to stay back!!!!

my god i just cannot handle the ignorance i encounter on here