The Flyers beat the Penguins again on the road with a 3-0 decision Monday night. They now come home with a 2-0 lead on Pittsburgh in this best-of-seven…
Owen Tippett’s incredible effort in the Penguins’ zone set up Garnet Hathaway’s shorthanded goal to make it 2-0 Flyers. PITTSBURGH — Rick Tocchet talked about the importance of the Flyers not feeling too comfortable with a series lead.
The Flyers blanked the Penguins, 3-0, at PPG Paints Arena to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven first-round matchup. Tocchet's club stunned a lot of people by winning the first two games on the road.After Martone handed the Flyers a 1-0 lead in the second period, Garnet Hathaway struck a little over four minutes later at shorthanded. Owen Tippett made a determined and skillful play to find Hathaway for the 2-0 lead.The Flyers won the opening two games of a playoff series for the first time since 2012. Ironically, they did it against the Penguins then, too. The Flyers won that first-round series in six games. Going back to Feb. 26 of the regular season and including the start to these playoffs, the Flyers have won 20 of their last 27 games. In that span, they've allowed just 2.26 goals per game. "It's a series and it's a war," Noah Cates said before the game."A little crack can go a long way, whether you see it on a team or kind of your body language and stuff like that. So you've just got to be strong mentally and physically, do all the right things and do it over and over to break them down little by little."With under seven and a half minutes to go, he stopped a redirection by Evgeni Malkin when the Flyers lost the winger backdoor. Vladar had a massive save on Samuel Girard early in the third period to keep the Flyers' lead at 2-0. The Flyers played with fire a bit in the first period when they put the Penguins on the power play three times. They weren't hurt, though, keeping the game scoreless going into intermission. Travis Sanheim did a nice job to negate one of the power plays when he put pressure on Pittsburgh up ice and drew a tripping penalty on Erik Karlsson.Penguins netminder Stuart Skinner stopped 20 of 22 shots. He denied Tippett on a penalty shot in the third period, but the Flyers got their insurance with Glendening's empty-netter.For him to be making this much of an impact already has been flat-out impressive. Travis Konecny and Christian Dvorak made strong plays to assist Martone's game-opening goal.They've quieted No. 87 so far. Crosby, of course, has been the ultimate Flyers killer. He owns 139 points in 93 career regular-season games against the Flyers. In the playoffs, he has put up 36 points in 25 career meetings with the Flyers.Andrae didn't practice Sunday. He has been considered day to day.It'll mark the Flyers' first playoff action on home ice since 2018; the 2020 postseason was forced into the bubble because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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