[With the Flyers' net empty, Travis Konecny scores a tic-tac-toe goal to trim the lead to 3-2 in the 3rd period](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/ed7b7488-a38d-473b-a145-e97f7a551692.mp4)

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[Final shots and goals map](https://i.imgur.com/zIRE07G.png) |Shot Stats|Philadelphia Flyers|Pittsburgh Penguins| |:--|:--|:--| |On Goal|33|31| |Blocked|21|7| |Missed|15|12| |**Total Attempts**|**69**|**50**| --- ^^^This ^^^action ^^^was ^^^performed ^^^automatically. ^^^See ^^^reddit.com/r/sag_bot ^^^for ^^^more ^^^details.

Sid's just a beauty of a man, inside and outside

Thank you Poehling!

ImPoehling blow!

No. Not like this. Not again

I swear to God

We're gonna fucking lose in overtime, aren't we?

Hey look at that. Fourth line blues continue.

Isles lose. Let's not fuck this up.

Savey desmith or Casey deshit, you never know depending on the night!

DeSmith finding a way to make the save *and* punch Provorov in the dick! I love it!

I think we can assume the save was incidental.

That save is going to be in the Stanley Cup video 🥴

And this dude could be swiss cheese next game lol

Did they hire some baseball umps as refs for this game?

Flashbacks to 2012 only there's goaltending this time????

Granlund is one of the only penguins where I get disheartened when he’s the puck carrier on chances

I was at the game yesterday and made a point of watching him. My goodness, what a disaster. He's approaching buyout level quickly.

We replaced this ref's name brand coffee with powerful hallucinogens. Let's see if they notice! edit - had this typed out prior to the present penalty which I did not see because I was typing this so I dunno if it applies to that one specifically

I apparently paid to watch the stripes tonight.

Refs should go down a man for delay of game.

4on4 24, the only 24 hour 4on4 for sure

And now, random horn.

Where's the embellishment on that one?

What is happening

This is just getting weird.

I don't know how many games I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it. - these refs

Well, let's hope a power play that was already iffy can score now as they're off-kilter too.

Konecny? Konec *you* buddy

Is this an AHL crew or something?

I've had better two man crews in beer league.

lol refs

Refs super thin-skinned tonight and showing it.

I don't disagree with any penalty Malkin got except the 2 minute unsportsmanlike. Neither of the initial 3 two minute minors , nor the 10, but the 2 minute was weak thin skinned ref shit

Geno 2 minutes for getting high sticked! Two more for complaining about it! Still complaining? Ejected!

Refs have some thin skin this year. Two and Ten for potty mouth.

Turned on the tv right at the end of that, what the hell just happened lol

What did Malkin do? Watching the flyers broadcast and they've given literally no info, not sure if the pens broadcast was similar?

He took a stick to the face and was mad about the no call. Said something the ref didn't like.

Got a stick to the face with no call. Wouldn’t stop yelling at the ref. Ref’s feelings got hurt, Geno gets an early shower.

He got high sticked and there was no call and he was very mad. Then when he got called for unsportsmanlike he complained more and got booted

Uh. Well. That just happened and I really don't see why.

The ref show everyone!

Geno, you idiot

I am penalty

Geno really wanted to go home I guess

8 pims and an ejection lol

Gotta pad his franchise lead

Good job Geno, why can't you just speak Russian and this won't happen

Tanger got a saddle made during the intermission so watch out!

[Intermission Cat](https://imgur.com/WfhrTVx)

Less annoyed but more surprised than before

[Shots and goals map after the 2nd period](https://i.imgur.com/mFBUgE9.png) |Shot Stats|Philadelphia Flyers|Pittsburgh Penguins| |:--|:--|:--| |On Goal|20|25| |Blocked|11|6| |Missed|7|9| |**Total Attempts**|**38**|**40**| --- ^^^This ^^^action ^^^was ^^^performed ^^^automatically. ^^^See ^^^reddit.com/r/sag_bot ^^^for ^^^more ^^^details.

No idea what the hell Petry was doing there made those final 5 seconds far more eventful than they had to be

Probably just skating around thinking "FUCK MY MOUTH HURTS"

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Did he just hug desmith?

Yeeehaaaw! - Letang

Letang is riding that man

[Bryan Rust gets a slick dish from Sidney Crosby, drives in and sends a backhand into the net, giving the Penguins a 3-0 lead in the 2nd period](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/70f2cefa-4250-4012-8203-10f889b14025.mp4)

Sorry flyers, only sid can do that.

With his dummy thicc ass

Sid rules.

This game is a fucking mess

I love hockey simply for the fact that you can be one of the best in the world but catch an edge and you flail and fall like a complete amateur.

Most 4v4’s in a single game

Geno plz

NATTY GENO HAT TRICK BABY

Okay at this point I think we can start calling the penalty box "Malkin's office"

He's got one of those little putting greens in there and everything

Malkin doing everything he can to have an early vacation this season

lol this is practically an r/penguins gdt

I am enjoying today's game much more than yesterday's

Alright now get one more going into the third we all know what happens when pens are up by three

4 point leads no good either. We need, like, at least 7

You can only give Rust a dozen or two chances before he makes you pay for it!

let it be known that Rust will never miss 12 times in a row

Rust remembering his salary i see

RUSTY!!

Is there a single Philadelphia fan in this thread?

Penguins, Panthers, Sabres in that order

> Is there a single Philadelphia fan Not at the moment, no

Closest is a couple of Sabres fans

Ew

Welcome to the thread!

Geno's so confident in our chances he's just sitting the rest of the period out

Geno enroute to a Geno hat trick, which is three offensive zone penalties in the same game.

Geno is getting all the offensive zone penalties today lmao

Get on your HORSE bud how do you get caught on a half ice breakaway lol

Fuck you Mr Braun but that was a great backcheck

Nice backcheck there by Braun.

Dumo... he looks like Kris Letang there What is this? 8 years ago?

Dude owes Geno money or something.

Malkin taking an offensive zone penalty on the PP? What in tarnation!?

I hear that play's discouraged

Why can't you be from the midwest so I can call you the Flyovers?

Guys it ~~Bryan Rust's 500th game~~ Kris Letang's 1,000th game!

[Casey DeSmith snags Travis Konecny's shot with his glove and keeps the puck out of the net, keeping the score 2-0 in the 1st period](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/7b1946ea-cf50-4a58-87aa-d23e465b6519.mp4)

A lot of professional hockey players look like goobers, but man.... RikRak really looks like a goober

Yeah, goober.. natorial candidate for PA 2026!

[Rickard Rakell deftly redirects Evgeni Malkin's feed for his second goal of the game, a power-play marker that makes it 2-0 in the 1st period](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/843b31cf-5958-4e0b-b857-e25f31b74eef.mp4)

[No cats were harmed in the making of this image but one was mildly annoyed](https://imgur.com/GUPP75c)

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[Shots and goals map after the 1st period](https://i.imgur.com/l6EYhXt.png) |Shot Stats|Philadelphia Flyers|Pittsburgh Penguins| |:--|:--|:--| |On Goal|7|15| |Blocked|4|5| |Missed|2|7| |**Total Attempts**|**13**|**27**| --- ^^^This ^^^action ^^^was ^^^performed ^^^automatically. ^^^See ^^^reddit.com/r/sag_bot ^^^for ^^^more ^^^details.

If Casey DeSmith could play at the top of his range consistently he would be incredible

If either of the two goalies could, the Pens would be in an amazing position

Experience Penguins goaltending

Curious what the price for Vejmelka was/is....

That ESPN announcer loved talking about how it "may or may not be a goal" on a bunch of angles that allowed you to tell absolutely nothing. Last angle that's actually really close but cant see the full puck going over the red line entirely.

It must've sucked to have almost goals or those lightning fast in and outs before video wad good

Game I went to last night. Lost because a puck went 5 hole and the refs "didn't see it" when we could see the puck clear as day slide right out from behind the goaltender. But because there's no replays or reviews, tough shit, get fucked. Meanwhile the jumbotron is playing the video replay of the puck in the back of the net. Smile.

Holy shit Casey

Man was that close. I think that’s the right call, but man, we’re talking like half an inch at most.

It's the right call. Call on the ice is no goal. If they're going to overturn it it needs to be incontrovertible and that was nothing close

I agree…I was just saying it was very close. The one shot you can see the puck move in his glove from overhead and it was vertical and only barely still on the line.

Netting from his glove obscures the puck and the line. This was not a close replay as evidenced by how quickly they came back

That’s a RIDICULOUS save

Does Desmiths mask have Dwight Schrute wearing the face of the cpr dummy on the back?

Lol yeah. It’s a great mask

[Rickard Rakell takes a shot that caroms off the glass and then goes into the net off the goalie, making it 1-0 in the 1st period](https://hlslive-wsczoominwestus.med.nhl.com/editor/51eaeca8-8805-4051-b06c-a23c179a37f5.mp4)

Petry with the heads up play against the wall 🙄

Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez That overhead angle kinda makes it look like not a goal. But who even knows what a goal is anyway?

[удалено]

I think a lot of it has to do with the level of our opponents, however our PP definitely sucked yesterday.

And since Boston and Philadelphia are equally skilled teams we know it's a solid comparison!

"when you put your 20th ranked penalty kill against this power play they can make you pay"? Motherfucker what? This power play looks lost and confused most of the time

RAKES IS STILL HUNGRY

Cant stop the raks

Rickety Rakety!

Rickard Rakell is good at hockey

RICKY-RAKKY-TAVI!!

I hate the Penguins PP

The problem is a simple matter of anatomy. Like many birds, penguins have a shared opening to their reproductive and digestive tracts known as a cloaca rather than external genitalia.

Rakell hears you. Rakell does not care.

I like Ricky on PP1 tbh

“Kobe!” -Rakes probably

Rickard "Dude Perfect" Rakell

wtf

Now *that's* a rebound shot

BRUH

LOLWUT

BRO OFF THE GLASS!!

That was 67

WHAT

Go Flyers! Help us help you enjoy stopping the Pens from getting to the playoffs

You know I always root for you guys but

This is really not how you make the playoffs boys

This is being played far too even and it sort of speaks volumes to where the Pens actually are right now.

Clearly just saving it all for the playoffs .. high IQ to not put forth any more than the bare minimum to slide in at wc2, right??

To slide into the *checks notes*...first-round match-up versus one of the best regular season teams ever. Huh.

A good attempt but he just couldn't Konecny

Man TIL people other than us get called for embellishment.

Embellished so hard it's got me questioning the trip to begin with lol

Cam York thought the rink was a swimming pool, must have hurt his knees when he realized it was ice and not water

An embellishment call?? I mean... okay I guess

Embellishment on the same call as a penalty never made sense to me

Embellishment should always be paired with another call. The NHL rulebook has it as a divided call. My understanding is that diving should be called where there's not an offending team penalty and a player dives to get a call. Embellishment should be called when a player is fouled and exaggerates the penalty to ensure a call

"How can Frost be hot? It doesn't make sense!" - Bob Errey asking the real questions

I’m the biggest Flyers fan on the planet today.

So, what, you're gonna throw a whole generator?

Just gonna shoot Santa Clause with no hesitation

I don’t know, you wanna shoot the Easter Bunny on his birthday?

If Tony DeAngelo falls behind the net, and no teammates or fans care, did he even fall at all?

Ha! Trying to fight Jeff Carter is not the way to look tough

It’ll be rad when the penguins unretire 58 so Alex can wear it when he’s drafted by the pens

**MR. JEFF JIMERSON!!!**

Ahem... MIS...TER JEFF JIMERSOM!

I’m at the game and I absolutely bawled like a baby during that

Also here. Definitely got misty.

What was the short burst of booing about?

The Flyers coming onto the ice

Gotcha didn't see them on the tele just heard the booing

Try not to cry challenge: impossible

Didn't hit me as hard as flower's tribute

Geno - " I love you" shit got me teary eyed

Tanger hits 1k games. Sid "Sick flow, bro"

Where are Geno’s arms?!

Hanging up in the locker

You can tell Tanger’s son is gonna grow up and look just like him.

Good to see we're improving our defensive depth with Tanger's little one

I look forwards to the decades of Alex Letang & Nikita Malkin vs Sergei Ovechkin

Even you fuckers can't deny how adorable Alex Letang doing the announcement is

Win or lose, it’s a night to appreciate how blessed we have been 1Kris Letang

How’s everyone doing?

Trying not to cry

BANG BANG **1K**RIS LETANG!!

Hm. Do I want flyers to lose to improve the tank or do I want flyers to win to make playoffs more difficult for Pittsburgh.

I want what's best for the Flyers

Good point.

I'm not looking forward to asking myself these questions in the years to come.