Game 3 Post Mortem: Flyers 5, Penguins 2
With all due respect to our faithful readers, I decided to forgo a standard recap of the Penguins’ 5-2 loss to the Flyers in Game 3, which nobody would want to read anyway, and share some loose-leaf thoughts instead.
- Mario Lemieux’s “Garage League” is alive and well and thriving in the City of Brotherly Shove;
- The officiating last night was astonishingly bad, even by NHL playoff standards. Garnet Hathaway felt compelled to twirl his stick in Sidney Crosby’s face while Sid was awaiting a faceoff (which I’ve never witnessed in all my years of watching hockey), strikes him, then has the temerity to bitch about getting a penalty. No worries, the refs knuckle under and whistle Sid for embellishment, presumably for not getting his face out of the way of Hathaway’s stick.
- As if that sorry episode wasn’t troubling enough, when Travis Konecny hits Bryan Rust with an uppercut elbow following a play around the net, then gets grounded and pounded for his trouble, he blatantly attempted to kick Rusty with his skate. Instead of receiving a five-minute match penalty and game misconduct for his gutless and dangerous act, the [expletive] draws only a minor while Rust got tagged with a double-minor by the myopic refs.
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