RECAP: Lock Up When You Leave. Pens LOSE.

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The Flyers basically own Consol Energy Center. Philly came into Pittsburgh last night and improved their record to 10-1-1 at Consol in the regular season since it opened. The Penguins played their worst game of the season and still had a chance to win. The Penguins did have a pretty amazing moment before the game as the crowd sang along to O Canada to honor our friends in Canada for what happened in Ottawa yesterday.

The Penguins opened up the scoring right after a decent power play. Nick Spaling got on the board for his first as a Penguin. The Penguins then dominated play right after that and the crowd gave them a standing ovation, which is about the only time the crowd was actually into the game. After that, the Flyers had the puck through one towards the net, there were about 9342943 bodies in front of Fleury and the puck snuck through all that and into the net. Mark Streit got credit for the goal. The Flyers kind of carried play after that and eventually someone named Pierre-Edouard Bellemore tipped in a shot from Sean Couterireier (we spell his name wrong because he's really not a good hockey player and we dont really care to spell his name right.) There wasn't much else to happen except Simon Despres hit Courtierie and he pretended he died and then he fought the Pride of Plum, RJ Umberger. Flyers lead 2-1 after 1.

The second period was kind of a dull. The Flyers pretty much dominated the period outshooting the Pens 17-6 but somehow the Penguins got the lone goal. It was credited to Dupuis but this morning they changed it to Paul Martin. The Pens played a bad period but entered the 3rd tied at 2. Chris Kunitz got called for a pretty garbage Embellishment penalty at the end of the 3rd but it's Wes Macauley so we expect nothing else.

The 3rd had a weird feeling to it. Almost 7 minutes into the 3rd, the Penguins misplayed the puck on the wall, someone (I forget who now) went to clear it up the middle, instead semi-whiffed on it, and went right to the Pride of Plum, RJ Umberger, and he sniped it short side on MAF. 3-2. A few minutes later, Malkin didn't back check, Despres turned the puck over, Scuderi whiffed on someone and Matt Read made it look easy on Fleury to make it 4-2. After that, #BeatTheTraffic happened at Consol and the game seemed like it started to die. With about 3 minutes left, the 4th line scored a semi tic-tac-toe goal and Marcel Goc scored his first as a Penguin to cut it to 4-3. Consol was louder after that goal than it was all night even though it was half empty. The Penguins came after the Flyers hard after that but Sean Couteriere scored an empty netter from center ice to seal it. 5-3 Flyers.

1. Sean Couteiriere (1 goal 2 assits)

2. RJ Umberger (1 goal 1 assist)

3. Nick Spaling (1 goal)

No worries after this one, its only game 5.

Pens play again in like 6 minutes.