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• Before OT, the videoboard showed a guy dancing on the concourse and he flashed his phone and it was the Taco Bell app ordering screen.
• Overtime.
• One minute.
• Down to two minutes.
• This is intense. Both teams getting great chances.
• Penguins kill the penalty.
• Penguins to the PK with 13:19 left. Phil Tomasino for two for tripping.
• Hold UP. Ryan Graves had the secondary assist there. His first point of the season. It happened!
• GOAL: Evgeni Malkin ties it, snapped a shot from the left circle. Penguins 4, Flyers 4
• Third period is underway.
• Seeing a bizarre range of lip-reading attempts of Alex Nedeljkovic on the bench after he got yanked. Things that aren't even similar to each other but everyone's so confident they're right and I don't think anything I've seen looks like what he said. It was a split second and the camera wasn't even steady on him. But that's enough for people to make wild accusations.
• End of the second. Flyers lead, 4-3. Erik Karlsson has a pair of goals, Phil Tomasino has another. Shots are even, 22-22.
• GOAL: It's a one-goal game again. Erik Karlsson rips a shot from the right circle for his second goal of the game. Flyers 4, Penguins 3
• The player with the top speed tonight on the Penguins? Boko Imama, at 21.35 miles per hour. Sidney Crosby is just behind at 21.16. Not the first time Imama has been up there in a game on this list.
• Sidney Crosby hit the post.
• Boko Imama doesn't miss a shift after his penalty and manages to get a partial breakway on his next one. Tries to finish on his backhand but is denied.
• GOAL: Matvei Michkov on the power play. Heavy wrister from the top of the left circle. Flyers 4, Penguins 2
• They reviewed the major on Boko Imama and reduced it to a minor for interference. I imagine he'll have to answer for it when he gets out of the box.
• Oof. Garnet Hathaway is down and might be knocked out. Boko Imama interfered with him, blindsided him in the neutral zone. Those two had been going at each other for awhile. It didn't seem like Imama hit Hathaway that hard but he went down hard. Imama gets a major out of it. Hathaway is eventually able to get up and skate off with assistance. A lot of assistance. Practically dragged him off.
• GOAL: And another quick one. Erik Karlsson with a shot from the blue line. Flyers 3, Penguins 2
• GOAL: Phil Tomasino gets the Penguins on the board, roofing a backhand shot over Samuel Ersson's blocker side. Sick hands. Flyers 3, Penguins 1
• That'll end Alex Nedeljkovic's night, and he's heated. Broke his stick over the pipe and chucked it across the ice, then slammed the bench door hard as he got to the bench and appeared to be yelling at Mike Sullivan. Joel Blomqvist comes in.
• GOAL: That one will count. Rasmus Ristolainen banks one off the end boards, Matvei Michkov picks it up and puts it into the open net. Net was open after Alex Nedeljkovic slid forward and to the side going for the initial shot. Flyers 3, Penguins 0
• Officials look at that redirect on video, still no goal.
• Flyers think they scored off an Andrei Kuzmenko redirect but it's immediately waived off for a high stick. Officials all confer and come to the same conclusion.
• Boko Imama looks like he wants to go with Garnet Hathaway. Both yapping at each other.
• GOAL: Flyers double the lead. Owen Tippett's shot from back by the blue line hits Ryan Shea and deflects in. Flyers 2, Penguins 0
• Second period is underway.
• The Penguins outhit the Flyers 16-7 in the first. That's what happens when you don't have the puck for most of it.
• End of the first period. Flyers lead 1-0 after Noah Cates' goal on their first shot. Shots are 8-6 Flyers.
• Nothing on the power play.
• Sidney Crosby takes a long-range shot and Kevin Hayes nearly puts in the rebound right at the net-front, but Samuel Ersson gets a pad on it.
• Penguins get a power play with 4:32 left in the first. Cam York gets two for high-sticking Bryan Rust.
• They took away the Phil Tomasino shot for some reason, maybe it was going wide. Kris Letang gets the new first shot 14:40 in. Danton Heinen gets their second shot seconds later. Rejoice.
• Phil Tomasino gets the Penguins' first shot at the 12:32 mark of the first period and the crowd gives a big mock cheer for it.
• At the 12-minute mark here. Still no shots. Flyers have seven.
• A misplay between Cody Glass and Vincent Desharnais leads to a Flyers 2-on-1 the other way. Alex Nedeljkovic stops Travis Konecny then Scott Laughton on the follow-up, and covers the puck for a stoppage.
• They play Max Talbot's tribute video for his bobblehead night at the first TV timeout. It opens with the "Superstar Treatment" commercial clip. Big ovation from the crowd when he's shown on the videoboard with his family. He does the "Shhhh" and they get louder.
• Nine minutes in, still no shots for the Penguins. Flyers are up to five.
• This game is seven minutes old and the Flyers have the game's only four shots.
• Bryan Rust is out there again.
• The Penguins were essentially shorthanded leading up to that goal because Bryan Rust went down hard on his knee in the Flyers' end and it took him some time to get to the bench and get off. He's staying on the bench now, at least.
• GOAL: Noah Cates scores on the Flyers' first shot. I feel like I've seen this game before. This one at least hit something and changed direction on the way in. Flyers 1, Penguins 0
• This is underway.
• The little kid who gets to stand with the players for the anthem is a tiny goalie, Alex Nedeljkovic bent down and talked to the kid for a little while when he got to him.
• Flyers' lines and pairings:
Tyson Foerster - Noah Caes - Bobby Brink Owen Tippet - Sean Couturier - Matvei Michkov Andrei Kuzmenko - Scott Laughton - Travis Konecny Jakob Pelletier - Ryan Poehling - Garnet Hathaway
Cam York - Travis Sanheim Nick Seeler - Jamie Drysdale Egor Zamula - Rasmus Ristolainen
• Penguins' lines and pairings for tonight. Boko Imama gets in for Michael Bunting. Ryan Graves replaces P.O Joseph:
Rickard Rakell - Sidney Crosby - Bryan Rust Anthony Beauvillier - Evgeni Malkin - Cody Glass Danton Heinen - Kevin Hayes - Phil Tomasino Boko Imama - Blake Lizotte - Noel Acciari
Ryan Shea - Kris Letang Matt Grzelcyk - Erik Karlsson Ryan Graves - Vincent Desharnais
• Emil Bemstrom is indeed here and on the ice for warmups. Boko Imama is also out there.
• Saw lots of Max Talbot jerseys on the walk in. It's his bobblehead night, he'll be in the building.
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THE ASYLUM
Taylor Haase
3:37 am - 02.27.2025UptownFinal: Penguins 5, Flyers 4, OT
• Who: Penguins (23-28-9) vs. Flyers (26-26-7)
• What: NHL regular season, Game 61
• When: 7:38 p.m.
• Where: PPG Paints Arena
• Goaltenders: Alex Nedeljkovic (12-11-5, .893 SV%) vs. Samuel Ersson (18-10-3, .896 SV%)
• TV: None
• Radio: Penguins Radio Network
• Streaming: ESPN+, Hulu, Disney+
• Boxscore: NHL.com
• Media notes: Penguins | Flyers
► FOLLOW ALONG
• GOAL: Evgeni Malkin slams on the brakes in front of the net and buries it, this after a two-on-one with Letang. Penguins 5, Flyers 4 is the final.
• Before OT, the videoboard showed a guy dancing on the concourse and he flashed his phone and it was the Taco Bell app ordering screen.
• Overtime.
• One minute.
• Down to two minutes.
• This is intense. Both teams getting great chances.
• Penguins kill the penalty.
• Penguins to the PK with 13:19 left. Phil Tomasino for two for tripping.
• Hold UP. Ryan Graves had the secondary assist there. His first point of the season. It happened!
• GOAL: Evgeni Malkin ties it, snapped a shot from the left circle. Penguins 4, Flyers 4
• Third period is underway.
• Seeing a bizarre range of lip-reading attempts of Alex Nedeljkovic on the bench after he got yanked. Things that aren't even similar to each other but everyone's so confident they're right and I don't think anything I've seen looks like what he said. It was a split second and the camera wasn't even steady on him. But that's enough for people to make wild accusations.
• End of the second. Flyers lead, 4-3. Erik Karlsson has a pair of goals, Phil Tomasino has another. Shots are even, 22-22.
• GOAL: It's a one-goal game again. Erik Karlsson rips a shot from the right circle for his second goal of the game. Flyers 4, Penguins 3
• The player with the top speed tonight on the Penguins? Boko Imama, at 21.35 miles per hour. Sidney Crosby is just behind at 21.16. Not the first time Imama has been up there in a game on this list.
• Sidney Crosby hit the post.
• Boko Imama doesn't miss a shift after his penalty and manages to get a partial breakway on his next one. Tries to finish on his backhand but is denied.
• GOAL: Matvei Michkov on the power play. Heavy wrister from the top of the left circle. Flyers 4, Penguins 2
• They reviewed the major on Boko Imama and reduced it to a minor for interference. I imagine he'll have to answer for it when he gets out of the box.
• Oof. Garnet Hathaway is down and might be knocked out. Boko Imama interfered with him, blindsided him in the neutral zone. Those two had been going at each other for awhile. It didn't seem like Imama hit Hathaway that hard but he went down hard. Imama gets a major out of it. Hathaway is eventually able to get up and skate off with assistance. A lot of assistance. Practically dragged him off.
• GOAL: And another quick one. Erik Karlsson with a shot from the blue line. Flyers 3, Penguins 2
• GOAL: Phil Tomasino gets the Penguins on the board, roofing a backhand shot over Samuel Ersson's blocker side. Sick hands. Flyers 3, Penguins 1
• That'll end Alex Nedeljkovic's night, and he's heated. Broke his stick over the pipe and chucked it across the ice, then slammed the bench door hard as he got to the bench and appeared to be yelling at Mike Sullivan. Joel Blomqvist comes in.
• GOAL: That one will count. Rasmus Ristolainen banks one off the end boards, Matvei Michkov picks it up and puts it into the open net. Net was open after Alex Nedeljkovic slid forward and to the side going for the initial shot. Flyers 3, Penguins 0
• Officials look at that redirect on video, still no goal.
• Flyers think they scored off an Andrei Kuzmenko redirect but it's immediately waived off for a high stick. Officials all confer and come to the same conclusion.
• Boko Imama looks like he wants to go with Garnet Hathaway. Both yapping at each other.
• GOAL: Flyers double the lead. Owen Tippett's shot from back by the blue line hits Ryan Shea and deflects in. Flyers 2, Penguins 0
• Second period is underway.
• The Penguins outhit the Flyers 16-7 in the first. That's what happens when you don't have the puck for most of it.
• End of the first period. Flyers lead 1-0 after Noah Cates' goal on their first shot. Shots are 8-6 Flyers.
• Nothing on the power play.
• Sidney Crosby takes a long-range shot and Kevin Hayes nearly puts in the rebound right at the net-front, but Samuel Ersson gets a pad on it.
• Penguins get a power play with 4:32 left in the first. Cam York gets two for high-sticking Bryan Rust.
• They took away the Phil Tomasino shot for some reason, maybe it was going wide. Kris Letang gets the new first shot 14:40 in. Danton Heinen gets their second shot seconds later. Rejoice.
• Phil Tomasino gets the Penguins' first shot at the 12:32 mark of the first period and the crowd gives a big mock cheer for it.
• At the 12-minute mark here. Still no shots. Flyers have seven.
• A misplay between Cody Glass and Vincent Desharnais leads to a Flyers 2-on-1 the other way. Alex Nedeljkovic stops Travis Konecny then Scott Laughton on the follow-up, and covers the puck for a stoppage.
• They play Max Talbot's tribute video for his bobblehead night at the first TV timeout. It opens with the "Superstar Treatment" commercial clip. Big ovation from the crowd when he's shown on the videoboard with his family. He does the "Shhhh" and they get louder.
• Nine minutes in, still no shots for the Penguins. Flyers are up to five.
• This game is seven minutes old and the Flyers have the game's only four shots.
• Bryan Rust is out there again.
• The Penguins were essentially shorthanded leading up to that goal because Bryan Rust went down hard on his knee in the Flyers' end and it took him some time to get to the bench and get off. He's staying on the bench now, at least.
• GOAL: Noah Cates scores on the Flyers' first shot. I feel like I've seen this game before. This one at least hit something and changed direction on the way in. Flyers 1, Penguins 0
• This is underway.
• The little kid who gets to stand with the players for the anthem is a tiny goalie, Alex Nedeljkovic bent down and talked to the kid for a little while when he got to him.
• Flyers' lines and pairings:
Tyson Foerster - Noah Caes - Bobby Brink
Owen Tippet - Sean Couturier - Matvei Michkov
Andrei Kuzmenko - Scott Laughton - Travis Konecny
Jakob Pelletier - Ryan Poehling - Garnet Hathaway
Cam York - Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler - Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula - Rasmus Ristolainen
• Penguins' lines and pairings for tonight. Boko Imama gets in for Michael Bunting. Ryan Graves replaces P.O Joseph:
Rickard Rakell - Sidney Crosby - Bryan Rust
Anthony Beauvillier - Evgeni Malkin - Cody Glass
Danton Heinen - Kevin Hayes - Phil Tomasino
Boko Imama - Blake Lizotte - Noel Acciari
Ryan Shea - Kris Letang
Matt Grzelcyk - Erik Karlsson
Ryan Graves - Vincent Desharnais
• Emil Bemstrom is indeed here and on the ice for warmups. Boko Imama is also out there.
• Saw lots of Max Talbot jerseys on the walk in. It's his bobblehead night, he'll be in the building.
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