The Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t play a good hockey game in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Of course, by the end of the night, it wasn’t even hockey that was being played. It was more like professional wrestling.
After a couple of quiet years, the Penguins-Flyers rivalry appears to be back.
The Flyers won in a zany 3-2 shootout.
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Both teams thought they’d won the game on one occasion. Evgeni Malkin’s goal in overtime didn’t count because the Pittsburgh center skated onto the ice far too early during a delayed penalty call.
Then, the Flyers thought they had the game won in overtime, only to have a goal overturned on an offside review.
That was just the beginning, however.
At the conclusion of overtime, a brawl erupted. Trevor Zegras dislodged Noel Acciari’s helmet while he was down and then started throwing punches at Acciari. Parker Wotherspoon was hogtied by a lineman. Sidney Crosby, Ryan Shea, Wotherspoon, Zegras, Acciari, Tyson Foerster, Owen Tippett and Jamie Drysdale were all given misconducts at the end of overtime.
Crosby, thus, was ineligible to take part in the shootout, which
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