SIDNEY CROSBY LET his hockey do the talking as he led the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 10-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night in the first round of the Eastern Conference series.
Despite a hat-trick from team mate Jordan Staal and two more from Evgeni Malkin, it was Crosy – labelled a coward by the Philadelphia media for his performances in the series so far – who led the Penguins’ comeback and ensure the Flyers didn’t sweep the series.
In a series plagued by penalty minutes – the Penguins had 158 in game three – Pittsburgh decided that scoring might prove a more successful tactic than fouling and hit ten past Ilya Bryzgalov and Sergei Bobrovsky in the Flyers’ goal.
It was the first time in 22 years that a team has scored ten goals in a playoff game and reduces the Flyers’ series lead to 3-1
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Elsewhere in the Eastern Conference the top seeded New York Rangers let a two goal lead slip in the second period when goals from Milan Michalek and Sergi Gonchar cancelled out first period strikes from the Rangers’ Anton Stralman and Ryan Callahan.
They were made to pay for their sloppiness by the Ottawa Senators in overtime when Kyle Turris scored to tie the series at two games apiece.
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In the Western Conference, the Vancouver Canucks came from behind to beat the LA Kings 3-1 and ensure they didn’t suffer an embarrassing clean sweep at the hands of the number eight seeds.
The Canucks were boosted by the return of Daniel Sedin to the starting line-up as the Swede played his first game since suffering a concussion on March 21.
Alexander Edler, Kevin Bieksa and Henrik Sedin all scored to cancel Anze Kopitar’s opener for the Kings.
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Why do Dublin championship games be played mid week?Can’t be ideal for lads working
It’s a big rush to get them sorted cause the Leinster club championship is starting.
It’s midweek because all the other championships are on at the same time, Senior, B championship, inters junior and in both codes. It’s as complicated as a school timetable, you can’t have clashes because one club can be in more than one championship etc. It’s all squashed in but not the easiest thing to remedy but saying that all the junior and inter championships should be done and dusted during the summer, don’t understand the delay
Its an absolute disgrace that a county semi final was played at 8.15pm on a wednesday night..if the county board want to promote the game, they are making a poor hand of it.
The clubs don’t help at times. Hurling championship Games where held up for lads who were on the county football bench. In some cases these guys didn’t even play hurling when the next round eventually went ahead.
I don’t know of any other county that plays club championship matches midweek.
Fixing the final for Halloween and at the same time as the Rugby World Cup Final is surely not a smart decision either.
Won’t make a difference for me, Ireland are out, hurling would be more exciting
Cuala v Judes, big day for both clubs, cuala haven’t won since 1994 and Judes have never won as far as i know. Nice to see! Boden and Crokes have dominated for the last number of years and a change is comin!