Penguins 5 – Flyers 1
Not many could have predicted a 5-goal outburst from the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday night that would have three of the five goals coming from Ryan Reaves, Tom Kunhackl and Jamie Oleksiak.
Well that’s exactly what played out for the Penguins in a convincing 5-1 win over the Flyers to avoid falling to the cellar of the Metropolitan Division.
The Penguins victory was fueled by scoring 4 goals on eight shots in the second period, en route to the win.
As the power play often does, it got things rolling for the Penguins as Phil Kessel sniped his 17th goal of the season from the right circle.
Ryan Reaves, Conor Sheary and Tom Kuhnhackl would add goals in the period as Pittsburgh took control of the game quickly from the Flyers in period two and never let their foot off the gas.
What the Penguins did tonight was put on a work-man like performance in scoring three even strength markers.
The Reaves goal to put the Penguins ahead 2-1 was Pittsburgh just outworking the Flyers for pucks. Reaves gets in on the forecheck, keeps a play alive in the offensive zone and then outmuscles a defender in front for the goal.
It was a big moment for him in scoring his first goal in 38 games and then moments later Conor Sheary out-skates Andrew McDonald for a loose puck in center ice and buries his 11th of the season on a breakaway.
Pittsburgh kept coming and the 4th line (Kuhnhackl-Sheahan-Reaves) would strike again with a similar goal as the Reaves one later in the period.
On the Tom Kuhnhackl goal, the line got in hard on the forecheck and Kuhnhackl gets great positioning in the slot and fires one past Elliott.
Reaves and Kuhnhackl each had a goal, assist in the win. Riley Sheahan had 2 primary assists. Carter Rowney was injured during the game that saw Sheahan flourish with Kunhackl and Reaves below the dots.
What you saw from the Penguins tonight as a whole was play with a sense of urgency. They were fast on loose pucks and there was more attention to details in playing the right way in all three zones.
Tristan Jarry left the game in the second period after taking a shot to his right hand. Matt Murray came in and stopped all 11 shots in relief (25:26).
Who knows but maybe the work Murray got tonight that wasn’t planned leads to him start going on a bit of a run here.
Window has closed.
I like Letang’s positioning on the second goal. He did an excellent job of covering the boards behind the net. I could see why he would go that route though, as that’s where most of his point shots end up. What a joke he has been.
Too many Canadians on this year’s team.
Murray more often than not seems to come up with the big save at a crucial point in the game. Something Fleury rarely did. Guess that’s why he was the starting goaltender for 2 Stanley Cup championships and Fleury only one.
Watching Bellows run Gustavsson invokes memories of that 91 finals video lol
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CBauer cries when you use GIFs
His tablet is too advanced for our lowbrow GIFs.
Since it might be a shot at me no my tablet can get what it needs but NPL or what ever his name is now, is a dishonorable person and only person i have ever and will block on here. If he wasting his time and network for lil pictures that aren’t relevant go for it i wont know.
Lol
DB hated Fleury and Letang and was in love with Kennedy, Lovejoy, Orpik and Vokoun. Look where that got him. #SamKnew
Just for fun, can you imagine if the Pens held onto Fleury? Expansion draft coupled with salary cap and FA screwed Pens. Hard to expect them to 3-peat under conditions no other cup champ has ever had to deal with.
all you bandwagons thinnk sam makes sense which i told you he didnt when you all were drooling over his stupidity
Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse with yoda gone CBauer has stepped up to reinforce this place as an echo-chamber of idiocy. Sam, samdiego, and bauer are like the same 3 sided coin.
You, tbj and mstartari are like the same 3 sided coin. Whish I couldve included npl too but that one is a special case on its own .
Well NPL would equal four so you would have fucked that up.
Is that the best you can come up with? Sorry ZC67 you really do have problems keeping your personal opinions and a&& kissing get in the way. Keep the loyalty up I will keep watching with no excuses when a player is playing bad.
LOL, coming from the guy who joined the race baiting bandwagon put forth by samdeigo? You really have no clue what the fuckk youre talking about on a good day do you!
Zero thinks Hunwick is “looking good”
I haven’t spoke on Hunwick actually… since you brought it up… he’s not great, I mean he’s definitely no Reaves.
FTR from a production standpoint, Hunwick, who doesn’t need to see much ice time outside of injury going forward, has one more goal than Reaves has had all year lol
Hey Zero what is your fixation with hating Reaves. What sets him from others hmmmm lets think. You would probably hate Kane on a wing also. Shouldn’t you take 87 off your name till he shows back up?
I don’t like Reaves game because he can’t play, nothing more and you can spin it all you like if it helps you stop losing personal bets with yourself.
I do get a kick out of you crapping on Sid for his struggles when he has done more in this poor year than Reaves has done his entire career yet you are out apologizing for one while shitting on the guy that just won back to back Conn Smythes lol
So Crosby has really done so much this year, you haven’t seen the Sid struggles as anything wrong with this team? Also Sid has had these struggles long and longer each season. Sorry no blind loyalty a$$ kissing here but you keep those lips up. As for Reaves cant play didn’t know you were the arbiter of such knowledge. You must be so busy with all the GM’s calling you. BTW the bet was with someone else on this site who thought it was funny how much you jump at Reaves also. There does though seem to be a deeper… Read more »
Problem is I never said he has been playing well you fucken dolt, I simply noted that you keep using him as a contrast to garbage play coming from Reaves and it’s comical that you would do so based on; 1. Even in a year where Sid is struggling – seeing as you can fucken read I will break this down. It means I note that Sid has not played well, I have not made excuses for him and throughout much of this nonsensical argument I have made statements like “with the exception of Kessel and Hornqvist” in relation to… Read more »
ZC you have no idea that team is made up of different players and style and each other player contributes to other players. As for your perceived racism i did it only as a joke but the more i look at your replies makes me wonder. Crosby makes about 7 times what Reaves so he sure as hell better get bigger numbers. He has been having pout sessions for the last 3 seasons off and on. This is his year he is now the leader no older guys to depend on and he isn’t coming through. You were the first… Read more »
I sure do get the make up… I also get that the team won two fucken cups without a guy like Reaves whose sole purpose is to “deter” rough play lol. You keep bringing up Sids rough year… shouldn’t Reaves presence alone have Sid firing on all cylinders? And like I give a **** about “striking first” lol. It’s not like your attempted insults have any cuts in anyway shape or form. You’re just a little to slow to realize your jabs are fucken Sam level bad lol. I made no generalized statements about Reaves. When he was picked up… Read more »
He’s white so you like him.
Yes by all means run with the narrative that it’s a race issue and not the fact that he can’t play and his acquisition represented a move away from what made the team successful. Never had an issue with Daley, never had an issue with Iginla either. You guys have at er if this is what makes you feel better defending a player that does nothing to improve the team.
Here, dance around this one… Adams killed penalties for this team but was hated out of town despite a marginally higher level of play…
Reaves has more goals this year than Crosby.
Player A has a playoff save percentage of .928. Player B has a playoffs save percentage of .908. Anyone want to guess which one fatsam thinks is better? Know you worth.
Zatkoff?
Where is zero when Reaves has a good game?
Fleury with another shutout night 1.77 GAA anyone miss him already. Zero ? Yoda?
Now you believe me morons when I said fleury will be better elsewhere because other defensively team would fit him better. While in Pittsburgh be was left dry most of the nights and when fraud Murray was in net team was more cautious now that Murray is officially starter goalie team does same to him but he is more exposed because he suckss more then fleury. As I said there is a reason why fleury has been drafted first overall and Murray 3rd round. Yet bandwagons here didn’t know how worth
Now you believe me morons when i said Sam sucks
Sam sucks. Gotta know you worth.
I agree 100%
That clown dB and his style ruined fleury career . .I’m sure Murray would’ve looked even worst then fleury if dB was pens coach. That moron will never get another job again. Pure fraud / Con artist
Didn’t know how worth…
I’m a Fleury supporter you dolt, Murray was the best option to keep for many reasons. They are clearly too complex for you to sort through however.
No Murray was better option. To trade younger and had more value then fleury at the time now that he is exposed as a fraud and good luck trading that bum
MAF has played 10 games this year… 10… you can leave your socks on and count to this you fucken moron! He has had three concussions in the past three seasons and two of them from stopping pucks. Murray had better numbers all around over the two seasons they played together he is half Fleury age and money. Put Murray in LV and see what he would do… the team here has been meh all year, had MAF stayed he would likely have seen similar issues that the Pens goalies have had
Bahahahaha, oh good, Reaves scores his second goal of the season, his 1st in 38… what was I thinking? Dude can play, even you can’t be this stupid
Great win. Sam sucks.
Ahh such a negative comment on a great night
come on just a minus 6 D is paying me per negative marks 🙂 I was hoping to get a minus 12 like Crosby