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Thanks to my friend Jim, I made it to last night’s Penguins/Flyers game at the Wachovia Center. What a game it was! The Flyers (who fired their coach and GM earlier this week), came out fired up. They scored the first goal of the game at 2:02 of the first period, and the place erupted. The crowd was then silenced 4 minutes later when Sidney Crosby tied the game off a beautiful give-and-go with defenseman Ryan Whitney. It was almost all Penguins from that point on. Crosby scored his first career hat trick and Evgeni Malkin scored his fifth goal in five NHL games. Malkin’s goal came on the power play toward the end of the second. It was a one timer from Gonchar scored at an impossible angle. He banked it off the back of Robert Esche in Lemieux-esque fashion. Fleury had some rebound issues in the first period, but luckily for Pittsburgh, the Flyers weren’t able to capitalize on them. The Pens were in fact out shot 14-4 in the first period, but escaped with a 2-1 lead. Pittsburgh was able to cut down on the shots during the second and third period (which is something they need to do to help out Fleury this season), and the total ended up being 33-30 in the Flyers’ favor.

ESPN's recap.

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