Gameday 1 - Flyers

7:00 PM

 

 

 

Know the Enemy:

Flyers Goal Scored By

 

From their gameday:

"The Flyers get to open the Consol Energy Center, the latest earring on the pig called Pittsburgh tonight, and I fully expect Pens fans to make it sound like the playoffs start in October. The Penguins are a good if not great hockey club. Their downfall last season, when the Habs suprised the Pens, was their defense. Their D is good, and their top 4 is the second best in the East (Flyers blueline is better. period mark.) Goals Against with MA Fluery, Brooks Orpik, Paul Martin, Kris Letang and Zbynek Michalek out there will be hard for any team to overcome."

And here we are.

 

For the first time since May, meaningful hockey will be played in Pittsburgh.

And tonight we are in the CONSOL Energy Center.
 

This is the arena we dreamed of.

Through the leaky roofs and the power outages and the bankruptcies and the threats of relocation, we had this dream.

We had this dream of a new building.

And we held on to this dream. 
Even when it was the darkest and it looked like we had nothing to believe in or look forward to, we held onto this dream.

 

And now it's here.

 

Across the street sits the Igloo.

Up until now it's held all of our hockey memories:
· Lemieux's five goals in five different ways.

· Jaromir Jagr's tying goal against the Blackhawks in 1992.

· The 1990 All-Star Game.
Sidney Crosby's first goal.

· The tribute to Badger Bob.

· Mario Lemieux coming out of retirement.

· Rob Scuderi in the crease against Detroit.

 

And of course the Igloo brought us a share of heartbreak as well:

· Keith Primeau in overtime.

· Mike Cammalleri.

· The Wings holding the Cup.

· David Volek.

 

But even though we have moved across the street, we bring those memories with us.

They have not died.  In fact, they will live with us forever.

 

Tonight, in our beautiful new building, we begin to make new memories.
It's A Great Day For Hockey.

 

 

The Pens line up:

Chris Kunitz - Sidney Crosby - Pascal Dupuis
Eric Tangradi - Mike Comrie - Evgeni Malkin
Matt Cooke - Mark Letestu - Tyler Kennedy
Mike Rupp - Craig Adams - Max Talbot/Eric Godard

Brooks Orpik - Zbynek Michalek
Ben Lovejoy - Paul Martin
Alex Goligoski - Deryk Engelland

Marc-Andre Fleury

Arron Asham has been placed on IR.
Kris Letang is "under the weather" and will be a game-time decision.

The Flyers lines:

Daniel Carcillo - Mike Richards - Jeff Carter
Scott Hartnell - Daniel Briere - Ville Leino
Nikolay Zherdev - Claude Giroux - James van Riemsdyk
Jody Shelly - Blair Betts - Darroll Powe

Kimmo Timonen - Matt Carle
Andrej Meszaros - Braydon Coburn
Sean O'Donnell - Oskars Bartulis

Sergei Bobrovsky

Chris Pronger will be a game-time decision, but isn't likely.
For some reason, rookie Sergei Bobrovsky will start for the Flyers instead of Brian Boucher.

 

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Let's take out the garbage:

 

 

 

 

Do It.

 

Go Pens.