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Flyers assistant coach calls Crosby and Malkin the “two dirtiest players” on the Penguins

Craig Berube

Flyers assistant coach Craig Berube says head coach Peter Laviolette “had a right to be upset” Sunday afternoon when Pittsburgh’s Joe Vitale clobbered Danny Briere late in a game.

Laviolette, of course, exercised his right to be upset by smashing a hockey stick and screaming at the Penguins’ bench.

“The bottom line is that the game was over and they put their five toughest guys on the ice,” Berube said on CSN Philly’s Daily News Live.

And while Berube agreed that retaliation was to be expected after Philadelphia’s Brayden Schenn cross-checked Sidney Crosby, he also called Crosby and Evgeni Malkin “the two dirtiest players on their hockey team.”

“They slash, they punch guys in the face, they do all these little things,” said Berube. “I got no problem with what Schenn does, and if somebody runs [Crosby] over, that’s great, they should run him over. This guy gets away with too much in my opinion, whines to the refs all day and all night, it’s a joke.”

So anyway, these two teams kinda hate each other.

You can watch the full interview below.