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Discuss: Flyers knock out Penguins with 5-1 win in Game 6

Erik Gustafsson, Marc-Andre Fleury

Coming into today’s Game 6 the main questions were about who would step up and if the goaltending might do something to help normalize the series. As it turns out the answers to those questions would be “Claude Giroux” and “Yes, if you mean Ilya Bryzgalov.”

Giroux set the tone early delivering a monster hit on Sidney Crosby and then scoring moments later to put the Flyers ahead where they’d stay for the rest of the afternoon on their way to a 5-1 series-clinching victory in Game 6.

Some thoughts to ponder in the comments:

---- Claude Giroux broke a Flyers record for points in a first round series with 14. Turns out he didn’t. Tim Kerr owns the team record with 15 set back in 1989.

---- The Flyers power play again caused problems for the Penguins scoring once with the man advantage. The finished the series scoring 12 power play goals.

---- Marc-Andre Fleury went from being the Game 5 hero to the Game 6 goat. A bad performance from the one guy in the Penguins lineup that couldn’t afford to come up short.

---- Evgeni Malkin will see Sean Couturier in his nightmares but who will Sidney Crosby see in his?

---- Give it up to Ilya Bryzgalov and the Flyers’ defense for coming up big when they had to. Looks like Scott Hartnell’s wishes paid off for Philly.

---- The Flyers are just 12 knock-knocks away from the Stanley Cup.

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