Back in the day, the Penguins-Flyers rivalry featured plenty of fisticuffs, roughhouse play and spilled blood. It was Paul Baxter vs. Behn Wilson, Jay Caufield vs. Jeff Chychrun, Gary Roberts vs. Ben Eager, Big Georges Laraque vs. Riley Cote and Deryk Engelland vs. Wayne Simmonds, to name but a few battles and battlers.
In keeping with the general trend of the sport, it’s a kinder, gentler rivalry these days, with nary a dropped glove.
Just don’t tell the Flyers that. Or ex-Pen Ryan Poehling, plastered on a jarring open-ice hit by Noel Acciari.
In the latest installment of the Battle of Pennsylvania (or Commonwealth Cold War in you prefer) our Pens grabbed their Philly foes by the scruff of the neck and ran them out of PPG Paints Arena to the tune of a 7-3 hiding.
Our top guns paced the attack. Sidney Crosby (four points), Rickard Rakell (three) and Bryan Rust (two) combined for three goals and nine points.
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