In the regular NHL season, Pinny leans were amazing for the first 2 months and then horrible thereafter. In other words, if you bet the side Pinny was offering the nice price on you would have done horribly in the first 2 months and amazingly thereafter. Playoffs are a different story, though. Haven't noticed any trends there. In general, though, be very careful in hitting any high volleys from Pinnacle.
funny u shld say that...as a Flyer's fan I am also extremly worried...
Here are the Keys to Victory for FLYERS:
ESCHE must step up his play...some may not agree but he has not been Stanley Cup Material these playoffs...He has been very good....but Not Great.
Flyer's Top Gun's (Other than Primeau) must step up their game...Primeau is gonna command alot of attention tonite...often being double teamed....If he can battle his way through it & find the open Man the other Flyer Stars must step up & Score.
Here are the Keys to Victory for FLYERS:
ESCHE must step up his play...some may not agree but he has not been Stanley Cup Material these playoffs...He has been very good....but Not Great.
Flyer's Top Gun's (Other than Primeau) must step up their game...Primeau is gonna command alot of attention tonite...often being double teamed....If he can battle his way through it & find the open Man the other Flyer Stars must step up & Score.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) The Tampa Bay Lightning found the answer to Keith Primeau in Brad Richards.
Richards scored twice on the power play and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 28 shots Tuesday night as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 and moved within one victory of their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals.
Ruslan Fedotenko scored a third power-play goal, and Tim Taylor added an empty-netter off a pass from NHL scoring champion Martin St. Louis to ensure the Lightning would take a 3-2 lead in their first appearance in the Eastern Conference finals.
Game 6 is Thursday night in Philadelphia, where the Flyers are 7-1 in the playoffs after splitting Games 3 and 4 in this series. Game 7, if necessary, will be Saturday night in Tampa.
Khabibulin recovered from a shaky stretch in which he gave up two goals within 38 seconds to stand tall for Tampa Bay down the stretch. He stopped 15 shots half the number the Flyers attempted all night in the third period.
Primeau was virtually a one-man wrecking crew in the two games in Philadelphia, winning Game 4 with a short-handed goal and setting the tone for the physical play that the Flyers hope will take its toll on the smaller Lightning as the series moves into the late stages.
The Lightning felt if they were going to gain the upper hand, they had to find a way to slow down the Philadelphia captain without getting away from their game, which is predicated on speed and controlling the puck, rather than outmuscling opponents.
Feeding off the energy of a sellout crowd of 21,517, Tampa Bay outshot the Flyers 18-8 in the opening period and took a 1-0 lead on Fedotenko's sixth goal of the postseason.
Richards scored from the left circle just 24 seconds into the second period, then made it 3-0 when he beat goaltender Robert Esche after Vincent Lecavalier won a faceoff against Primeau in the Flyers' defensive zone.
Cory Stillman slipped a pass to Richards in the slot, and the Tampa Bay center scored a mere three seconds into the power play.
But just when it looked like the game might be drifting out of reach, the Flyers scored twice on Khabibulin within 38 seconds with Michal Handzus redeeming himself for being in the penalty box when Richards gave Tampa Bay its three-goal lead.
Handzus scored just under nine minutes into the second, and Patrick Sharp, assisted by Primeau, added his first career playoff goal to trim the Lightning lead to 3-2.
Philadelphia pulled Esche with a minute to go, and Taylor scored his empty-net goal with 14.3 seconds left. Notes: Richards' goal 24 seconds into the second period set a Lightning playoff record for fastest goal at the start of a period. ... Tampa Bay is 9-1 in the playoffs when scoring first. The lone loss came in Game 4 at Philadelphia. The Flyers are 1-4 when the opposition scores first. ... Flyers D Joni Pitkanen did not play after sustaining a possible concussion in Game 4. ... Lightning D Brad Lukowich returned after missing Games 3 and 4 with an upper body injury.
Richards scored twice on the power play and Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 28 shots Tuesday night as the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 and moved within one victory of their first trip to the Stanley Cup finals.
Ruslan Fedotenko scored a third power-play goal, and Tim Taylor added an empty-netter off a pass from NHL scoring champion Martin St. Louis to ensure the Lightning would take a 3-2 lead in their first appearance in the Eastern Conference finals.
Game 6 is Thursday night in Philadelphia, where the Flyers are 7-1 in the playoffs after splitting Games 3 and 4 in this series. Game 7, if necessary, will be Saturday night in Tampa.
Khabibulin recovered from a shaky stretch in which he gave up two goals within 38 seconds to stand tall for Tampa Bay down the stretch. He stopped 15 shots half the number the Flyers attempted all night in the third period.
Primeau was virtually a one-man wrecking crew in the two games in Philadelphia, winning Game 4 with a short-handed goal and setting the tone for the physical play that the Flyers hope will take its toll on the smaller Lightning as the series moves into the late stages.
The Lightning felt if they were going to gain the upper hand, they had to find a way to slow down the Philadelphia captain without getting away from their game, which is predicated on speed and controlling the puck, rather than outmuscling opponents.
Feeding off the energy of a sellout crowd of 21,517, Tampa Bay outshot the Flyers 18-8 in the opening period and took a 1-0 lead on Fedotenko's sixth goal of the postseason.
Richards scored from the left circle just 24 seconds into the second period, then made it 3-0 when he beat goaltender Robert Esche after Vincent Lecavalier won a faceoff against Primeau in the Flyers' defensive zone.
Cory Stillman slipped a pass to Richards in the slot, and the Tampa Bay center scored a mere three seconds into the power play.
But just when it looked like the game might be drifting out of reach, the Flyers scored twice on Khabibulin within 38 seconds with Michal Handzus redeeming himself for being in the penalty box when Richards gave Tampa Bay its three-goal lead.
Handzus scored just under nine minutes into the second, and Patrick Sharp, assisted by Primeau, added his first career playoff goal to trim the Lightning lead to 3-2.
Philadelphia pulled Esche with a minute to go, and Taylor scored his empty-net goal with 14.3 seconds left. Notes: Richards' goal 24 seconds into the second period set a Lightning playoff record for fastest goal at the start of a period. ... Tampa Bay is 9-1 in the playoffs when scoring first. The lone loss came in Game 4 at Philadelphia. The Flyers are 1-4 when the opposition scores first. ... Flyers D Joni Pitkanen did not play after sustaining a possible concussion in Game 4. ... Lightning D Brad Lukowich returned after missing Games 3 and 4 with an upper body injury.
