Yuck!

Yesterday saw not one, but two professional hockey teams that are named after a flightless bird and garnish black and gold colors fall to a division foe.

First it was the Pittsburgh Penguins who traveled east to take on the Flyers and there fans with stupid orange shirts. Looking to take a 3-0 series lead the Pens were down and they clawed their back, then they were down again but this time their claws weren’t sharp enough as they watched the Flyers cruise to a 6-3 victory to make the series 2-1.

There is no need to be worried, I doubt many people believed they would be leading the series 2-0 going in to this. They are still playing good hockey and I am sure “Diamond” Dan Bylsma will have the boys ready to go on Tuesday night.

Later that night the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins hosted their first home Calder Cup playoff game of 2009 with a 2-0 series lead over Bridgeport, this game would be interesting to say the least for the 5,731 white wearing fans in attendance.

Bridgeport jumped on the scoreboard first with a goal early in the first period but the Pens answered with one of their own to tie it up. After many hits and gang fights by the nets the Pen pilled on 4 goals (3 PP goals) in the second period to take the 4-2 lead and a 3-0 series lead at the beginning of the third period, but things would drastically change in the remaining 20 minutes. Two goals by Bridgeport in the 3rd would knot up the score at 4-4 and more importantly give the Sound Tigers the momentum and take the crowd out of the game. Little changed in OT, the shot were there but both teams played tough but Sean Bentivoglio’s slap shot would elude John Curry’s pad and seal the deal for the Sound Tigers as they stole a 5-4 win from the Pens.

Game 4 of this series will resume Wednesday as Bridgeport will be hosting their first “home” game of this series after being the playing the first two “home” games at the Nassau Coliseum.