In short, absolutely fucking not. Sidney Crosby owns them. The more they boo, the more he says they sucks, the more he will just shove it right up their hoop. For 20 years those scumbag fans have chanted that he sucks, and he responds by outright torching their loser franchise. 59 goals, 78 assists, 137 points in 92 games. Nine percent of Crosby’s career goals have come against Philadelphia; he has quite literally owned that city and those bum ass fans for two decades. The people of that city are simply too stupid to understand that jeering him has not worked and will never work. The more they root for him to fail, the more he succeeds. Every Batman needs the Joker and honestly, Crosby might be both based on your perspective? Bryan Rust said that Crosby loves playing the villain. Crosby loves hockey, everyone knows that, but it’s quite possible that he loves beating the Flyers more. After the game Monday, as the victory song boomed from the locker room, Sid did an interview where he actually seemed disappointed that he didn’t score more. Crosby scored twice and his team won 5-1, yet he wanted more. That is pure deep-rooted hatred. He hates those dirt bags as much as the rest of Pittsburgh and wants to punish them every single chance he gets. So, Philly please keep chanting “Crosby sucks,” it will

The saddest thing about Philadelphia is not that they are literally too dumb to understand their debauchery is what fuels The Captains fire, it’s the fact that the team has become soft. Garnet Hathaway, a true 1 of 1 in terms of being a piece of shit, refuses to fight Boko Imama. Hathaway throws a forearm in Lizotte’s head, gets cup checked, and not a single person attempted to stand up for Hathaway after Lizotte gave him a cup check.

Then you have TikTok boy Trevor Zegras. What a soft bitch this guy is, in the first game he started a melee by doing a hit and hide behind the ref, and in this game, he tried to act like he was about that smoke with Connor Clifton?

Truly a sad look, these are supposed to be the Broad Street Bullies!!! Just like they’re fans, they are sad losers. Beating them always feels good but beating them and making them look soft is even better. All their fans crying that Lizotte was being cheap. Fuck off. I remember you all celebrating Derian Hatcher as if he was the pope when he knocked out the teeth of an 18-year-old. Now, you want to cry that after your player throws an elbow to the noggin and got cup checked for it. Sad to see what has happened to this once proud franchise. The bully becomes the bullied. The Flyers never win, and never will, but at least they used to have some pride. They had players calling Parker Wotherspoon the worst player on the team only for him to respond by playing great (per usual) and tossing Kevin Hayes one hell of a pass. The Penguins have now made them look like bitches in both games and embarrassed them physically, and on the scoreboard, in their own barn.

Now that I am done poking fun at Philly, I have a few thoughts about the Penguins 5-1 win:

• The kid line might need to stay intact. McGroarty was good, and way faster than last year. Kindel is basically always good and was on Monday. Koivunen however, played his best game of the season and I believe having a line the fully compliments one another could have been the key.
• Blake Lizotte is exactly what you want in a fourth line player. The Penguins were shorthanded seven times, including two long five on threes. They only surrendered one goal and Lizotte played a big factor. All season he has played with great tenacity and his penalty killing work has been superb.
• We can all see Crosby heating up, he is basically scoring every game. We all expect Sid to go on heaters but his linemate Rust is following suit. Rust has been incredible after a little bit of a slow start to the season.
• Jarry was incredible again. He is making the case against trading him while simultaneously making himself more tradeable. Either way, I think you have to ride him for a little bit. The schedule is tough and Silovs hasn’t played well recently. Let Jarry play and figure out the trade situation later in the season based on Silovs/Murashov’s development.
• The team is about to get healthy and there are going to be some seriously hard decisions to make. Hayes should be out of the lineup. It’s getting harder to suggest Novak should sit but I’m not sure he’s a good third liner. Imama will go, as will Koppanen. It seems likely that Koivunen will get demoted unless the kid line really starts to pop.