Flyers Reel in Penguins, 4-3

“Too much, too soon.”

As I watched our Penguins bolt from the starting gate last night, that quote from the hockey classic Slap Shot popped into my head. Uttered by a ref while watching Broom County’s Barclay Donaldson beat the tar out of the Chiefs’ Dave “Killer” Carlson, it’s also an apt epithet for our deflating 4-3 come-from-in-front loss to the Flyers at PPG Paints Arena.

Indeed, when Jared McCann’s sprawling redirect of a nifty Kasperi Kapanen feed ran the score to 3-0 in favor of the good guys, I glanced at the time of the goal.

Three-fifty-seven.

Still over 56 minutes of hockey to be played. That’s a lot of time, I thought. I hope we don’t go into prevent mode.

Which is pretty much what happened. We had six shots on goal at that stage. We unleashed only 23 more the rest of the way. During that span the Flyers piled up 35.

A classic case of the tortoise and the hare.

It reminded me of our ill-fated playoff series versus the Flyers in 2012.

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