Penguins Fizzle in 4-1 Loss to Flyers

There’s an old football adage attributable to one-time Steelers owner Bert Bell. “On any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team.” Unfortunately that saying proved out in reverse for our Penguins yesterday afternoon at Wells Fargo Center.

With a golden opportunity to secure two points and control our postseason destiny, we fumbled the ball…or the puck as the case may be…en route to a disquieting 4-1 loss to the Flyers.

The last-place Flyers. The Flyers who only recently lost six games in a row and 11 of 13. The Flyers who hadn’t won at home in over a month.

Those Flyers.

Yes, I know. The Pens were playing the second of back-to-back games and their third game in four days. And I’m not unsympathetic. Circumstances compelled me to work out Friday evening, and again on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Cardio, too. By game-time yesterday I was running on fumes. Perhaps being an older team, our Pens were, too.

Yet you’d hope they’d find a way, especially with so much at stake. Teams of destiny do.

Yesterday our boys didn’t.

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