The Pens played the Philadelphia Flyers in game one of the Eastern Conference Finals at Mellon Arena on Friday, May 9, 2008. The Pens won with a final score of 4-2 This is the first page of game photos.
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Pens vs. Flyers : May 9, 2008
Eastern Conference Finals
Nittymaki, Carter, Dowd
Flyers warm up & Briere skates up to Laraque
Laraque and Briere chat
French buddies chatting
Fleury, Nittymaki, and Thoresen
Malone and sign from the fans for Fleury
Warm up
Don Cherry in the house
Cherry and Ron MacLean
Four lonely Flyers in a sea of white
Pens whiteout
Everyone had on white
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ bench
The Philadelphia Flyers’ bench
Things start to get chippy
All the whiteout fans
Better view of the white out
Gill, Malone, Richards, Knuble
Fleury coming from behind the net
Fleury under attack
Scuderi trying to clear the puck from in front of the net
Fleury behind the net playing the puck
Crosby and Dupuis
Richards getting right in front of Fleury
Letang and Whitney help clear the puck
Gill, Sykora, Malone celebrate goal
Sykora scored the first goal of the game
Carter chases Crosby
Dupuis surrounded by Flyers
Hartnell and Kukkonen knock down Ruutu
Ruutu heading to the bench as Malkin comes off
Fleury leaps into the air to catch the puck
The Flyers score shortly after
Ref checks on the goal
Richards & Roberts check on the goal--it is one
Crosby with the puck
Malkin between Hatcher and Hartnell
Kennedy, Knuble, Smith, Biron
Staal, Carter and Kennedy
Action around Biron--Pens don’t crowd the net
Things get congested around Biron
Dupuis knocked to his knees
Biron keeping his eyes on Crosby
Biron waits during ice cleaning
Thoresen and Dowd chat
Staal and Richards on face off
Staal and Hatcher
Fleury trying to stop the puck
The Flyers are insistent and crowd the net
Fleury, Gill, Scuderi trying to block the net
Richards scores his second goal
Biron watches Sykora & Carter chase the puck
Knuble trying to stop Malone with the puck
Crosby scores (I couldn’t see much in the 1st period because of the jerk standing when the puck crossed the blue line)
Pens celebrate the tying goal
Umberger & Orpik collide as Sykora skates to help Fleury
Gonchar, Sykora, Lupul
Biron grabs onto the puck
Scrum breaks out
Roberts, Upshaw, Hatcher, Carter, Biron
Laraque and Coburn on face off
Fleury trying to grab onto the puck
Fleury and Whitney trying to get the loose puck
Whitney hits Carter in the jaw
Briere and Crosby
Lupul and Dupuis
Gonchar helping Fleury
Carter holding back Malkin
Ruutu and Kukkonen
Roberts circling the Flyers’ net
Briere clearing the puck for Biron
Hatcher gets his stick on the puck
Malkin scores with 6 seconds left in the period
Pens celebrate the goal
End of 1st period: Pens 3 - Flyers 2
Flyers guarding against a Crosby goal
Attendance for the night
Biron covering the net
Malkin and Gonchar waiting for the puck
Face off
