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With mayhem breaking out across the National Hockey League playoffs, it was only a matter of time before the fever reached Philadelphia. The Flyers and the Pittsburgh Penguins had spent two games playing crazy hockey, but it had to do with skating and scoring and comebacks and goals. That stayed. The fever set in.
And it was the Penguins who melted down, perhaps irrevocably, in an 8-4 loss to Philadelphia that gave the Flyers a 3-0 series lead, in a game full of dumb penalties, team-wide defensive malfeasance, terrible special teams, and worst of all, outright headhunting.
“They were going after a couple of our guys’ heads,” Flyers winger Scott Hartnell told reporters after the game. “It’s scary when it comes down to that level. You...
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