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Told my self I’d keep this pinned until the pens made the playoffs again…let’s just say I thought it’d be up much much longer #flipthescript #believe #letsgopens

@UfoSunday I’d say Skinner is reliable enough with the depth up front. Letang is sagging but EK has been playing prime hockey since March. If you guys can capitalize on special teams and somehow pump a ton of goals in then it’s possible

@gopens_fphilly Skinner is still putting up bad numbers behind your "tough" defense. Edge: Flyers. Your D is not only small, your top 2 Dmen are pushing 40 and Letang is sagging badly. Kindel will be a good player eventually but matches poorly against every Flyers center.

I’m starting to get on Flyers twitter a little bit and it concerns me to see how confident they are that they’re gonna win

@BrendanCull3 Huh

@gopens_fphilly The pirates are sick

@PaulHouse12 You know you’re right, I was pretty confident in 2022 and now looking back I have no idea what I was thinking

@gopens_fphilly Every team is confident their team is going to win

@Jusisnottaweeb2 I like to poke a little bit it’s fun

@gopens_fphilly I let them be mostly because we all have copium our teams are gonna win especially in established rivalries and at the end of the day anything is possible

@dShadows684 I mean it’s in the username and what else am I gonna post about

@gopens_fphilly Team was the best after the break and made the playoffs for the first time in 6 years. Yeah they’re gonna want to be happy and optimistic. Like yeah it’s a rivalry but you’re just an idiot who legitimately only post about Philly 😂

@SpagnolJack @dShadows684 There isn’t (maybe LA) and we got lucky to play them rd 1

@dShadows684 @gopens_fphilly 27 regulation wins in 82 games. Not sure that there is a worse team in the playoffs

@dShadows684 @dpbm17 Someone’s mad it would be wrong for them to have such a cool pfp bc he’s never seen his team win a cup

@dpbm17 @gopens_fphilly

@UfoSunday Our goaltender has been to 2 straight cup finals behind a defense that is even worse than ours, our defensemen are tough even if undersized, and our 3rd line center is one of the most poised players on our team who is surrounded by two 6’5 monsters

@gopens_fphilly Your goaltender is a sieve, your defensemen are small and your 3rd line center is a 12 year old. What's not to be confident about?

This is exactly how game 1 is going to go btw

@gopherkonecny The script was that we were tanking for McKenna. They are now trying to flip it and get a cup, not that hard to figure out

Tf does Flip The Script even mean? You're all 40 with multiple cups and are trying to flip the script on getting knee surgery?

@JohnDesire They certainly do but I just think Rusty and Raks with Sid has become too bland

@gopens_fphilly I think Chinakhov should go back w/ Malkin, I think they had really good chemistry together.

My lines for game 1: 59-87-17 18-67-71 39-81-16 25-46-55 (Alt 4th line w/o Lizzo: 25-55-85) 28-65 49-58 5-75 74 39 Offensive depth (when healthy): 1. Dewar 2. A. Hayes 3. McGroarty 4. K. Hayes Defensive depth: 1. Solovyov 2. St. Ivany 3. Graves

@jackrichrdson They definitely didn’t. If they get past them their second round matchup will be somewhat easier against the pens or flyers so there’s that

Hurricanes are a tough draw but there is no easy path this year. I don’t think they wanted the Sens.

@LockedNHLBruins Sabres-Bruins is just as entertaining

Under the old playoff format, we'd have Montreal (4) vs Boston (5) in the first round. Sad.

@BasedBuff Quick down down I-90 😭

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but for a quick drive down the I-90 you can watch your favorite hockey team play for MUCH cheaper 👀 #Sabrehood

@FlyersJohnny Fire him up for all I care but you’re right he’s still gonna produce at like 2 PPG

Re: all of the “Don’t chant at Crosby” people - He’s a top 5 player of all time. Hes going to get his goals/points whether we chant at him or not. “Crosby Sucks” has a certain irreplaceable nostalgia to it. It will be chanted.

Kinda pmo that the NHL won’t release the schedule until probably Thursday night or Friday morning. I just wanna be able to plan my schedule for the next couple weeks 😭

This probably implies Lizzo will be back…unless Dewar became the fastest penguin ever to come back with a week to week tag

@MolinariPGH Not sure about this Crosby guy

For the first time in years I don’t think the Bruins will be taking over KeyBank Center