Sidney Crosby, Mike Richards, Jeff Carter, and Braydon Coburn were once teammates.
Now they are bitter enemies.
Not just any normal rivals. This is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Not your typical sports cities.
Everyone knows about the Flyers and their crazy fans. Everyone knows what they do to the opposing team that attempts to defeat the mighty Broad Street Bullies in the Wachovia Center.
The Penguins know that.
They have lost all four games at the Wachovia center this year, and the Flyers dominated every one of those games.
Those four players won a gold medal together at the 2005 World Junior Championships. Canada dominated that year, and has continued to ever since.
But now they are playing against one another for one major goal that is worth an infinite number of times more than a gold medal at the World Juniors.
The Stanley Cup.
Every player wants to win the Cup, and most people will tell you that they would do anything in order to have a chance at winning it.
Including intimidating an opponent who used to be a good friend?
Just ask Mike Richards. When these two teams faced off earlier in the year, Richards and Crosby got into a rough scrum, along the boards after the whistle, and afterwards, Richards was seen being held back by a ref while yelling something at Crosby. Something that you could easily read from his lips. Something that sounded like:
$*@$^#!#@!
What good friends they are.
The Flyers have managed to intimidate the Pens at home, yet the Pens have been able to beat the Flyers 3 of 4 times at Mellon Arena this year.
How will this series turn out?
Well, isn't everyone just as excited as me to find out?
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