Penguins-Flyers: Pittsburgh Advances to Stanley Cup Finals

If you look back at the regular season for the Penguins against the Flyers, you would think that the Flyers would have easily took this series—but you would have been wrong.

The Penguins took it to the Flyers in the series and in Game Five.  The Penguins won 6-0 behind an excellent performance from goalie Marc Andre Fleury.

Pittsbugh started the scoring early in the first period, with a goal coming off the skate of Ryan Malone. The shot originated of the stick of Sidney Crosby, then was redirected by the skate of Malone into the net.

The Penguins continued the scoring in the first on a seemingly empty-net goal by Evgeni Malkin. The play developed as the puck went behind the net and Philadelphia goalie Martin Biron and Pittsburgh's Ryan Malone went after the puck behind the net.

Malone came out with the puck and Biron came out of the scrum without his goalie stick. Needless to say, the Penguins took advantage of this when Evgeni Malkin to the puck from behind the net and stuffed it in the net off of Biron to give the Penguins a 2-0 lead.

The Penguins continued the scoring in the second, when Marian Hossa took an excellent feed from Sidney Crosby at the hash marks and deposited the puck into the back of the net. The Penguins then took a 4-0 lead, when Ryan Malone deflected a shot by Sergei Gonchar into the net past Biron.

Later on in the second period, Jordan Stall backhanded the puck past Biron to give the Penguins a 5-0 lead. The Penguins capped off the scoring with a goal by Pascal Dupuis, which was also deflected off a shot taken by Marian Hossa.

The Penguins are moving on to their first Stanley Cup Final since the won the Cup in 1992. They will either play the Detroit Red Wings or the Dallas Stars, who will play Game Six of their series tomorrow night in Dallas.