2009 Stanley Cup playoffs: (4) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (5) Philadelphia Flyers
Down 3–0 in game six, Pittsburgh scored five straight goals to knock out Philadelphia in six games.
In the 2009 Eastern Conference quarterfinals the fourth-seeded Pittsburgh Penguins beat the fifth-seeded Philadelphia Flyers in six games. The teams finished level on 99 points, and Pittsburgh took the higher seed on total wins, 45 to 44. They had also met in the previous season's Eastern Conference Final, which the Penguins won in five games after losing all three earlier playoff series between the clubs, in 1989, 1997 and 2000.
Quick Facts
- Round
- Eastern Conference quarterfinals
- Seeds
- (4) Pittsburgh vs. (5) Philadelphia
- Result
- Pittsburgh won 4–2
- Game six
- Penguins came back from 3–0 with five straight goals
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Background
Sidney Crosby's early power-play goal started a 4–1 win in game one, and Bill Guerin's second goal of game two, on a five-on-three power play at 18:29 of overtime, won it 3–2. Philadelphia took game three 6–3, Marc-Andre Fleury's 45 saves carried Pittsburgh to a 3–1 win in game four, and Martin Biron's 28-save shutout gave the Flyers game five 3–0. In game six the Flyers led 3–0 in the second period before a fight between Daniel Carcillo and Max Talbot lifted the Penguins, who scored five unanswered goals, two of them by Crosby, to win the series.
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