{"id":616616,"date":"2026-04-19T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616616\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T07:01:08","slug":"sanheim-breaks-tie-in-3rd-flyers-defeat-penguins-in-game-1-of-eastern-1st-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616616\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanheim breaks tie in 3rd, Flyers defeat Penguins in Game 1 of Eastern 1st Round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evgeni Malkin<\/a> had a goal and an assist, and Skinner made 17 saves for the Penguins, who are the the No. 2 seed from the Metropolitan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c(The Flyers) make it hard,\u201d Pittsburgh coach Dan Muse said. \u201cI think that\u2019s part of their game, they\u2019ve been doing that for a while. … They can make it difficult. I think we got away from things that worked. Part of that is the intensity, everything is ramped up here in the playoffs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Game 2 is here on Monday (7 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, NBCSP, ESPN, TVAS2, SN360).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christian Dvorak<\/a> appeared to put Philadelphia ahead 1-0 on a power play at 8:19 of the first period, crashing the net and sliding the puck under Skinner. The goal was immediately waved off when it was determined Dvorak made incidental contact with Skinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Flyers forward Owen Tippett<\/a> had a breakaway after taking a stretch pass from Tyson Foerster<\/a>, but Skinner turned away his snap shot with a pad save at 8:20 of the second period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJust stay with the game,\u201d Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said, \u201cbecause you cheat the game, bang, it can go the other way. So, I don\u2019t think we cheated the game tonight. I thought we played a smart game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drysdale did put the Flyers up 1-0 at 9:19 of the second. Trevor Zegras<\/a>\u00a0fed a pass from below the goal line to Drysdale in the right circle, where his wrist shot slipped between Skinner’s pads through traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey played a good game,\u201d Penguins defenseman Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cI think they just played better than us today from start to finish. That\u2019s the way it is sometimes. It\u2019s unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evgeni Malkin had a goal and an assist, and Skinner made 17 saves for the Penguins, who are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-616616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}