{"id":629988,"date":"2026-04-25T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629988\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:00:09","slug":"game-preview-game-4-at-philadelphia-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/629988\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Game 4 at Philadelphia Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>Quick Hits<\/p>\n<p>Heading into this series, the Penguins have advanced to at least the second round of the playoffs eight times in the 16 playoff runs they\u2019ve had with Sidney Crosby\u00a0and\u00a0Evgeni Malkin\u00a0in the lineup. In five of the 16 runs, Pittsburgh has gone to at least the Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins have two players on their postseason roster looking to make their NHL playoff debut \u2013 defensemen\u00a0Ilya Solovyov\u00a0and\u00a0Jack St. Ivany.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins are 23-14 all-time in Game 2 after losing in Game 1.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney\u00a0Crosby\u00a0enters the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs two victories from becoming the fourth active player to record 100 postseason wins and would join\u00a0Corey Perry\u00a0(135),\u00a0Ryan McDonagh\u00a0(105) and\u00a0Brad Marchand\u00a0(100). Notably, Lightning defenseman\u00a0Victor Hedman\u00a0enters one away from joining that list, while his teammate\u00a0Evgeni Malkin\u00a0(96) is also closing in on 100 playoff victories.<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins and Flyers played the longest contest in the NHL\u2019s modern era (since 1943-44) and third longest in NHL history when Philadelphia\u2019s\u00a0Keith Primeau\u00a0potted the winner at 12:01 of the fifth overtime in Game 4 of the 2000 Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes Quick Hits Heading into this series, the Penguins have advanced to at least the second round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-629988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629988","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=629988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}