{"id":631619,"date":"2026-04-26T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631619\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:45:08","slug":"penguins-defeat-flyers-in-game-4-of-east-1st-round-to-stay-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631619\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins defeat Flyers in Game 4 of East 1st Round to stay alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia leads the best-of-7 series 3-1. Game 5 will be at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Monday (7 p.m. ET; ESPN, SN, TVAS, SN-PIT, NBCSP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If somebody told you guys before the series we were going to be up 3-1 after four games, you guys wouldn&#8217;t believe us,&#8221; Vladar said. &#8220;So we are good. Nothing&#8217;s changing for us. Still being positive in here. &#8230; They are a really good team. It&#8217;s not easy to win four in a row against a team like that. We&#8217;re fine here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crosby put the Penguins ahead 1-0 at 14:24 of the first period with a power-play goal. On the ensuing face-off after Barkey was called for high-sticking, Crosby won the puck back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/erik-karlsson-8474578\" title=\"Erik Karlsson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0at the left point, then one-timed a return pass from the hash marks off Vladar&#8217;s glove.<\/p>\n<p>Rakell made it 2-0 at 1:03 of the second period. Vladar lost the puck in Rakell&#8217;s skates behind the net, and Rakell dove in front to backhand it into an open cage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know we&#8217;re not going to score many pretty goals,&#8221; Rakell said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to score some goals on second efforts, rebounds, all those kind of ugly goals that you have to score in the playoffs. That&#8217;s just going to have to keep coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia leads the best-of-7 series 3-1. Game 5 will be at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-631619","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\/631619","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=631619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}