{"id":629206,"date":"2026-04-26T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629206\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:14:08","slug":"penguins-stave-off-sweep-with-game-4-win-over-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/629206\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins stave off sweep with Game 4 win over Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/sidney-crosby\/433de553-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"433de553-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/kris-letang\/4342422b-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"4342422b-0f24-11e2-8525-18a905767e44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kris Letang<\/a> each scored goals and the three-time Stanley Cup champion teammates are headed back to Pittsburgh after they helped the Penguins avoid a\u00a0first-round series\u00a0sweep with a 4-2 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/philadelphia-flyers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"philadelphia-flyers\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in Game 4 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is Monday in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Rickard Rakell also scored, and Connor Dewar sealed the win with a late empty-netter for the Penguins. Penguins coach Dan Muse made the right call with the season on the line to bench starting goalie Stuart Skinner in favor of Arturs Silovs.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old Crosby, a career-long foil for the Flyers, not only scored his first goal of the series, but he also set a savvy screen in the third period on defenseman Travis Sanheim that allowed Letang to have a clean look when he ripped his first goal of the series past Dan Vladar for a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was crucial after Travis Konecny scored to make it 3-2 and ignite the \u201cLet&#8217;s go Flyers!\u201d chants that had largely been dormant with the Flyers down early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Sidney Crosby and Kris Letang each scored goals and the three-time Stanley Cup champion teammates are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-629206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}