{"id":176253,"date":"2026-04-26T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:24:19","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-fail-to-complete-sweep-as-pittsburgh-penguins-force-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176253\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers fail to complete sweep as Pittsburgh Penguins force Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins avoid the sweep after a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers Saturday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Sidney Crosby put the Penguins out front early, scoring in the first period. Rickard Rakell extended the lead in the second, making it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>After the Flyers cut the deficit to 3-2, Connor Dewar scored late in the third period to seal the win and force Game 5, sending the series back to Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Penguins avoid the sweep after a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers Saturday night at Xfinity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46955,69,4845,73,75,74,1067],"class_list":["post-176253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-penguins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}