{"id":648072,"date":"2026-05-17T05:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T05:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:47:09","slug":"flyers-fan-immortalizes-sidney-crosbys-first-ever-playoff-dive-with-paint-outline-on-the-ice-at-xfinity-mobile-arena-rip-bozo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/648072\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers fan immortalizes Sidney Crosby\u2019s first-ever playoff dive with paint outline on the ice at Xfinity Mobile Arena: \u2018RIP Bozo\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sidney Crosby<\/a> was whistled for the first embellishment penalty of his 21-season career<\/a> against the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> in the first round of this year\u2019s playoffs.<\/p>\n

The milestone moment for the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> captain occurred in Game 3 of the series against the Flyers, and it\u2019s clear that Philly sports fans aren\u2019t going to let Crosby forget about it any time soon.<\/p>\n

The Flyers, eliminated in the second round by the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, recently let their fans paint on the ice at their home arena, Xfinity Mobile Arena, and one fan made sure to paint Crosby\u2019s dramatic display onto the exact spot of the ice where it happened.<\/p>\n

The resulting painting, which I\u2019m going to call a fine piece of art, was posted to X by user\u00a0@_katecarr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Sidney\ud83d\udcf8: @_katecarr\/X<\/a><\/p>\n

The half-black, half-orange outline donned the left circle of the offensive zone where Crosby tried to draw a call on Flyers forward Garnet Hathaway<\/a>. Just above the prone portrait, the artist wrote \u201cEmbellishment 2:00 minutes\u201d and \u201cR.I.P BOZO,\u201d fitting for what became a rivalry series full of back-and-forth trolling<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The funny jab comes after Crosby and the Penguins threw a muted tantrum after the call was made. They saw their request to speak with the series supervisor of officials declined.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a single embellishment all year,\u201d Penguins head coach Dan Muse\u00a0said<\/a>. \u201cSidney Crosby doesn\u2019t have an embellishment in 21 seasons. Stick\u2019s in his face, they take both of them. I disagree on that strongly\u2026 Sid doesn\u2019t embellish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby was held off the scoresheet in three of the six games against the Flyers. He finished under a point per game with five points (1g, 4a) in his first playoff action since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sidney Crosby was whistled for the first embellishment penalty of his 21-season career against the Philadelphia Flyers in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-648072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}