The Washington Capitals took a stranglehold on the Metro Division semifinals Monday night beating the Flyers 6-2 in Philadelphia. However that game itself coming out of last night wasn’t really the story, it was the fans in Philly who continued to live up to their embarrassing stereotype.
Late in the third period, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare of the Flyers drove Capitals defenseman Dmitry Orlov’s head into the boards sparking a brawl which isn’t out of the ordinary late in a blowout playoff game. Not to mention Bellemare’s hit was about as dirty as you can get though out the course of the hockey game. However while Orlov lay on the ground – who at the time no one really knew if the guy had a broken neck or not – fans began to shower the ice with light up wrist bands handed out prior to the game. In fact one fan evan had gall to chuck one at Orlov’s head while he got his bearings in order.
Here’s the Inquirer with more:
In their first home game after the death of Ed Snider – their founder, owner, and chairman – the Flyers and their followers put on a display that manifested the worst instincts within themselves and validated the worst stereotypes about them. They embarrassed themselves, all of them, in every possible way. When spectators scream during a pregame moment of silence for a team’s patriarch – as several Flyers fans did Monday – and it’s not the most graceless, dishonorable episode of the night, that’s telling. The Flyers ignited a melee with 7 minutes, 43 seconds left in regulation, and from that point until the final buzzer, they took 39 minutes in penalties. The Capitals took none, and they scored two power-play goals, and they could chuckle and gloat as the maintenance crews swept up the wristbands in front of their bench.
Oh yeah, those wristbands given out, they were in honor of the Flyers owner Ed Snider who passed away last week. Unsurprising though the filth of Philadelphia would end up taking a memorial giveaway into a city wide face palm.
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