The Penguins earn their most lopsided win ever to this point at the Philadelphia Spectrum thanks to a solid, 60-minute team effort. The high compete factor was no doubt influenced by some ill-advised remarks the day before by Flyers’ defenseman Terry Carkner. “If we play the way we’re capable of playing, we should dominate them,” he told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “They’re a lot smaller than us. We should be able to physically keep them down for 60 minutes. It should be an easy game.”
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The remarks were pinned up in the Penguins dressing room before the game, and they had an effect. “I think everybody took a look at it and it sunk in,” Kevin Stevens told the Pittsburgh Press. “I don’t know why he would pipe up like that.”
Pittsburgh outskated and outhustled the Flyers in the first and emerged with a 2-0 lead on goals by Stevens and Rob Brown. Carkner decided to do some talking with his stick, bringing the Flyers within one early in the second, but Pens big guy Jay Caulfield answered back less than a minute later. That was the end of Philly on this night in a game that turned out to be an easy one…for the Pens, of course.
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