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Penguins, Flyers go to a hockey game and...what's that joke again?

You remember the old joke about the guy who went to see a fight and was surprised when a hockey game broke out? Yeah, welcome to Game Three of the playoff series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers.

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There is no doubt that the teams do not like each other, but tensions ran, well, high seems like too light a word after the Flyers beat the Pens handily twice in Pittsburgh. What do you call the situation where you know a huge fight is going to break out at the slightest provocation, like a standoff between two gangs of gunmen in a restaurant that explodes into gunshots when a surprised waiter drops a tray of dishes? Well, someone dropped the dishes in the first period, which gave both teams all the reason they needed to drop the gloves.

And that was the first brawl. In all, officials handed out 72 minutes worth of penalties in the first period alone including game misconduct penalties (which in hockey-speak means the referee tossed three players out of the game). One of those players was tough-guy Arron Asham, who earned his ejection for this cheap-shot.

All of that, however, was mere prelude to the grand melee that erupted late in the third period after the Penguins’ James Neal leveled the Flyers’ Sean Couturier then went after star forward Claude Giroux. Yet more ejections and a truckload of penalty minutes later, this is how Twitter reacted.

https://twitter.com/#!/crousselle/status/191646871578619905

https://twitter.com/#!/SWhyno/status/191647017188081665

https://twitter.com/#!/DrewMTips/status/191646943682904064

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https://twitter.com/#!/russianmachine/status/191646754746273793

https://twitter.com/#!/MbernadetteE/status/191647273392943106

https://twitter.com/#!/Russostrib/status/191647647998803969

This, by the way, was a very small sample. Our Twitter timeline was spinning like the tumblers on a slot machine as officials tried desperately to remind both teams that they were in the NHL Playoffs, not Wrestlemania.

The NBC network, which televised this debacle, seemed pretty pleased that it and the NHL got a couple trending topic out of the day. So there’s that.

Team defense has also taken a hit in the series, which has provided plenty of goals. Did I say “plenty”? I meant almost half the goals scored in all the playoff games to date.

 

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