h Pittsburgh on the brink of being sweep, leading the Penguins to a 10-3 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday night in the first-round Eastern Conference series.Staal had a hat trick, Malkin scored his first two goals of the series, and Crosby added one to help the Penguins cut the Flyers' series lead to 3-1. Game 5 is Friday night in Pittsburgh.Marc-Andre Fleury settled down after a shaky first period and had his best game of the series, easily outplaying counterpart Ilya Bryzgalov.Matt Niskanen, Kris Letang, Steve Sullivan and Pascal Dupuis also scored for Philadelphia. After the Flyers took a 3-2 lead, the Penguins scored eight straight goals to become the first team to score at least 10 goals in a playoff game since Los Angeles had 12 against Calgary in April 1990, according to STATS LLC.Claude Giroux, Kimmo Timonen and Jakub Voracek scored for the Flyers. Bryzgalov was replaced by Sergei Bobrovsky after allowing Pittsburgh's fifth goal.
KENNEWICK,Nike Free 5.0 LuckGreen, Wash. - Tri-City's Brendan Shinnimin has scored a lot of goals this season, but none bigger than the game-winner Wednesday night in Game 7 against the Spokane Chiefs.Shinnimin scored with 4:18 left in regulation to lead the Americans into the Western Hockey League's Western Conference final with a 3-2 victory over the Chiefs. Shinnimin took a pass from Brian Williams and beat Spokane goalie Eric Williams from the slot."Words can't really describe the feeling of that (goal) going in, and the feeling of our team after the game," Shinnimin said. "A lot of people might have thought it wouldn't have been this many games, but the guys in our room knew what they were capable of and what kind of team they were."Tri-City advanced to play Portland, which defeated Kamloops 2-0 in Game 7 of their semifinal series. The Blazers,Nike Free Run Orange, who rallied from a 3-0 deficit to tie the series at 3-3,Lebron 10 MVP, fell short in knocking off the Winterhawks.The victory gave the Americans their first playoff series victory over Spokane since 1995."If you caught one of these games, you were treated to some of the best junior hockey entertainment you are going to see," Tri-City coach Jim Hiller said. "Both teams did everything they could. What else can you ask?"There wasn't one shift in the last 12 days or seven games that either team could have relaxed. Every game was decided by one goal �� two goals was the empty net. No team had a lead of more than two goals. There was not once where you thought it was over."Spokane coach Don Nachbaur was on the winning end of this same series last year, but his team couldn't hold on this time around."It was pretty intense," Nachbaur said. "It would have been a Cinderella story, where we finished and how young we are in certain areas of our team. We took them to the well. I know they are over there saying this wasn't an easy series. I think we took a lot out of them for the next series."Tied at 1-1 after the second period, Mitch Holmberg put the Chiefs out front 2-1 with a goal at 5:47 of the third.Spokane held onto the lead until late in the period when Tri-City��s