PHILADELPHIA — This article originally appeared on PGHHockeyNOW.com.
The Pittsburgh Penguins (1-0-0) dominated the Philadelphia Flyers (0-1-1).
For Penguins fans, that sentence might be one of the most satisfying. For the Penguins players, filling the net and more than doubling the shots of their arch rivals, who ended their Cinderella season last May, was the satisfying part.
A couple of first-period goals begot three more second-period tallies and thousands of angry Flyers fans who let loose a consistent chorus of boos as the Penguins scored three more goals and controlled the game en route to a 7-0 win at Xfinity Mobile Arena Wednesday.
Each member of the Penguins’ third line scored. The line was thrown together in the final days of preseason as injuries to the forward crew mounted, but Ville Koivunen, Filip Hallander and Hendrix Lapierre lit the lamp.
Koivunen’s goal was especially pretty as he deked Vladar on a breakaway in the first period.
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