# Pens versus Flyers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645 "2000-05-05T05:46:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/1 "2000-05-05T05:46:13Z")
They’re in their **fourth overtime**! 1:47am Eastern! How much longer can this go on?! It’s just going to come down to which goalie falls down from exhaustion first! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/2 "2000-05-05T06:17:21Z")
They’re in the **fifth** overtime! How can these guys keep going?! ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/3 "2000-05-05T06:37:12Z")
Shit. Shit shit shit shit shit. Can I say that here? ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/4 "2000-05-05T08:49:16Z")
\>\>\>Rilchiam wrote: “Shit. Shit shit shit shit shit.”\<\<\< I second that motion. Now the Pens will probably fold up like a card table. I’ve seen that fish before. Someday I’m gonna get me a REAL hockey team. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/5 "2000-05-05T11:26:52Z")
**[Philly accent]** Yea! Fly Guys win! **[/Philly accent]** ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/6 "2000-05-05T19:24:00Z")
It was like I said; it came down to which goalie burned out first. The Pens goalie just looked dazed when the puck went past him, and at that point I didn’t blame him. Bet there were a lot of stragglers in the Burgh this morning! But I won’t think about the Pens “folding like a card table”. Maybe they’ll come back MEAN! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/7 "2000-05-05T19:35:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > It was like I said; it came down to which goalie burned out first. The Pens goalie just looked dazed when the puck went past him, and at that point I didn’t blame him. > > Bet there were a lot of stragglers in the Burgh this morning! > > But I won’t think about the Pens “folding like a card table”. Maybe they’ll come back MEAN! > \*\* Amen. f\*\*k those damn flyers and their 7 hour win. I tried to stay up last night but at the end of the 3rd OT I had to go to bed. Anyone else watch the 4OT game back in 96 when Nedved scored the winning goal? I was a spry 23-year-old back then and was able to stay awake for that one. 7 hours of hockey is just brutal. Ol’ Nut Tugger had 72 SOG against him. JESUS! ---
**Author:** ![GoSensGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@GoSensGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoSensGo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/8 "2000-05-05T22:04:20Z")
I thought that was a hell of a game. Mind you, I went to bed at 1 am, figuring that the game would still be going when I got up at 7 😉 Looks like we’ll have an update on our SCP thread soon enough though… Go Avs! ---
**Author:** ![MysterEcks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MysterEcks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysterEcks)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/9 "2000-05-06T08:13:52Z")
Peter Taglianetti, one of the Pen’s broadcasters, was rooting for it to break the record–116 OT, which is to say 16 minutes into the SIXTH overtime. Now THAT would have been something. ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pens-versus-flyers/18645/10 "2000-05-06T18:14:16Z")
That game ruled! I watched the whole thing even though I had Physics class at 8am that morning! I don’t think Tugnutt was dazed and confused on that last goal, I just thing that no one expected a shot that hard! That thing was a bullet!