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PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Penguins look to take a shocking three games to none lead in their Eastern Conference Semifinal series with the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night (7 ET, ESPN) as the scene switches to Mellon Bank Arena.
A win in this series would be even more improbable than the Penguins' first-round triumph over the second-seeded Washington Capitals. The Penguins had lost 16 consecutive games at Philadelphia before a 2-0 win in Game 1 on Thursday. "I don't think anyone would have believed it if they had told us that beforehand," Penguins right wing Rob Brown said. "But we knew if we got great goaltending combined with the likes of a (Jaromir) Jagr, we were going to score a couple of goals and get a chance to go ahead."
Jagr, who wants to duplicate Penguins legend and current owner Mario Lemieux's feat of bringing the Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh, leads all playoff scorers with 13 points in seven games. The final minutes of Game Two featured numerous skirmishes as the Flyers tried to send a message before the series shifted to Western Pennsylvania. Rick Tocchet, Luke Richardson and Craig Berube of Philadelphia all drew game misconducts. Winning in the second round has usually not been as easy for the Penguins, whose last trip to the conference finals came in 1996. Pittsburgh has killed all 10 power plays against a Philadelphia team that was second in the league during the season with the man advantage and 9-for-28 in the first round against Buffalo. The Flyers are 1-10 in playoff series after losing the first two
games. The only time they have won after dropping the initial
contests was the 1977 Stanley Cup quarterfinals against Toronto.
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