Past playoff series between these cross-state rivals have featured donnybrooks, suspensions, chaos and mayhem.
This one? Not so much.
Save for Claude Giroux colliding with Kris Letang in Game 2 and, maybe, maybe, Matt Read slashing the back of Derick Brassard’s legs at the end of Game 4, this latest installment of Penguins-Flyers has been, well, kind of tame.
It’s not at all what was expected from this matchup between Nos. 2 and 3 seeds. It’s been tame even by the standards of the seven other first-round playoff series that are either underway or have concluded.
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