Sidney Crosby reacts to the first embellishment penalty of his 21-year career

The Philadelphia Flyers took a beautiful useful 5-2 triumph complete nan Pittsburgh Penguins successful Wednesday night's Game 3 to return a commanding 3-0 bid lead, but location was plentifulness to talk about, including nan first embellishment punishment of Pittsburgh skipper Sidney Crosby's career.

...No, you publication that correctly.

Coming into nan game, Crosby had played 21 NHL seasons and had ne'er gotten nan crippled for embellishment, until a bizarre series betwixt whistles.

Penguins skipper Sidney Crosby lies connected nan crystal aft catching a precocious instrumentality from Flyers guardant Garnet Hathaway. He was besides assessed a insignificant punishment for embellishment. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Flyers guardant (and top-tier agitator, it must beryllium said) Garnet Hathaway skated betwixt Crosby and nan linesman up of a faceoff successful nan Flyers' protect area and was, let's conscionable say, "Careless" pinch his lumber.

There was nary uncertainty it caught nan Pens' captain successful nan face, but location was besides nary uncertainty that it wasn't difficult capable to nonstop Crosby sprawling to nan crystal arsenic a sniper had fired from nan rafters.

Both were sent to nan box, and nan crippled continued astatine 4-on-4.

After nan game, Crosby offered his guidance to that incident and to different scrum involving teammate Bryan Rust a spot later that resulted successful a Flyers powerfulness play and a powerfulness play goal.

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"I don't cognize really Rusty ends up pinch nan other [penalty] retired of each of that, I don't cognize really I extremity up pinch nan embellishment," he said. "It's difficult to understand, but you gotta play done that."

I mean... you did waste it a bit, Sid.

Now connected nan Rust situation? The Flyers did luck out.

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Sidney Crosby #87 of nan Pittsburgh Penguins skates against nan New York Rangers successful Game Seven of nan First Round of nan 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs astatine Madison Square Garden connected May 15, 2022 successful New York City.  (Photo by Jared Silber/NHLI via Getty Images)

But backmost to nan astir talked astir dive since nan days of Greg Louganis. During nan broadcast, it was revealed that this was Crosby's first-ever punishment for embellishment. Fortunatley, I wasn't drinking thing erstwhile I heard this because I would've choked connected it.

For 21 of my 30 years connected this glorious abstraction marble we telephone Earth, I've been tormented by Sidney Crosby, and a large portion of that was his penchant for diving and whining.

Now, he has benignant of grown retired of that, but it was specified a known point that f

Former Flyers goalie Brian Boucher alluded to his aged habits during TNT's broadcast of Game 3.

Hell, I retrieve reference successful erstwhile NHL referee Kerry Fraser's book astir this habit.

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Pittsburgh Penguins skipper Sidney Crosby talks to a linesman during Game 3 against nan Philadelphia Flyers, (© Eric Hartline-Imagn Images)

And still, this was nan first time?!

Unbelievable.

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While nan Penguins were not happy astir nan officiating — and I do deliberation they had a beautiful morganatic lawsuit connected that Rust incident — they can't beryllium hung up connected these things down 3-0.

The Flyers person been nan much coagulated squad each bid long, and that's why they person their cross-state rivals connected nan ropes going into Saturday night's Game 4 successful Philadelphia.