Pens vs. Flyers 4/7

Dave and I went to the last regular season home game on Saturday. The Pens clinched the 4th seed in the playoffs and we knew that the first round was going to be Pens vs. Flyers with the Flyers being the 5th seed. So we weren't expecting a huge game. It turned out pretty well though! We saw Malkin score his 50th goal this season, and the Pens won. There was only one fight and things were calmer than they usually would be when we play the Flyers. It's a big rivalry with a lot of animosity, for both the players and the fans.

The first round of the playoffs makes me nervous. The Flyers are tough this year.

Bye bye, Mellon Arena. :(

Dave before the game

Geno's parents- his mom is in the striped sweater and his dad is to the left of her

With some Flyers fans before the game

There were a lot of Flyers fans at the game. The Phillies were also in town to play the Pirates and a lot of people from Philadephia seemed to take advantage of that. When these guys showed up behind us, Dave told me not to turn around. (He didn't want me to say anything to the other fans haha.) I said, oh I should get my picture with them! And Dave said he would if I was serious. I hadn't been but I decided, why not? So I asked them for a picture and of course they immediately said what are you going to do to the picture. LOL! I promised nothing (although thanks, guys, what a good idea). They were pretty nice and admitted that their fans are pretty bad to opposing players fans. I told them I will never go to a game in Philadelphia because of that. (They told me if we ever did to sit in the lower level.) And I was probably the nicest Pens fan they saw all day. As they walked away we heard people booing them. Dave posted this picture on Facebook and surprisingly I didn't really get much crap about it. Just from a few people over text because Dave also texted it to our friends. We thought it was funny. And you can see in my face the, "Am I really doing this??" and trying not to just laugh.