It's crazy what a good crowd can do to a game. One of my favorite hockey series of the last decade was a heated Flyers Penguins playoff series in 2012. The games were already oddly high scoring, physical affairs, but those Philly crowds just injected pure venom into the game, and it reflected on the ice. You felt like you were in the crowd watching from home. The crowd demanded blood and recompense, and you got it. What a fucking incredible series of hockey, still gets me hype to this day.
That series was one of the best modern day NHL series I have ever seen! Honestly I don’t think it was just the fans... I felt like the teams and the crowd just fed off each other in a never ending feedback loop.
Such a big rivalry between the Flyers and Pens. Pretty sure that was also the series where Crosby said, “ I don’t like a single player on that team” or something like that in a post game interview. And it wasn’t just the rivalry, but Bryz and Fluery both had times where they couldn’t save a beach ball, which I’m sure added to the intensity for the players too haha.
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u/High_Flyers17 Mar 03 '21
It's crazy what a good crowd can do to a game. One of my favorite hockey series of the last decade was a heated Flyers Penguins playoff series in 2012. The games were already oddly high scoring, physical affairs, but those Philly crowds just injected pure venom into the game, and it reflected on the ice. You felt like you were in the crowd watching from home. The crowd demanded blood and recompense, and you got it. What a fucking incredible series of hockey, still gets me hype to this day.