Vengeance Soon!

Well, well! The Flyers polished off the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night and will take on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals. It’s the closest a Philadelphia sports team has been to a championship since the Eagles lost the Super Bowl in 2005.

The Flyers have already beaten the game’s one young superstar, Alex “Blowback Chicken” Ovechkin, and beat Canada’s team of destiny in Montreal. What’s one more superstar — Sidney Crosby, aka the whining brat (note: I don’t know anything about Crosby I’m just assuming he’s a whiner because he’s a star hockey player in 2008) — to take down in a seven-game series?

The leader of the Flyers this series was none other than R.J. Umberger, who had two goals in the clinching game Saturday night. Archie Hamburger had eight goals in five games against Montreal; he only had 13 goals all season.

The series begins Friday out in Pittsburgh. Starting tomorrow, Philadelphia Will Do will be relentlessly bashing Pittsburgh all week in advance of the Flyers’ trip to the Stanley Cup Semifinals. Oh, this is going to be fun.

Flyers-Pens: Expect a punishing contest [Inquirer]