{"id":240714,"date":"2026-04-28T01:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/penguins-avoid-elimination-serious-sidney-crosby-injury-in-milestone-game-5-win-over-flyers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:47:07","slug":"penguins-avoid-elimination-serious-sidney-crosby-injury-in-milestone-game-5-win-over-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/penguins-avoid-elimination-serious-sidney-crosby-injury-in-milestone-game-5-win-over-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguins avoid elimination, serious Sidney Crosby injury in milestone Game 5 win over Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/pittsburgh_penguins\/96\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> aren&#8217;t going quietly.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Penguins avoided elimination in their first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/teams\/philadelphia_flyers\/95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> with a 3-2 Game 5 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Team captain Sidney Crosby, who recorded his 100th postseason victory with the Penguins, also avoided serious injury after suffering a scare in the second period when he took a hit to the thigh, forcing him to leave the ice for the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner returned and finished with two assists over 25 shifts, helping force a Game 6 in Philadelphia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2>Penguins avoid elimination with 3-2 Game 5 win over Flyers<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/penguins_avoid_elimination_serious_sidney_crosby_injury_in_milestone_game_5_win_over_flyers\/s1_13132_43780521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pittsburgh Penguins aren&#8217;t going quietly. On Monday, the Penguins avoided elimination in their first-round Stanley Cup playoffs series versus the Philadelphia Flyers with a 3-2 Game 5 win.\u00a0 Team captain Sidney Crosby, who recorded his 100th postseason victory with the Penguins, also avoided serious injury after suffering a scare in the second period when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-240714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}