Fourteen years ago today, Max Talbot’s infamous ‘shhhh’ moment became a viral sensation, and Sidney Crosby and the Penguins silenced a raucous Wachovia Center in Philadelphia en route to a berth in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
It was a rowdy Saturday afternoon in the City of Brotherly Love as the Penguins came out flat in Game 6 in the first round of the 2009 playoffs.
The Flyers were in cruise control, up 3-0, and it seemed like things were going to be heading back to Pittsburgh for a Game 7.
But then Max Talbot happened.