Hakstol Admits Making Big Mistake In Game 3.

After bouncing back in a huge way during Game 2 and sending a message, the Philadelphia Flyers let things fall apart again during Game 3. The team had a nice jump and start, but threw the game out the window with eight penalties, seven of them being stick infractions. While penalties played a huge part of giving the game away, head coach Dave Hakstol also feels there's something he could have done that would have possibly changed momentum of the game. After Pittsburgh scored their third goal, a timeout should have probably been taken to calm things down, it never was. "I should have taken a timeout after the third, after the third goal," Hakstol said. "Hindsight is 20/20, you don't get it back. You always want to save that timeout because I felt like we were playing well. We had a bad stretch, we dug a little bit of a hole, but I had no doubt that we could come back and dig our way out of that hole."
With no timeout taken, it only took Sidney Crosby five seconds after the third goal to set up the Penguins fourth. "You want to save that timeout for the critical time at the end of the game," Hakstol said. "Well, go home with it in your back pocket and what good does it do you? That would have been one thing to stop that momentum because that 4-on-4 goal … now you're in a real deep hole, that's tough to come back from."Could the timeout have possibly calmed things down and kept the Flyers in the game?