It is, under normal circumstances, a lot like sticking two scorpions in a bottle.
Maybe two rattlesnakes in a sack.
Or two wolverines in a cage. A small cage.
Except perhaps a bit nastier. OK, a lot nastier.
When the Penguins and Flyers are forced to share a slab of ice, as they will at today at Wells Fargo Center, the only things higher than the intensity and emotion tend to be elbows and sticks.
“It’s quite the rivalry,” Penguins center Sidney Crosby said Friday.
That’s true — most of the time. But Crosby’s assessment probably qualifies as an understatement, given what’s at stake when the Penguins face the Flyers three times in their final 12 regular-season games.