Flyers and Lightning pile up after Callahan & Voracek trade cheap shots.

Things get ugly between the Flyers and the Lightning.

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Flyers and Lightning pile up after Callahan & Voracek trade cheap shots.

The Saturday afternoon match up between the Philadelphia Flyers and Tampa Bay Lightning appeared like it would be an ugly blowout by the Lightning, but in the final half of the game's final period things got absolutely wild. Not only did the Lightning's 5 - 1 lead over the Flyers completely evaporate, with the Flyers rattling off 4 consecutive goals that were capped off by a late goal from Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds that eventually forced overtime, but things also got rather physical as well.

Perhaps it was this sequence that suddenly lit a fire under the Philadelphia Flyers and if it was the Lightning probably will not be all that happy with veteran forward Ryan Callahan who appeared to set the entire thing off. The Lightning were up by 4 goals with just barely over 10:00 minutes left in the game when Callahan decided to cross the line and take some pretty ugly liberties with 22 year old Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom. Callahan delivered a solid open ice hit to Lindblom but appeared to dislike the fact that the young Flyers forward had managed to largely shrug off the blow, so Callahan reward him with a stiff sucker punch right on the mouth. Lindblom's head rocked back from the sucker punch and he could be seen favoring his mouth as he fell to the ice, but it was not long at all before the Flyers themselves would retaliate. 

Flyers forward Jakub Voracek must have seen Lindblom's head rock back from the punch because he came into the mix with bad intentions of his own. Voracek came in with a strong stride and delivered a rather hard looking cross check to the back of Callahan, a blow that Callahan understandably seemed to react to quite negatively based on the curvature of his back following the blow. 

It was at that moment that all hell broke loose and a number of players rushed in to literally pile onto Lindblom and Callahan who were already down on the ice by the time that everyone started leaping in. In spite of that however no one seemed to get seriously hurt, although perhaps both Lindblom and Callahan would disagree.

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