Sidney Crosby reacts to the first embellishment penalty of his 21-year career

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The Philadelphia Flyers took a pretty handy 5-2 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Wednesday night's Game 3 to take a commanding 3-0 series lead, but there was plenty to talk about, including the first embellishment penalty of Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby's career.

...No, you read that correctly.

Coming into the game, Crosby had played 21 NHL seasons and had never gotten the gate for embellishment, until a bizarre sequence between whistles.

Penguins captain Sidney Crosby lies on the ice after catching a high stick from Flyers forward Garnet Hathaway. He was also assessed a minor penalty for embellishment. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Flyers forward (and top-tier agitator, it must be said) Garnet Hathaway skated between Crosby and the linesman ahead of a faceoff in the Flyers' defensive zone and was, let's just say, "Careless" with his lumber.

There was no doubt it caught the Pens' captain in the face, but there was also no doubt that it wasn't hard enough to send Crosby sprawling to the ice as if a sniper had fired from the rafters.

Both were sent to the box, and the game continued at 4-on-4.

After the game, Crosby offered his reaction to that incident and to another scrum involving teammate Bryan Rust a bit later that resulted in a Flyers power play and a power play goal.

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"I don't know how Rusty ends up with the extra [penalty] out of all of that, I don't know how I end up with the embellishment," he said. "It's hard to understand, but you gotta play through that."

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