{"id":65488,"date":"2025-06-07T21:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/65488\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T21:35:26","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-unleash-hulk-hogan-flyer-mania-on-humbled-penguins-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/65488\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers unleash Hulk Hogan, \u2018Flyer Mania\u2019 on humbled Penguins (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The odd connection between the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers and Hulk Hogan was forged <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nhl-puck-daddy\/penguins-flyers-set-stage-potential-playoff-matchup-line-203738329.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:during the April 1 line brawl;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the April 1 line brawl<\/a> between the teams in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/malkamania71\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cy Clark;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cy Clark<\/a>, a Penguins fan who attends games dressed like the Hulkster, got into it with often-hilarious Flyers forward Scott Hartnell, who responded by giving him the &#8216;ole Hulk Hogan gesture to the crowd, waving his hand around before cupping ear to better hear him.<\/p>\n<p>Playing off that moment, the Flyers issued T-shirts to their fans before Game 3 that featured Hartnell with his <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/nhl-puck-daddy\/flyers-game-3-giveaway-inspired-hartnell-hulk-hogan-161331806.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:hand to his ear and the slogan &quot;WHATCHA GONNA DO?&quot;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hand to his ear and the slogan &#8220;WHATCHA GONNA DO?&#8221;<\/a> Yes, very clever; but it wasn&#8217;t the only Hogan-inspired moment of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers got the man himself to cut a promo on the Penguins:<\/p>\n<p>Oh, as if Flyers fans have needed to say any prayers with Marc-Andre Fleury (of pucks behind him) across the ice this series \u2026<\/p>\n<p>So there you go: Hulk Hogan, Philadelphia Flyers hype man. <a href=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lpunfcmcYQ1r0toreo1_500.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Well, at least when the Tampa Bay Lightning aren&#039;t in the playoffs,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Well, at least when the Tampa Bay Lightning aren&#8217;t in the playoffs,<\/a> bruther \u2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The odd connection between the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers and Hulk Hogan was forged during the April 1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,13354,4,1467,56,5205,100,3168,2589],"class_list":{"0":"post-65488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-hulk-hogan","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","15":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","16":"tag-scott-hartnell","17":"tag-the-flyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/114644236844773186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}