My most memorable game: Phil Bourque

Installment No. 7 in an occasional series highlighting the most memorable game in which players participated as a member of the Penguins.

Player: Phil Bourque
Date: April 21, 1989
Game: Game 3 in second-round playoff series
Site: Spectrum, Philadelphia
Result: Penguins, 4-3 (overtime)
Three stars: 1) Penguins LW Phil Bourque. 2) Penguins G Tom Barrasso. 3) Flyers C Ron Sutter.

It is perfectly understandable that the final sequence of the game made an indelible impression on Bourque.

It's hard to imagine that it wouldn't have.

That Bourque wouldn't recall the way Robbie Brown, carrying the puck down the left side, eluded Mark Howe, Philadelphia's outstanding defenseman.

How Brown then slid the puck toward the Flyers' net, and how Bourque rapped it between the legs of goalie Ron Hextall to give the Penguins a 4-3 overtime victory in the Spectrum, where their grim legacy was headlined by a 15-year, 42-game winless streak that remains the most dispiriting stretch in franchise history: