Watch: Penguins goalie has meltdown after getting benched mid-game

Things aren't going well for the Pittsburgh Penguins lately. Having fallen out of playoff contention and set to miss the postseason for the third straight year, they're in the early stages of a rebuild.

They also entered Thursday's game against the Philadelphia Flyers on a four-game losing streak, having just been embarrassed by their cross-state rivals earlier in the week.

Thursday's game did not start off much better as they allowed the first three goals of the game. After the third goal, the Penguins made the decision to bench Alex Nedeljkovic, replacing him with rookie Joel Blomqvist.

That did not sit well with the veteran Nedeljkovic.

Before leaving the bench, he smashed his goalie stick over the crossbar, launched the remaining piece of it into the corner of the ice, slammed the door to the bench and appeared to scream at somebody on the bench.

Was it head coach Mike Sullivan? Was it his teammates? Was it both?

Either way, he was livid.