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Thursday, November 08, 2007

FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers finally ended their road trip tonight, fittingly in New Jersey against the Devils. Marty Biron has had great season thus far, but that wasn't the case tonight. If the Devils had a chance to get the puck by him tonight, they did, scoring 4 times with their first 15 shots, 3 of which in the 1st period alone. It got so bad that Antero Niittymaki replaced him in the 2nd period and oddly enough Niittymaki saved all 24 shots he faced the rest of the way, but it was to no avail as the Flyers scored only once on the night and had just 14 shots on goal. The Flyers actually led early 1-0, on a power play goal by Mike Knuble midway through the 1st period. From there it was all New Jersey. Brian Gionta scored to tie it at 1 2 minutes later. Then Dainius Zubrus, yes the former Flyer, scored twice in the next 5 minutes to put New Jersey up 3-1 after the 1st period. The Devils added a 4th goal early in the 2nd period and that was about all she wrote. From there, Niittymaki and Martin Brodeur shut it down the rest of the way and New Jersey got the win 4-1. So the Flyers drop to 9-6 overall, but that's still enough to keep them in first place in the Atlantic Division, barely. All I can say is thank god it's over and there's no place like home.

1 comment:

ph1llysports said...

Yes it is agood thing that its over, and yes there is no place like home