FLYERS NEWS

While the Sixers have been streaking in the right direction, the Flyers are now streaking in the wrong direction, with this their 2nd straight loss. Despite yet another hat trick from Joffrey Lupul, the Flyers fell to the Carolina Hurricanes for the 1st time this season as the game went into a shootout and Marty Biron came up short allowing all 3 Hurricanes shooters to score, and that after having allowed five goals in regulation. As for the game it was exciting, well at least until the crushing climax. Lupul gave the Flyers the early 1-0 lead in the 1st period, but late goals in the period by Niclas Wallin and Scott Walker made it 2-1 Canes heading into the 2nd period. Matt Cullen made it 3-1 Canes early in the 2nd period, but Scott Hartnell and Lupul with his 2nd goal answered to tie it at three. Then late in the period Eric Staal made it 4-3 Canes. Daniel Briere scored early in the 3rd period to tie at 4. Scott Letowksi made it 5-4 Canes midway through the 3rd, and finally Lupul answered with his 3rd goal to tie it at 5 and send the game into overtime. The overtime period was scoreless and the game lurched into a decisive shootout. There, Daniel Briere made key mistake missing his shot on the opening round of the shootout. Allowing the Canes to go for the win in the 3rd round of the shootout(after Cullen and Jeff Hamilton were successful for the Canes in the 1st two rounds of the shootout). Accordingly Rod Brindamour, the former Flyer took the puck for the final round of the shootout and clanked a shot off the post and Biron's shoulder pad, and into the net for the win, capping off a 6-5 victory for the Canes. So the Flyers drop to 16-11-3 overall, and into a tie for 2nd place in the Atlantic division with the NY Rangers.