FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers continued to go in the wrong direction tonight, with their third loss in a row, this time at the hands of Marty Brodeur and the New Jersey Devils. It started slow with a scoreless first period. Then after Mike Richards scored a power play goal to give the Flyers the 1-0 lead early in the 2nd period, the Devils exploded for 3 goals(2 by John Madden, 1 by Arron Asham) for a 3-2 lead heading into the 3rd period. There, Daniele Briere scored an early power play goal to cut the Devils lead to 3-2. Unfortunately, try as they might the Flyers could not get the equalizer to force the game into overtime. In desperation they pulled Antero Niittymaki from the goal(starting in the place of the now struggling Marty Biron), in favor of the extra attacker. The Devils and Brodeur snuffed it out though, and Jamie Langenbrunner scored on the Flyers empty net to put it away for good. So the Devils won 4-2 and the Flyers lost to drop to 16-12-3 overall, still good enough though for 2nd place in the Atlantic division.