FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers downhill run continued today against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Of the all the teams you would expect to continue the Flyer's losing streak, the Lightning, dead last in the Eastern Conference coming, are last team you would suspect would be capable of doing so, but tonight they were. Early on everything seemed headed in the Flyers' direction. Marty Biron saved 12 of 13 shots he faced in the first period of play, and the Flyers jumped out to a 2-1 lead as Joffrey Lupul and Steve Downie each scored late goals to answer an early goal by former Flyer Vaclav Prospal. In the 2nd period Tampa Bay turrned things around and it was all down hill there. Dan Boyle scored early in the period for 2-2 tie. Then late in the period John Havlac and Martin St.Louis each scored for a 4-2 Lightning lead. It would be all they would need for victory. John Ward scored early in the 3rd period for a 5-2 Tampa Bay lead and that was about all she wrote. A few minutes Later Jeff Carter scored to cut the lead to 5-3, and give momentary hope, but the Flyers never scored again and eventually lost 5-3. So the Flyers drop t0 30-22-5 overall, but remain in the 3rd place in the Atlantic division.