FLYERS NEWS

The losing streak that wouldn't go away, didn't tonight as the Montreal Canadiens stretched it to six despite a superb effort by the Flyers. Sometimes all out effort is trumped by luck and that's exactly what happened tonight. Defensivly, the Flyers held Montreal to just 20 shots on goal while spraying 34 shots at Habs goalie Carey Price. Of the 20 shots he faced Antero Niittymaki saved 19 of them. Normally, in this day and age when you hold a team to 20 shots and 1 goal, you end up on the winning side of things. Tonight, as would luck have it, that one goal scored by Montreal was the game winner. In the first period of play, neither team could light the lamp. Early in the second period of play Alexsandr Kastsitsyn scored what proved to be both the only goal of the night and the game winner for a 1-0 Canadiens lead. Finally in the 3rd period of play, both teams failed to light the lamp as the Montreal closed out its 1-0 win. So the Flyers drop to 30-23-5 overall, but remain in 3rd place in the Atlantic division.