FLYERS NEWS

The orange and black rode a 3 game winning streak into this afternoon's matinee in New York against the Rangers. Unfortunately, that streak ended today, despite yet another valiant effort from the fly guys. Still, the Flyer's appear to have mended whatever was troubling them just in time for a playoff run. In the first period of play Vinny Prospal and Martin Straka traded early goals for a 1-1 tie. A couple minutes later Braydon Coburn scored for a 2-1 Flyers lead. Then Late in the period Fredrik Sjostrom and Ryan Callahan each scored for New York within a couple minutes of each other to forge a 3-2 Ranger's lead. Finally, Jeff Carter scored a couple minutes later to knot it up again at 3. Early in the 3rd period Cristian Backman scored for a 4-3 Ranger's lead. Late in the 3rd period Jeff Carter scored again to tie it up at 4. From there neither team scored again until the game had lurched into a shootout. There Kimmo Timonen failed to score for the Flyers and Brendan Shanahan was successful for New York in the first round. Finally, in the second round of the shootout Nigel Dawes was successful for New York, so it came down to Jeff Carter again to keep the game alive, and he like Timonen was unsuccessful. So the Rangers got the win 5-4 and the Flyers took the loss, but since they earned a point for losing in overtime, they remain in 4th place in the Atlantic division and actually jump to 7th in the Eastern Conference.