FLYERS NEWS

The Orange and Black are really rolling now. After a crucial victory in game two on Sunday, the Flyer's returned home for game 3 tonight and continued to thrash the Capitals. The defense continued its gritty play, allowing Washington just 19 shots on goal and Marty Biron put forth another solid effort, allowing just 3 goals on those 19 shots. Late in the first period of play Danny Briere put the Flyer's on the board first for a 1-0 lead. Then about a minute later, Eric Fehr briefly tied it at 1 for Washington before Scotty Hartnell, and Sami Kapanen each scored late goals within seconds of each other for a 3-2 Flyer's lead. Early in the second period of play, Mike Green scored on the power play to cut the lead to 3-2. Then late in the period Briere answered with a power play goal of his own to push the lead to 4-2. Late in the 3rd period of play, Brooks Laich scored to cut the lead to 4-3, to briefly reignite Washington's victory hopes, but Mike Richards scored two minutes later to quickly extinguish those hopes and push the lead to 5-3. Mike Knuble then put the nail in the Caps coffin with an empty netter to cap off a 6-3 Flyer's victory with just over a minute to play. So the Flyers take a 2 games to 1 lead in the series and will be in good shape if they win game 4 on Thursday.