FLYERS NEWS

Well another game, another disheartening loss for the Flyers tonight in San Jose against the Sharks. This time they lead the Sharks 3-1 late in the 2nd period and could not hold it. Antero Niittymaki got another start and saved 40 shots out of the whopping 45 he faced. In fact the Flyers had just 17 shots on goal and were lucky to have any kind of lead at all late in the 2nd period, largely due to the brilliant play of Niittymaki. Danny Briere scored late in the first period for a 1-0 lead. Just seconds into the 2nd period Braydon Coburn scored for a 2-0 lead. Christian Erhoff answered a minute late for San Jose cutting the lead to 2-1. A few minutes later Jeff Carter scored for a 3-1 lead. Then with just over a minute left in the period Jonathan Cheecho scored to cut the lead to 3-2. Early in the 3rd period Joe Pavelski scored to knot it up at 3. Halfway through the period Briere scored his 2nd goal of the night for a 4-3 lead. Then with about 5 minutes to play Devin Setoguchi scored to knot it up again at 4. From there neither team could score again in regulation so the game went into overtime. There, just over a minute in ,Dan Boyle broke the Flyer's hearts scoring for the 5-4 Shark's victory. So the Flyers drop to 0-5 overall, okay officially 0-3-2, meaning 3 regulation losses and 2 overtime losses, for a whopping total of 2 points out of possible 10, tied for dead last in the NHL. Seriously,guys can't we do a little bit better.