FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers continued their road trip tonight as they traveled to Columbus for a faceoff with the Blue Jackets. Coming into tonight the Flyers had never lost to the Blue Jackets in their history. However, Blue Jackets goalie Steve Mason changed all that history saving all of the measly 20 shots he faced on goal to power the Jackets to a historic win. The Flyers were simply both tired, thanks to some flight scheduling issues, and a bit shorthanded as Kimmo Timonen joined Scottie Upshall among the Flyers on injured reserve. Clearly they were just too out of gas for this one. The Blue Jackets league worst power play even scored a goal, which shows just how weary the Flyers must have been tonight. Early in the first period Jan Hejda scored for a 1-0 Jackets lead. Late in the period Andrew Murray scored for a 2-0 lead. Finally early in the 2nd period Manny Maholtra scored for a 3-0 Jackets lead. From there the weary Flyers could muster no offensivee push whatsoever and fell by that score. So the orange and black drop to 19-10-7 overall, but remain 4th in the Eastern conference and 2nd in the Atlantic division still just 2 points behind the Rangers. Hopefully they will better rested before their next game.