After their dramatic matinee victory over the Bruins yesterday the Flyers looked to keep it going this afternoon in Atlanta against the Thrashers. Coming in the Flyers had won 13 in a row against the Thrashers, and goalie Antero Niittymaki, who not surprisingly got the start in goal, was a perfect 12-0 against Atlanta. After another 29 saves and 2 more goals from Jeff Carter the Flyers had won 14 in a row against the Thrashers and Niittymaki was a perfect 13-0 against Atlanta. Early in the 1st period Carter scored his first for a 1-0 lead. Early in the 2nd period Joffrey Lupul made it 2-0. Early in the 3rd period Carter scored his 2nd for a 3-0 lead. A few minutes later Ilya Kovalchuk scored on the power play to cut the lead to 3-1. Late in the period Slava Kozlov scored yet another power play goal to cut the lead to 3-2. From there Niittymaki ensured the Thrashers would not get the equalizer, as the orange and black hung on for the 3-2 win. So the Flyers improve to 28-15-9 overall for 65 points and now 4th in the Eastern conference.
2 comments:
Its good to see the Flyers have something going now because the Eastern Conference seems to leave them behind when they get in a slump, now all they have to do is keep it up.
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yeah that is all they need to do right now
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