The Flyers traveled to Ottawa tonight for a matchup with the Senators. Coming in the Flyers could have a clinched a playoff spot with a win and for a while it looked like they would do just that. Then the wear of playing their 2nd game in as many nights, caught up to them and the win slipped away. Antero Niittymaki had a decent night in goal, saving 35 of the 38 shots he faced, but there would be no offensive onslaught on this night. Late in the first period Nick Foligno scored off the power play for a 1-0 Ottawa lead. Early in the 2nd period Chris Kelly scored for a 2-0 lead. Seconds later Darroll Powe scored to cut it to 2-1. Late in the period Mike Richards scored off the power play to knot it up at 2. Early in the 3rd period Simon Gagne scored for a 3-2 Sixer's lead. It lasted just 3 minutes before Jason Spezza knotted it up again at 3. Finally, after neither team could score for the remainder of regulation or in the overtime period, the game went into a shootout. There, in the first round, Danny Briere scored while Mike Comrie was unsuccessful. In the second round, Mike Richards was unsuccessful while Daniel Alfredsson scored. In the 3rd round Jason Spezza and Simon Gagne were each unsuccessful. In the 4th round Jeff Carter and Nick Foligno were each unsuccessful. Finally in the 5th round, Claude Giroux was unsuccessful while Mike Fisher scored to clinch the 4-3 Senator's victory. So the Flyers get just one point and move to 42-25-11 ,for now, 95 points overall, but remain 4th in the Esstern conference.
2 comments:
Unfrotunate that it had to go to a penalty shootout considering the Flyers are really bad at it but a point is better than none.
-to ph1llysports
yeah at least they got one point
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