The Flyers finally got a chance to play at the Wachovia center this season, as they enertained Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals in the home opener tonight. It was not the most well played game, but it was an enertaining and exciting slopfest that came down to overtime. Ultimately, despite Ray Emery's worst night of the season thus far, with 5 goals getting past him out of the 36 shots he faced, the Flyers prevailed to the joy of the home crowd. Emery's struggles stemmed mostly from the suddenly porous Flyer's defense, which allowed 36 shots on goal, turned the puck over far too many times and committed too many penaties. Offensively on the other hand, the Orange Black had 1 heck of a night. Neither team could score in the 1st period, but in the 2nd period a Kimmo Timonen score, and a hat trick by Mike Richards, left the Flyers clinging to a 4-3 lead after 2. Washington retook the lead in the 3rd period, but a Scott Hartnell put away with just under 5 minutes to play knotted it up again for the Orange shirts at 5. Finally neither team could score in regulation from there, so the game went into overtime. There in the extra period, just under 4 minutes in, Danny Briere slapped in a rebound to give the Flyers the 6-5 win. So this was another impressive win for the Flyers against a very good team, but it was very sloppy. The Flyers will have to clean things up if they want to keep winning games like this against there top competition. Anyway so the Flyers move to 3-0 overall, okay actually 2-0-1 overall but you get the idea.
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I watched this one and it was a hell of a game to watch. I think the Capitals are a pretty good team so its nice to know the Flyers can beat them.
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