After running out of gas against the San Jose Sharks in their last game, the Flyers looked to get back on track tonight in Washington against the Capitals. For a while it looked like they would do just that as early in the 2nd period Scott Hartnell and late in the period Braydon Coburn each scored on the power play for a 2-0 Flyer's lead. However, just 2 minutes after Coburn's goal Alexander Ovechkin scored to cut it to 2-1 and then 2 minutes after Niklas Backstrom scored to knot it at 2. Just like that Washington seized the momentum, and did not let go for the remainder of the night as Alexander Semin scored early in the 3rd period for a 3-2 Caps lead and Ovechkin scored again on the empty net with under a minute to play to put away a 4-2 Caps' win. It's hard to say where this one went wrong. The Flyer's outshot the Caps 43-36, went 2 for 5 on the Power play, to just 1 for 4 for Washington, and got 32 saves out of 35 shots faced from Ray Emery, all numbers that should have been enough to get a win over the Caps, but they weren't. Perhaps the defense wasn't strong enough as 36 shots is a little high or maybe they just didn't do a good enough job keeping the pressure on the Caps after getting that lead or maybe they should have taken better advantage of those 5 power plays. Whatever the reason, the Orange and Black need to figure it out fast because this can't keep happening. They just can't afford to keep letting winnable games slip away from them like this.
2 comments:
Oi these Flyers are making me a little bit worried due to their inability to be consistent.
-to ph1llysaports
yeah same here
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