FLYERS NEWS

After another lengthy layoff the Flyers finally returned to action again as they faced off tonight at the Wachovia center against the big bad Boston Bruins. It was the Flyers though who turned out to be big bad on this night. Of course they were also a bit fortunate that Boston was playing for 2nd night in a row and thus were not as fresh as the Orange and Black. Even if they had been fresh I'm not sure the Bruins could have won this one. The Flyer's just outplayed them for most of the night and deserved the win. They were more physical than Boston, and they out shot them 39 - 26. So it wa a pretty good effort defensively for the Flyers. Ray Emery had another dazzling as well, saving 23 of the 26 shots that came his way on the night. As for the scoring, the Flyer's top scorers were held in check during this one but they were able to grind out a few goals from unexpected players and get the Flyers the lead a few times. Late in the 1st period Chris Pronger scored for a 1-0 lead. Still later in the first period Derek Morris scored off the Boston power play to knot it up. Matt Hunwick scored a fluky goal to make it 2-1 Bruins early in the 2nd period, before the Daroll Powe and Aaron Asham within 5 minutes of one another to push the Flyers ahead again 3-2. Later Steve Begin scored another Fluky goal to tie up at 3 with under 4 minutes to play. From there neither team could score for the remainder of regulation or in the overtime so the game went into a shootout. There in the 3rd round of the shootout Claude Giroux scored and then Ray Emery and the Flyer's got lucky as Micheal Ryder's attempt to start the 4th round hit the post to clinch the Flyer victory. So after 3 straight losses the Flyer's rebound in a big way tonight with the shootout win, as they move to 4-2-1 overall.