The Flyers welcomed the Vancouver Canucks to the Wachovia center tonight as they looked to end a 2 game losing streak and get out of rut that had seen lose 5 of their last 6. Brian Boucher got the start in place of the suddenly struggling Ray Emery and played well with 26 of the 29 shots he faced, a number of them spectacular. The Flyers also outshot the Canucks 38-29 and won majority of the faceoffs, but it all went for naught as they were shutout for the 2nd night in a row with Robert Luongo saving all 38 shots the Flyers threw at him. That's a total now of 7 straight periods without a goal for the Flyers and frankly it's kind of an embarrassment for the players and the coach. Tonight aganst the always tough Luongo, it seemed the Flyers just tried to be a little too precise with their shots and often didn't get a lot on them as a result. Still you would think one of them would have found a way in, especially considering the Flyer's had 5 power plays with which to rack up shots and scoring chances, yet they came up with nothing. So they drop to 13-11-1 overall and now 10th in the Eastern conference, but just 2 points out of the 8th. Maybe they should bring Eric Lindros out of retirement. Hey couldn't hurt could it?
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Ugh another loss. I think that Lindros thing might not be the worst of ideas considering how the Flyers are playing right now...anything can help.
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well I was just kidding, Lindros has been retired for over 3 years now and did so because he had suffered one too many concussions in his career so it would be pretty much impossible to bring him back
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