FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers traveled to New Jersey tonight for a matchup with the New Jersey Devils, as they looked to get back on track following a loss to the Ottawa Senators in their last game. They did anything but on this night. They let up an early power play goal to Niclas Bergfors to put themselves behind 1-0 just 2 minutes into the 1st period and never recovered. By the end of the 1st period they were already behind 3-0 as Begfors scored another power play goal and Patrick Elias added a late score. It was not until late in the 2nd period that Claude Giroux finally put the Orange and Black on the board with a power play goal to cut it to 3-1. Then Elias added another score with just second left in the period to push it to 4-1 and that's how it ended with neither team scoring in th 3rd period. It could have been worse but the Flyer's defense hung in there to hold New Jersey to only 28 shots on goal. However, they took 6 penalties, which is too many, and could only kill off 4 of them. Also Brian Boucher did not play very well in goal, as he struggled to handle rebounds and gave up some cheap goals. Finally the Flyers mustered very it little offensively, with just 23 shots on goal and then one score by Giroux. Sure, they're missing top faceoff man Blair Betts, top power play Daroll Powe, and top points scorer Simon Gagne, but the Flyer's still have some dynamic scoring talent in Giroux, Jeff Carter, Mike Richards, Danny Briere, JVR, and Scott Hartnell and should be able to do better than this. Still there is surely no where to go at this point but up right? right?