FLYERS NEWS

After rallying to defeat the Boston Bruins last night the Flyers came right back tonight with a matchup in Pittsburgh with the Penguins. It's been a while since the Flyers last strung together multiple wins so a win tonight would have been huge. Unfortunately, the Orange and Black were no match tonight for the Penguins' power play and scoring overall. The Pens out shot the Flyers 35-27, and were the more physical of the two teams for most of the night. Oddly , the Flyers actually won more faceoffs than the Pens and it didn't help them at all. The Fyers also committed 6 penalties to only 4 for by the Pens, and paid dearly for it with an early Sidney Crosby power play tally, a shorthanded tallly by Jordan Staal and a Bill Guerin tally, immediately put the Orange and Black behind 2-0 in the first period. Midway through the period the Flyers went on the power play and got on the board finally with a James Van Reimsdyk power play goal to cut it to 2-1. Unfortunately, thaf would be as close as the Orange and Black would get on this nght. Jordan Staal scored with just seconds left in the 2nd period to push the Penguins lead to 4-1. Then in the 3rd period ex Flyer Ruslan Fedotenko made it 5-1 Pens before Evgeni Malkin scored shorthanded to make it 6-1 Pens with a little over a minute to play and that's how it ended. So another night, another embarrassing loss for the Flyers. At least they're still only 2 points out of 8th in the Eastern conference. So if they can just become a little more consistent than they are right now they could be just fine to at least make the playoffs this season.