After coming this close to upsetting the Pens in their last game the Flyers returned to action this afternoon at the Wachovia center as they welcomed the hated Rangers to town. With both teams struggling recently yet still very much in the running for one of the final playoff spots in the Eastern conference, this was a key matchup. Unfortunately, the Flyers came out a bit flat, and fell behind early 1-0 on unassisted Chris Drury score early in the 1st period. A few minutes later the Flyers answered back with a power tally by Chris Pronger off an assist from Simon Gagne to knot it up at 1. From there all they picked it up the rest of the way and ultimately New York 37-24, the only other score of the night went to New York with Artem Anisimov scoring early in the 2nd period to cap off a disheartenting 2-1 loss to the Rangers. Basically, Ranger's goalie, Henrick Lundqvist stole this one from the Flyers with 36 huge saves, and it hurts. It kinda makes you wonder what the heck the Flyers have to do around here to get a win. Anyway despite the gut wrenching loss the Flyers, at 15-17-2 overall remain just 5 points out of 8th in the Eastern conference.
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Well it would appear the Flyers and Sixers are in the same boat in that even though they are struggling they arent that far out from a playoff spot.
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yeah if only they weren't struggling
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