The Flyers faced off against the Bruins this afternoon in the winter classic, the NHL's annual outdoor game and it really was classic, until the end unfortunately. Early on it was all Flyers with defenseman Danny Svyret scoring his first career goal just 4 minutes into the 1st period for a 1-0 lead. They had ample opportunities after that to put Boston away, but the Flyers were unable to light the lamp again. It looked like it wouldn't matter though as Micheal Leighton took a shutout into the final 3 minutes of the 3rd period. Then Danny Briere was called for tripping, to give Boston one last chance for the equalizer. The Flyers nearly killed off the power play and sealed a win, but with about 30 seconds left on the penalty, Boston was able to get one past Leigthon at last to tie it at 1. Later with about a minute to play Kimmo Timonen hit with a questionable tripping call himself, as 6-7 behemoth Zdeno Chara tripped over Timonen's stick after Kimmo had fallen down in front of the net. So Boston was on the power play the rest of the way. Flyers managed to escape regulation with the game tied, to secure at least a point, and then they killed it off to start overtime. Unfortunately, just after the power play Boston somehow managed to get 5 guys on the ice, 6 by some counts(only 4 players can be on the ice at once during overtime), and Marco Sturm used the advantage to score the winning goal for Boston, in a 2-1 hearbreaker. Still, the Flyers get at least a point for the 5th game in a row, and with 41 points, they are still 9th in the East, just a point out of 8th.
2 comments:
It was really cool watching the Flyers play in Fenway and its a shame that their winning streak had to come to an end in an unfair setting that it did but on the bright side at least they still got a point.
-to ph1llysports
yeah at least they got a point
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