FLYERS NEWS

The Flyer's traveled to Toronto tonight to faceoff against the Maple Leafs, as they looked to continue their hot streak. Unfortunately, their current lack of roster depth came back to bite them again on this night. Young defenseman Danny Svyret went down with an injury in the Flyer's last game, and was replaced by Ole Kristian Tollefsen, who had been injured himself. Tollefsen has been shaky at best for the Orange and Black this season and he didn't get it done tonight. Likewise, Scott Hartnell was also out tonight with a stomach illness and he was replaced by Mika Pyorala, usually a healthy scratch from the lineup, and he too was not up to the task. Finally Mike Richards was apparently also afflicted with the stomach ailment that shelved Hartnell and he tried to play through, but was clearly not himself. Collectively, all of these things conspired to transform the Flyers from the tough, confident team from the last few games, to the sluggish uninspired one that showed up tonight. Alltogether they put 38 shots on goal, but none of them got by Leaf's goalie, Vesa Toskala. Meanwhile, Micheal Leighton, in what will probably be his last start after what happened tonight, had to watch his sluggish defense break down and hang him out to dry time after time. As a result Torono got the win 4-0 to snap the Flyer's win streak and bring them back down to reality for one night at least. On top of that Daroll Powe went down with an injury tonight as well, but so far there's no word on how serious it is. Here's hoping he gets better soon and the Orange and Black get back on track before too long. There's just no need anymore for losing streaks like the ones they were on before this recent hot streak. Anyway at this point with still 49 points overall, they drop to 9th in the East, but only 1 point out of 8th, so they're still okay for now.