The Flyers finished off their post Olympic road trip in Buffalo tonight as they looked to bounce back from an embarrassing loss to Florida by tightening things up against the Sabres. They actually got to U.S Olympic hero, Ryan Miller, early in the 2nd period, with Simon Gagne scoring just 4 minutes in, for a 1-0 lead. A couple minutes later Thomas Vanek beat Micheal Leighton to knot it up at 1. Then early in the 3rd period Mike Richards got to Miller again, unassisted for a 2-1 lead. That is, until Adam Mair knotted it up at 2 with about 6 minutes to play. From there neither team could score for the remainder of regulation so the game went into overtime. There, just a couple minutes in Tim Connolly broke the Flyer's hearts with the 3-2 game winner.Still, since the game went into overtime the Flyers at least earn 1 point.
The Flyers' defense was again a little off allowing 35 shots on goal, but Leighton picked them up with 32 saves. Unfortunately, his teammates didn't help him out enough with some goals and the Orange and Black came up short in this one. Simon Gagne and Mike Richards continued their sparkling post Olympic play tonight as well. They will have to keep it up if the Flyers are to make the playoffs and go anywhere this season. For now with the 1 point tonight the Flyers now have 70 overall, just enough to remain 6th in the Eastern conference. So they are okay for now.
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