FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers traveled to Pittsburgh this afternoon for a matchup with the Penguins as they looked to snap a 4 games losing streak. Desperate to stop the losing streak and their slide out of playoff contention the Flyers brought up Jonas Backlund from the Phantoms to get the start in goal. He did pretty good job in the first two periods but reaggravated the groin injury, which kept the Flyers from calling him up sooner, and could not come out for the 3rd period. The Flyer's also had some bad luck with the officials in the first those first 2 periods as well, with a Simon Gagne goal getting disallowed while a Pen's goal that should probably have been disallowed was not, and ended up going into the 3rd period down 2-1. There with Boucher in goal Pittsburgh quickly made it 3-1 and then eventually 4-1 with a later power play goal, to the send the Orange and Black to their 5th straight loss.

Actually the goal by Matt Cooke, that made it 3-1, probably should have been disallowed too, but with ex-Flyer Ruslan Fedotenko scoring that late power play goal, the Flyers would have lost anyway so I guess it doesn't really matter. For the record Aaron Asham scored the only Flyer goal just one minute into the game. Which means the Flyers did actually lead this game 1-0 at one point, but obviously that didn't last long. It's too bad Backlund reinjured himself because now he'll be out for at least 10 days, which means we're pretty much stuck with Boosh for most of the rest of the season. Hopefully he can clean up his act enough to at least get the Orange and Black into the playoffs and then perhaps Micheal Leighton will be back to care of things after that. At this point with the loss the Flyers are down to 8th in the East, but still 2 points ahead of 9th place Atlanta and 4 points ahead of the Rangers. If they are still to make the playoffs they're going to have a win a few at some point.