FLYERS NEWS

It wasn't long ago that the Flyers were down 3-0 to the Bruins in their conference semifinal series. Most though the season was over after that, that they Orange and Black were playing on borrowed time, everyone that is except the players and coach Lavoliette themselves. So tonight they met with Bruins for game 7 of their series, looking to finish off the most improbable comeback in franchise history. First they would have to make yet another improbable comeback. Early on the Flyers looked like they meant business and were really taking it to the Bruins. All it took was misguided penalty by Scott Hartnell to turn the tables and allot Boston with a 1-0 lead just 5 minutes into the game. Less than 4 minutes later after Danny Briere took another ill advised penalty Boston made it 2-0. Then with about 6 minutes left in the 1st period Milan Lucic broke away on a 3 on 1 and flipped one by Micheal Leighton for a 3-0 lead.

So that was it right, It had been a great comeback by the Flyers, but they weren't going to be able to finish it off. Not so fast. Lavoliette quickly called a timeout after that to calm down the troops and boy did it work. Boston had multiple chances in the remainder of the period to make it 4-0 but Leighton stood tall. Then with a little less than 3 minutes in the period James Van Reimsdyk scored his first ever playoff goal, a softie through Tuuka Rask's legs to make it 3-1, and the rest as they say is history. A little over 5 minutes into the 2nd period Chris Pronger sent a pass the length of the ice to Hartnell who managed to get it to the net and then put it away off a second rebound to cut the lead to 3-2. 2 minutes later Danny Briere rumbled the length of the ice wrapped around the goal and somehow flipped one behind Rask and into the side of the net to tie it up at 3. It stayed 3-3 heading into the 3rd and all the way to about 7 minutes remaining in game as Leighton continued to hold off every Boston charge.

Finally at that point the Flyers got just their 3rd power play of the night, as Boston was caught with too many men on the ice. The Flyers took advantage a little over a minute later with Simon Gagne jabbing in a bouncing puck for a 4-3 lead, the Flyer's first of the night. Leighton made sure it held up the rest of the way as he finished off a solid 22 save night. So the Flyers got the 4-3 win and danced into history as just the 4th team overall(baseball/basketball/hockey) to successfully rally from 3-0 down to win a series, and just the 3rd NHL team to do so and now they'll host the Eastern conference finals. I just can't believe this team. They have injuries, a different goalie every month, and one deficit after another, yet nothing seems faze them. Now that they've come from 3-0 down who's gonna stop them now?