FLYERS NEWS

2 nights after an exhilarating season opening win over the Pens the Orange and Black put up a dud tonight in St.Louis. They were no less tough they had been in Pittsburgh, but no less sloppy as well and that cost them. They just committed way too many turnovers and penalties, even for a game this early in the season and you won't win very often when you do that. All told the Blues went on the power play 10, count em 10 times. Somehow the Flyer's penalty kill, thanks in large part to Brian Boucher and his 23 saves, held up 9 of those times. Still with all that time spent killing off penalties there was little time for the Flyers get anything going offensively. When they did try to move the puck and make things happen in the offensive the Blues did a very good job clamping down on them defensively and not making anything easy.

Thanks to the 1 power play goal for St.Louis and the Flyers own futility in the offensive zone they actually trailed 1-0 heading into the 3rd period. Finally a little over 2 minutes into the Danny Briere shot one over Jan Halak's head and in to tie it at 1. After that the Orange and Black continued to pick it up in the 3rd period again, but just couldn't come up with the winning score as game went into overtime. Just under 2 minutes into the overtime Boucher lost a Carlo Colaiacovo shot behind a screen and St.Louis had the 2-1 win. The fact that the Flyers at least got to the overtime and earned themselves a point, shows how good they are, but they've really got to clean things up if they want to have any sort of sustained success this season. They'll take the the 3 out of 4 points on the road though as head back to Philly for the home opener Monday night.