FLYERS NEWS

The Flyers looked to continue to a 3 game winning streak as they welcomed the Calgary Flames to the Wells Fargo center. The Flames came in as the 2nd worst team in the western conference and so even a solid effort would likely have been enough for the Orange and Black in this one. Solid they were as Sergei Bobrovsky racked up another 28 saves, and the Flyers held the flames to just 30 shots on goal and 3 unsuccessful power plays. James Van Reimsdyk also scored his 3rd goal in as many games as another 5 different Flyers scored points in this one. However, the Flyers struggled again on the power play, going 0 for 6 and in the end that ultimately cost them.

No one scored in a hard fought first period as the Flyers failed on their first power play. Just 3 minutes into the 2nd period though, Blair Betts and Matt Carle setup Nikolay Zherdev for a 1-0 lead. The Orange and Black then failed on 3 more power play opportunities, even allotting the Flames a shorthanded tally to knot the score at 1. Only a couple after their last power play, Mike Richards fed JVR who one timed one home to put the Flyers up 2-1. For a good while it looked like that would be enough to hold off Calgary but the Orange and Black failed on another power play in the 3rd, that would definitely have put things out of reach, and then seemed to run out of gas afterwards as Alex Tanguay and Jerome Iginla went other way on the rush and fed Steve Staios with the equalizer.

The Flyers continued to the look a bit tired as the game went in overtime from there. In OT the Orange and Black had another power play and this time Mike Richards appeared to score for the win, but Chris Pronger was called for a bogus penalty, nullifying goal and eventually forcing a shootout. Claude Giroux did score in the shootout, but Danny Briere and Richards both missed while Nikolas Hagman and Rene Bourqe both beat Bob to give Calgary a 3-2 shootout win. Oh well, better luck next time.