FLYERS NEWS

After back to back shootout losses the last the thing the Orange and Black wanted to see was the best goalie in the NHL, but that's exactly what they got as Tim Thomas with his league leading 1.44 GAA and .956 save percentage, and the Bruins rolled into town. The Flyers did what you have to do against a top goalie, peppering him with 41 shots, but not enough of them represented decent scoring opportunities and Thomas stopped them all. Moreover, the Orange and Black continued to struggle on the power play, going 0 for 4, and chances are you're not going to beat a top goalie with a poor power play. For his part Sergei Bobrovsky was pretty good too, with 29 saves out of the 31 shots he faced, but it wasn't good enough, not tonight and not against Thomas.

The Orange and Black got off to a bad start allowing Patrice Bergeron to score a Bruin power play goal for a 1-0 just under 6 minutes into the contest. 10 minutes later they allowed Tyler Sequin a free breakaway at Bobrovsky and he beat Bob with a wrister to make it 2-0. From there became a war between the Flyers and Thomas with Thomas winning all the battles. He just kept racking up one great save after another and Bruin's defense did just enough to keep the Flyers from getting totally set on offense. The Orange and Black also didn't necessarily try that hard to get set either and that didn't help matters. Finally with just under 2 minutes to play Milan Lucic scored an empty netter to put the proverbial nail in the Flyer's coffin. Thomas took care of the rest as the Flyers lost their 3rd in a row, 3-0.