After knocking off the Canadiens and the Penguins, the Flyers faced another hot team today in the New York Rangers. Once again the Orange and Black were not fazed. They simply outclassed the Rangers from beginning to end, with 39 shots on goal to the Rangers 25, and 30 faceoffs won to the Rangers 29. They also went 1 for 4 on the power play while New York went 0 for 4. Brian Boucher was a big part of that 0 for 4 saving 24 of the 25 shots he faced while Nikolay Zherdev the Flyers lone power play goal on a dazzling 2 goal day for him.
About halfway through the 2nd period Zherdev struck with his first goal of the day for a 1-0 lead. Just 3 minutes into the 3rd period Claude Giroux setup Andreas Nodl to make it 2-0 Orange and Black. About 5 minutes after that New York cut it to 2-1, but just a minute later Danny Briere and Kimmo Timonen setup Ville Leino to make it 3-1. 6 minutes later, with about 5 minutes left to play , Zherdev struck on the power play with help from Andrej Mezsaros and Jeff Carter, for a 4-1 lead. Brian Boucher took care of business from there and the Orange and Black had their 5th straight win, 4-1.
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