The Flyers and Capitals engaged in another showdown at the Wells Fargo center. For the first 2 periods it was all Orange and Black. Jeff Carter scored unassisted in the 1st period then teamed with Kimmo Timonen to setup Claude Giroux to make it 2-0 in the 2nd period. Meanwhile Sergei Bobrovksy looked great, stopping all 16 shots he faced. Bobrovsky still had a shutout going with 12 minutes to play, when the Flyers started getting sloppy in their own zone. Turnovers by Ville Leino and Mike Richards in the Flyer zone allowed Washington to quickly tie things up at 2.
The Flyers have multiple opportunities after that to retake the lead but they couldn't and the game went into overtime. Just over a minute into overtime Matt Carle and Danny Briere beautifully to setup Andrej Meszaros from the point to blast a wrist shot through traffic in front and in for the big 3-2 win. So it probably wasn't the Orange and Black's best full effort but it was nice to see them pull it out.
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