This time, the Flyers didn’t blow a two-goal lead in the third period. They played responsibly with the puck, despite having just five defensemen. And they got timely saves as Robert Esche clearly outplayed Dominik Hasek.
It all culminated in a shocking 5-3 Flyers victory over the white-hot, speedy Senators last night at the Corel Centre. [.continue.]

Solid play by the Flyers, although the Senators playing the night before surely had an affect on their play. The biggest disappointment coming out of the game was Kim Johnsson leaving in the second period with a groin strain. Depending on how bad the injury is, the Flyers won’t have any healthy defenseman to scratch. Both Seidenburg and Therien will be getting ice time.
Desjardins picked up the most ice time with almost 28 minutes

“I talked before the game to every guy, and some guys stepped up. Jeff [Carter] played a great game. I talked to Robert [Esche] before the game, and he had maybe the best game of the year for us. When you lose your captain, your leader, you need guys to step up, and some guys did tonight.” said Simon Gagne

Looks like he is earning the letter he is wearing.

Carter looked like he is getting into the groove, hopefully this will lead to more ice time. He did have the best face off percentage for the Flyers last night.

Stars for the game were Forsberg, Esche and Chara.

Watching the Flyers on Center Ice usually means watching the other teams broadcast, which can be quite, um, interesting. With the Flyers game being on UPN instead of Comcast, CI showed the Flyers feed. It was nice to listen to some ‘unbiased’ commentary for once. The really nice thing about it was no commercials. This got me thinking, I am paying for Center Ice, they should not be showing any commercials at all.