The Flyers talk another one in overtime 4-3 against the Hurricanes.
The second game in two nights Sami Kapanen scored in overtime to win it for the Flyers. Brian Savage scored his third goal of the year, his second in two days. Freddy Meyer scored his first goal ever in the NHL. Simon Gagne took sole first place in the league lead with goals with his goal in third to tie the game.
“I think there’s a tremendous feeling of team in the locker-room,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. “Nobody wants to be the person that lets the other person down right now. If you stay with that feeling, you can take a long run.”
We can only hope.
One thing that really surprised me in overtime was the lack of any effort on the part of the Hurricanes. The third period had turned into a track meet, continuously up and down the ice. In overtime they were just standing around, literally. The Flyers were able to take advantage of this with Kapanen putting away a rebound off his first shot.
Overall both goalies played very well.
A scary moment for Mike Rathje in the third period. He took a puck in the throat from former Flyer Rod Brind’Amour. Rathje fell instantly, after a couple minutes was able to get up and eventually return to the game.
Special teams almost cost the game for the Flyers. Giving up 2 goals on the penalty kill and not being able to score on the power play made the game tight. The Flyers are now 0-23 on the Power Play the last four games.
Kapanen, Cullen and Gagne were the three stars.
Jon Sim has been a healthy scratch the last two games.
13 of the last 15 Flyers games have been decided by one goal. This has made the games, at least from a fans perspective very exciting.
The Flyers will not practice on Friday, instead will take a tour of the Pentagon.
Flyers play the Capitals in Washington Saturday afternoon.
Yeah. I agree. I was at that game, and the Canes were just standing around defensively, forcing Cam Ward to make outstanding save after outstanding save. It was destined to end the way it did.
There’s one excuse, though, that didn’t make the papers. Carolina played in Ottawa the night before, and their travel back to Raleigh got delayed twice. They didn’t make it home until 4:30 in the morning, so they skipped practice, and they weren’t even really able to get any sleep before taking on the
Flyers.
Both teams played the night before, so both teams were battling fatigue, but I think Carolina was at more of a disadvantage despite being the home team.
When I read that Carolina was in Ottawa the night before, I thought that was kind of odd and really a stupid setup by the NHL.
I think teams shouldn’t be playing two days in a row especially if they have to travel.
There has been a lot of talk on the blogs complaining about the schedule. Most of the criticism being about playing the same teams over and over. I really don’t care about that, what bugs me more is how the games are spread out.
Why do the Flyers get 6 days off between games in October, but then has to play 3 games in 4 nights in December is beyond me.
The Flyers played at home against Ottawa on Dec 22 had to play in Pittsburgh on the 23. Which would have been fine but Pittsburgh had 5 days off before the game, just ridiculous.