The Flyers were beat by the Montreal Canadiens 5-3 in Philadelphia Wednesday night.
Simon Gagne scored his 34th goal of the year, a new high for him. Freddy Meyer and R.J. Umberger (power play – R.J. standing for Rick Junior) scored the other two goals.
The Flyers controlled a lot of the first period. The Flyers weren’t really dominating, the Canadiens just looked bad, Huet in goal looked shaky. Looking at the fact the Canadiens losing 17 of their last 19 road games I thought to myself this would be a good high scoring win for the Flyers.

But after the Flyers took a 2-0 lead the Canadiens woke up and played a good game. Apparently the Flyers decided to take the rest of the night off. You’re not going to win many games giving up 5 goals on 15 shots. Robert Esche didn’t look the sharpest, but the loss was hardly his fault. Too many turnovers, too many odd man rushes.

Got to give credit to Jan Bulis scoring 4 goals on 4 shots, impressive, his first career hat trick. Interesting though that Bulis wasn’t scheduled to play in the game at all.
Peter Forsberg left in the second period with another groin injury. Branko Radovojevic left in the 3rd period after sliding into the boards hard with a lower body injury.

Jan Bulis, Craig Rivet and R.J. Umberger were the three stars.

The last player to score 4 goals against the Flyers was Mario Lemieux in a 9-3 win by Pittsburgh on March 20, 1993. The last Canadien to score 4 goals in a game is current Flyer Brian Savage