The Broad Street Blog

A day after a gutsy come­back against the East­ern Con­fer­ence lead­ing Boston Bru­ins, the Philadel­phia Fly­ers were set to take on the Atlanta Thrash­ers, a team they have not lost to since 2005. In net for the Fly­ers was Antero Niit­ty­maki who was look­ing to improve his record against Atlanta to 13 – 0-0.

The case of the flu that has been wreck­ing havoc in the Fly­ers’ locker room con­tin­ued to keep play­ers out of the lineup. Mike Richards and Scot­tie Upshall were out again for today’s game.

The line of Jeff Carter, Jof­frey Lupul, and Scott Hart­nell sup­plied all of the offense. Carter opened the scor­ing with a laser of wrist shot in the first period. Lupul added to the Fly­ers lead with a goal in the open­ing minute of the sec­ond period. Carter put the Fly­ers up 3 – 0 with a power play goal early in the third period. It was his sec­ond of the game, and his 100th career NHL goal.

At that point it looked like the Fly­ers had the game wrapped up, but that would be no fun, so they decided to make things inter­est­ing. Two Atlanta power play goals later, the Fly­ers lead was cut to 1. The Thrash­ers pressed and played with des­per­a­tion, but the Fly­ers were able to hold on for the win.

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