The Broad Street Blog

It was a New York week­end for the Fly­ers. It started off with a Sat­ur­day after­noon mati­nee against the Islanders. The Fly­ers came out strong and took it to the Islanders, scor­ing two goals only 44 sec­onds apart. How­ever a sit­ting back in the sec­ond period and early in the third led to the Islanders com­ing within a goal of tying the game. How­ever, a 3 goal burst dur­ing a 67 sec­ond span, includ­ing a Simon Gagne penalty shot, pre­vented a col­lapse against the last place Islanders.

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Sun­day saw a trip up to Madi­son Square Gar­den to take on the New York Rangers, a team the Fly­ers haven’t seen since the opener of the sea­son. Com­ing into the game, the Fly­ers led the Rangers by a point in the Atlantic Divi­sion. The East­ern Con­fer­ence is a tight race, only 11 points sep­a­rates 2nd and 8th place (the Bru­ins are run­ning away with first place). 

The Fly­ers dom­i­nated the major­ity of the game. Claude Giroux opened the scor­ing about half way through the first with his third goal of the year, his sec­ond in two games. He ended the day with a goal and 2 assists, his first 3 point game. Mike Richards started a sec­ond period Fly­ers’ scor­ing frenzy with his 20th of the year on a break­away while the Fly­ers were short­handed two skaters. Richards is the first NHL player to have 3 career short­handed goals while down 3 skaters to 5. 

Matt Carle, Glen Met­ro­polit and Mike Knu­ble all added goals within a 2 minute period to give the Fly­ers a 5 goal lead. Hen­rik Lundqvist was yanked after giv­ing up 4 goals before the halfway mark of the game. The Rangers would add a goal in the sec­ond period and another in the third. Those two goals and a fre­netic pace in the third were not enough and the Fly­ers held on for the win.

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