At Least They Salvaged a Point

The Flyers lost for the eighth straight time last night, this time via the shoot-out. The Flyers battled back from a two goal deficit to tie the game early in the third period. The Flyers saw goals from Kimmo Timonen [SH] on a pretty pass from RJ Umberger and Scottie Upshall when he deflected a Jim Dowd shot.

The officials in the game were absolutely atrocious. Lasse Kukkonen was cut on two different occasions from a high-stick, Jeff Carter was hooked on a break-away, and in over-time a Flyer player tripped a Senator and there was no call. I am actually at the point where I don't want to watch the games because of the officiating. The referees make between 100,000 and 200,000 a year. It is starting to look like they are too slow for the game.

Claude Giroux looked like he could become a special player after a somewhat shaky first period. Stevens awarded him with the first attempt in the shoot-out. Daniel Briere is continuing his woes as he completely whiffed on his shoot-out attempt. Timonen scored a shootout goal for the Flyers. Jason Spezza's shoot-out goal won it for the Senators.

At least they got a point. They're back in action tomorrow against the San Jose Sharks.