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.

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Domination.

The Flyers destroyed the Ottawa Senators at home last night with a 6-1 victory.

The Flyers took a 2-0 first period lead on a Braydon Coburn one-timer early in the game and a Scott Hartnell power play goal. Hartnell, who got open in the slot and lifted in a Jeff Carter feed from behind the net, recorded his 10th goal in the last seven games.

Philadelphia entered the game with the league’s leading power play, and has scored on the man-advantage at least once in 18 of the last 20 games and eight in a row overall.

Already leading 2-0, the Flyers opened up a four-goal lead in the second period. Mike Richards fought through both Chris Phillips and Antonie Vermette in the Ottawa zone and found Scottie Upshall wide open at the top of the circle. Upshall fired a wrist shot into the top corner of the net just 40 seconds after the faceoff.

R.J. Umberger scored his eighth goal of the season at 3:50 following a pileup in front of the Ottawa net, before Chris Kelly tallied on a two-on-one rush to put the Senators on the board.

Sami Kapanen scored for the first time in 34 games with a SH goal in the third period. Scottie Upshall scored another PP goal to complete the scoring. Antero Niittymaki continues his great play with 25 saves.

The Flyers have averaged 5 goals over their last 7 games and they are 10-1-1 in their last 12.

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