From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 12/15
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:32:18 GMT



Sorry I'm so late with this summary, I've been very busy. The FLYERS lost
Saturday night before yet another near sellout crowd to the Washington
Capitols 5-2.

Injuries:
Dominic Roussel reinjured his groin muscle in the Detroit game on Friday
and is out indefinitely. After the game, on the way home, the all-sports
radio guy said "Gee, this almost sounds familiar. A goalie in the city
of Philadelphia with recurring groin injuries...hmmmmm..."

Eric Lindros is still out with the knee sprain. Between periods during
Fridays game he was interviewed by Mike Emrick. Jim McDonald sent me
Email that he got to see some off-the-official-air talk thanks to his
satellite dish, and it seems that Eric has no trouble skating straight
ahead, but he has no power when he changes direction. Not a good sign.

Brent Fedyk strained his right shoulder in Detroit, he's day to day.

Mark Recchi is still not 100%.

Lines:
Major juggling for this game.
Boivin-Brind'Amour-Brown (Brown would be replaced by Paslawski in the third)
Pederson-Eklund-Recchi (Eklund played very little of the third)
Lomakin-Acton-Dineen
Paslawski-Barrie-Evans

Or something like that. #1 and #3 are definitely right. #2 sorta changed a
lot as the game went on, and #4 disappeared in the 3rd period.

Game summary:

I don't have a box score handy, and I don't remember enough to be very
accurate, so here's the UPI article followed by some general comments:

	PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -- Michal Pivonka, Pat Elynuik and Peter Bondra
scored first-period goals Saturday night to send the streaking
Washington Capitals to their seventh straight victory, a 5-2 verdict
over the Philadelphia Flyers.
	The Capitals improved to 10-1-1 since Nov. 22, and 6-0 in December.
Goaltender Don Beaupre has a five-game winning streak.
	Pivonka, who had two goals and three assists in Washington's 8-6 win
over Winnipeg Friday night, scored on the power play at 8:28 of the
first period to give the Capitals a 1-0 lead. Elynuik and Bondra scored
3:26 apart later in the period.
	Rod Brind'Amour scored both Philadelphia goals. Brind'Amour scored a
power-play goal at 7:21 of the second period and added a third-period
goal.
	Bobby Carpenter's goal 5:54 into the third period gave the Capitals a
4-1 lead and Kevin Hatcher added an empty net goal. The loss was the
fourth in a row for the Flyers.

Pete's comments:
All 4 Caps goals came on rebounds. Mostly point shots that went off Beauregard
onto the stick of the lucky Cap (lucky in the sense that they happened to be
on the ice, not that they were able to score) who had empty nets to shoot at.
The Elynuik goal was a spin around goal like the one Boivin scored not too
long ago off a rebound. One of the Brind'Amour goals came on a perfect 2 on
1 play with a perfect pass to Rod (I think it was Paslawski). Although it
was a loss, it was quite a moral victory in the sense that this team showed
a lot of fire in the second and especially about a 10 minute stretch of the
third after the second Brind'Amour goal, but they're just too beat up right
now to get the puck in the net with any consistency. Take away any two guys
from any teams top scoring line, make the third guy less than 100% and let's
see how many goals they score...

The empty netter was the luckiest I've ever seen. From behind his own goal line
Hatcher just tried to clear it and sent it right in the center of the net. He
woulda won scorro in any rink that still does that...

The FLYERS are in very bad shape right now. They're starting to fall way
behind the playoff pack like they did last year. Remember, it was the post
X-mas road trip that buried them last year, and they have 3 of the next 5
against the Penguins BEFORE this years road trip. The FLYERS need to start
winning soon to stay in the hunt, and the schedule is not very good.

That's all for now. I won't be able to do much for tonight's game since I
don't have TV coverage, but I'll relay what I hear on the radio. Look
for Lori's post for the gory details...

pete clark jr - rsh FLYERS contact
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