From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 1/24
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 06:15:18 GMT
Keywords: FLYERS/Islanders summary



The FLYERS lost their 3rd straight game, 8-4 to the NY Islanders last night.
The team talked about how they've been giving up goals in bunches before
the game, and then went out and gave up 4 goals in the first period and 3
in the 3rd.

Lines:

Fedyk-Beranek-Recchi (that lasted one period before Paslawski moved back up)
Eklund-Brind'Amour-Dineen
Paslawski-Acton-Evans
Lomakin-Snuggerud-Brown

Yushkevich-Galley
Carkner-Nattress
McGill-Hawgood

Soderstrom's 17th straight start.

Game Summary:

The FLYERS opened the scoring on their first power play of the game. Tom Kurvers
had tackled Brind'Amour in the FLYERS right offensive corner. The FLYERS won
the faceoff. Galley kept the puck in along the left boards and kicked it ahead
to Brind'Amour, who picked it up and sent it across to Hawgood at the right
point. Hawgood shot, and the puck went barely through Mark Fitzpatrick in the
Islanders crease, but it stopped right behind him. Brind'Amour swooped in
and poked the puck home for the 1-0 lead at 6:25. It was Galley's 200th
career assist.

But then the floodgates opened.

The Islanders were mostly shut down on their first power play attempt, and were
getting shut down on their second to the point where the crowd was getting
restless. But on the second one, Beranek was in the box for holding at 12:01,
Jeff Norton carried into the FLYERS zone and pushed the puck to the left corner
as Yushkevich checked him off it. McInnis pushed it along behind the net by
outmuscling Paslawski in that corner, and Turgeon picked it up behind the net
and centered to Dalgarno. Galley was right there but didn't tie him up at all,
and Dalgarno beat Soderstrom to tie the game at 1 at 13:33.

While they were still announcing the goal, there was a 4 man battle for the
puck along the left boards just inside the Islanders blue line. Green finally
poked the puck free, and created a 2 on 1 going in on Soderstrom as one FLYERS
defenseman was part of the battle and the other was out of position. Recchi
was the one FLYER back. Green skated across the crease as Recchi did a good job
of tying up McInnes. Soderstrom moved across with Green, I don't know if he
was trying to anticipate the pass that wasn't coming, but he moved across too
far and gave Green plenty to shoot at back the other way. Green flipped it in
at 13:58 for a 2-1 Islanders lead. McGill took a roughing penalty right after
the goal to put the Islanders right back on the power play.

Again the FLYERS were doing a good job of killing the penalty. Thomas got
free in the slot, but didn't get a shot away as Soderstrom filled the net.
He circled in the right circle, fed Kurvers back into the slot as Kurvers
crashed from the point. He got a good shot off, but that went off Nattress.
Flatley picked up the loose puck and carried behind the FLYERS net, held for
a couple seconds and sent back to Kurvers at the point. He shot through the
legs of Evans as Nattress allowed Thomas to skate out and stand right in
front of Soderstrom, and the puck went through his legs as well before
going past Soderstrom who never saw it coming. 3-1 Islanders at 14:44,
three goals in 1:11, two on the power play!

The Islanders made it 4-1 in the last 2 minutes of the period. They gained
the FLYERS zone on yet another 2 on 1, but failed to convert. The puck bounced
around the boards and up the offensive left side where Kurvers kept it in.
Hogue picked up the puck while skating out of the left corner, circled along
the outer arc of the left faceoff circle, and found Flatly crashing the net
in the right circle. Flatley faked Soderstrom out of his jock as he faked
towards the goal line and cut into the crease to create an open net as
Soderstrom slid right out of the play. He almost missed, though, as the puck
went off the far post and in, 4-1 Islanders at 18:01.

Right off the ensuing faceoff, Vaske took Dineen down from behind as they
raced with another Islander for a puck iced by the FLYERS. Dineen went into the
boards very hard, but Vaske only got 2. Again good pressure on the advantage
for the FLYERS. With time in the period running out, Soderstrom handed a
cleared puck to Hawgood, he carried across the FLYERS blue line and sent ahead
to Galley as he crossed the Islanders blue line. He sent across to Fedyk in
the left circle, and Fedyk centered to Recchi in the left part of the slot.
Recchi rocketed it past Fitzpatrick, 4-2 Islanders at 19:41. Both teams are
2 for 3 on the power play at this point.

The FLYERS ended up outshooting the Islanders 13-6 in the period.

In the second period, the FLYERS killed off an early Islander power play, then
got some more offense. The Islanders dumped behind the FLYERS net, and
Soderstrom went back and shoved it along to Yushkevich in the right defensive
corner. Yushkevich carried into the neutral zone, and saw Beranek breaking
along the boards on the other side. He lofted the puck from just across his
blue line high in Beranek's direction. Beranek caught the puck in his hand
after he crossed the blue line (Question for rules buffs: Beranek was clearly
across the blue line when he caught it, definitely onsides, but since the
puck crossed both the red line AND the offensive blue line before he caught
it in his glove, why isn't that a 2 line pass??) and skated in all alone
on Fitzpatrick. He skated across the top of the crease and slid it under the
sprawling goalie to draw the FLYERS within 1 at 6:05.

Less than a minute later Thomas took a penalty to give the FLYERS a power play
again at 6:49. Galley controlled at the left point, handed to Eklund down the
boards, and he gave it back after holding for a couple moments. Galley ripped
a slap shot through a screen created by Dineen. Dineen must have deflected it
because he got the first assist, but Fitzpatrick made the stop on the initial
shot. Brind'Amour then swooped in and stashed home the rebound to tie the
game at 4 at 8:02. So the FLYERS came back to tie at four in consecutive
games from 4-0 and 4-1 deficits respectively. That's the good news. The bad
news is that they didn't score again on either night.

The Islanders got the lead back on a nice passing display on a 3 on 2. Lachance
picked up a loose puck along his right boards and carried into the zone with
Green and McInnes. And that was how the passes went from right to left, and
when McInnes got the puck in the left circle, he centered it back to Lachance
in the slot. Soderstrom, who had gotten into the nasty habit of not trusting
his defensemen to cover the pass, went across to make the play on McInnes the
puck carrier as he was sending it back to the slot, and Lachance had an empty
net to shoot at from the middle of the ice about 10 feet away. 5-4 Islanders
at 14:32.

The FLYERS started the third period on a carryover power play. The got some
good pressure again, but failed to convert. Just as it was ending, Fedyk tried
to send the puck from the offensive left corner to Galley at the right point.
The puck was way behind him, though, and kicked out towards the FLYERS end.
Benoit Hogue raced after it with Hawgood, who did a good job of forcing him
to unload the puck as quickly as he got to it. He made a blind turnaround
centering pass, but right there was Marty McInnes and he one-timed it past
Soderstrom just barely under the cross bar for a 6-4 Islander lead at 1:50.
It was so close to the end of the penalty that Flatley hadn't gotten out of
the box yet, but time had expired so technically it wasn't shorthanded.

The FLYERS put some pressure on the Islanders after the goal until tempers
flared at 6:14. 2 aside went into the box, but Norton got an extra 2 to
give the FLYERS a power play. Again good pressure from the FLYERS, but
then disaster struck. First the Islanders battled for a puck just inside
the blue line, and poked the puck the other way. A 2 on the goalie was
almost created, but Soderstrom saw it coming. He came out of the net and
dove on the puck as it crossed his blue line (yes, blue line) for a delay
of game penalty. Then when the Norton penalty expired Nattress tripped an
Islander to give them a 5 on 3 for 1:17. The FLYERS came into the game strong
on 5 on 3 situations. They looked strong again on this one, but it was too
long. Off a faceoff in the right circle, Turgeon won to Krupp at the right
point, he sent across to Kurvers at the left point, and he shot through
the 5 hole for the 7-4 lead at 9:21. Bad goal from Soderstrom.

The capper came from Hogue with McGill in the box at 19:27. Kurvers and
Norton got the assists.

So the FLYERS outshoot the Islanders 36-31 on the game, go 3-6 on the power
play, but lose by a count of 8-4. A particularly bad loss since A) it was
a division game and B) the 3rd and 4th place teams won, dropping the FLYERS
to 10 points out of a playoff spot. The FLYERS drop their 3rd straight after
only losing 1 of 11. More bad news, the FLYERS have only won 2 road games
in the Patrick division since the beginning of LAST season. OUCH!

Next up, the Hartford Whalers come to town to give the FLYERS a chance to
salvage the weekend on Sunday night at the Spectrum.

pete clark jr - rsh FLYERS contact and FLYERS mailing list owner
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