From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 1/22 part 2
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:30:58 GMT
Keywords: FLYERS/Bruins summary



The FLYERS came back from a 4-0 first period deficit to tie the game at
4 only to see the Bruins get the game winner 45 seconds later. The FLYERS
have now lost 2 in a row, both at home, after they had only lost 1 of 10.
The Bruins were without Ray Bourque who had been injuered on Tuesday night
at Nassau Coliseum.

Roster news:

Joseph Beranek and Greg Hawgood joined the team and wore #42 and #20
respectively. Dominic Roussel earned a 1-1 tie against Mike Richter on
Wednesday at Hershey. Since Butsayev and Faust were not listed as scratches
and did not play I assume they were sent right back to Hershey.

Injuries:

Pelle Eklund returned to the lineup.

Lines:

Fedyk-Recchi-Paslawski
Eklund-Brind'Amour-Dineen
Beranek-Acton-Evans
Lomakin-Snuggerud-Brown

Yushkevich-Galley
Carkner-Nattress
McGill-Hawgood

Soderstrom's 16th straight start.

Special Teams:

FLYERS PP 20th at 17%, Bruins PK 13th at 80%
FLYERS PK 20th at 76%, Bruins PP 10th at 20%

Game Summary:

The FLYERS were terrible on the first period, no other way to put it. The third
line was the only one that spent any time in the offensive zone. The FLYERS,
among other things, were not doing any hitting at all. They were inept on
their first power play chance.

The Bruins opened the scoring when Glen Wesley picked up a loose puck in his
own zone off a FLYER pass that had been knocked down and sent ahead to
Kvarltonov who carried through the neutral zone. As he crossed the FLYERS
blue line he dropped to Ried, and Ried blew it through Soderstrom from just
inside the blue line. There was no screen, bad goal #1 for Soderstrom at
10:08. Mike Emrick started to reminisce about the FLYERS home loss earlier
in the season to the Bruins, a 7-1 blowout. He said it was the worst FLYERS
home defeat he could remember. Little did he know what lied ahead in the
period...

The Bruins got their first chance on the power play just under 2 minutes
later. The FLYERS did a fine job of killing the penalty. Right after it
ended there was a faceoff just inside the Bruins line that the Bruins won
and they sent the puck deep in the FLYERS zone. Soderstrom had to play it
in the right defensive corner as a Bruin would have gotten to it first, but
he blindly wrapped it around the other way. David Shaw picked up the puck
at the point as Soderstrom was just returning to the net, and he fired it
through two screens past the not yet settled goalie for a 2-0 lead at 14:14
of the first.

Then it got REAL ugly. Acton and Beranik got a 2 on 1, Acton on the left
and Beranek right up the middle. Acton made a perfect centering pass and
Beranek got a good deflection off it, but he just missed wide. The Bruins
quickly sent the puck the other way. Heinze stole the puck from Acton who
had picked up the rebound and sent it to Ruzicka flying into the neutral
zone on a breakaway. He made a perfect shot to beat Soderstrom just inside
the far post from the left circle to make it 3-0 at 16:36.

Then just 14 seconds later he struck again. On the ensuing faceoff the puck
ended up in the FLYERS zone. Rozicka stole the puck as Carkner tried to
send it ahead to the FLYERS left winger along the boards. Ruzicka chipped it
back to Kvarltonov along the goal line, who gave it back to Ruzicka as they
got to the crease. Ruzicka just chipped it through Soderstrom for the 4-0
lead at 16:50, and the crowd is quiet.

The FLYERS finally got some pressure at the end of the period on a power play
to make the 13-8 shot total a little deceptive. But a tussle behind the
Bruins net ended the power play chance after a minute.

The FLYERS got off to a strong start in the second period, and now it was the
Bruins that couldn't get much going. The FLYERS finally connected on their
2nd power play chance. With Kimble in the box for holding, the FLYERS got lots
of pressure. Recchi skated in the right circle, handed to Fedyk in the right
corner, he sent it to Hawgood at the point, and Hawgood skated in and shot
through a screen created by Recchi for his first goal as a FLYER. 4-1 Bruins
at 6:50.

The FLYERS got their 3rd power play chance at 9:13. Not a lot of pressure on
that one, but at 11:59 they got their 4th chance. The faceoff was in the Bruins
end. Brind'Amour won it to Hawgood, who pushed it back through traffic to
Brind'AMour along the right offensive boards. Brind'Amour turned and fired
a pass to Galley in the left of the slot, and he beat Moog to cut the lead to
4-2 Bruins at 12:07.

The FLYERS outshot the Bruins 14-6 on the period, but still trailed 4-2 at
the end of it.

In the third period, the FLYERS continued to take it to the Bruins. Paslawski
and Recchi worked with the puck behind the Bruins net, and Recchi finally
sent it to Fedyk in the slot where he blasted it past Moog at 8:37 and all of
a sudden the FLYERS are in the game, 4-3 Bruins.

Garry Galley got the tying goal off a feed from Brind'Amour just 1:55 later.
The crowd jumped to their feet and the Spectrum was rocking, and all of
a sudden the FLYERS have a chance to win it.

But the crowd was quickly silenced just 45 seconds later. The FLYERS broke
down in their own defensive zone. Shaw gave to Kvarltonov who sent the puck
to Ried in the left circle, and Ried made a perfect top shelf shot over
Soderstrom's glove for the game winner at 11:17. It was the Bruins best
play of the game, one that they certainly earned the game winner on.

The FLYERS got most of the pressure in the rest of the game, but just couldn't
beat Moog one last time. The shot total on the period was 17-13 FLYERS but
I felt that the scoring chances were much more in favor of the FLYERS so
I give a lot of credit to Moog for holding on for the win.

So the FLYERS have now lost 2 straight at home after losing only 1 of 10
overall. Next up is a must win game against the Islanders in Nassau Coliseum
on Saturday. They are still only 8 out of 3rd behind the Rangers and Devils,
but now with only 2 games in hand on the Rangers and none on the Devils.
Should the FLYERS win Saturday they will only be 4 points out of 5th with
2 games (4 points) in hand.

Back to the game, the FLYERS were 2 for 5 on the power play and perfect on
4 penalty kills, so a good night for the special teams. Today I saw Kevin
Dineen interviewed on a local newscast, and he said that the team was very
upset with their 1st period performance (called it embarrassing) and said
that that will have to change very quickly.

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