From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 11/20
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:43:58 GMT



The FLYERS extended the win streak to 5 games last night with a 7-3 blowout
of the New York Rangers. The FLYERS are now at .500 and have made up for the
0-5-2 stretch that preceded the win streak. In the standings they are in 4th
place (15th overall) with 19 points, 4 points ahead of the Islanders and
idle Caps, 1 behind the Rangers, 3 behind the idle Devils and 10 behind the
idle Penguins.

No injury or lineup changes. Or line changes for that matter. Coach Dineen
is going with the if it ain't broke approach, but I'm concerned about the
lack of playing time for Butsayev and Lomakin - these guys are gonna be
cold if they don't get some playing time.

Scoring summary:

It only took 57 seconds for Mark Recchi to get the FLYERS on the board first
for the 4th straight game. Gary Galley fed Recchi at the FLYERS blue line.
Recchi carried through the neutral zone and handed to Fedyk just across the
Rangers blue line. Fedyk dropped it right back, and Recchi cruised for a
second before firing a wrister from close to the left faceoff dot high to
Richter's right for the 1-0 lead.

Then for the 3rd straight night, the FLYERS got a 2-0 lead in the first when
Fedyk picked up a loose puck and fed Lindros as he was coming out of the FLYERS
zone. Lindros carried just to the right of the middle of the ice, faked left,
drifted right and rocketed a wrister high to Richter's left, hitting the only
open spot he had. 2-0 FLYERS after 1, clearly dominating with a 12-5 shot
advantage.

Kocur and Carkner opened the 2nd period with a tussle that was too close to
call. Carkner got the first good shot in, but Kocur may have landed a couple
at the end. Tough to tell how many actually landed after it became a 
wrestling match.

Then it was Fedyks turn to score, but not without some hard work. Ryan McGill,
at the point with the puck, fed a wide open Fedyk in front of the Rangers net.
Richter stoned Fedyk on his first shot, Fedyk picked up the rebound and shot
again from a bad angle and Richter stoned him again. The puck squibbed to
Recchi behind the net, and Recchi was taken down by a Ranger, but from his
knees he slid the puck to the crease where it went off of Richter's stick
(maybe skate, tough to see even on replay) as Richter was trying to recover
and landed right on Fedyk's stick, and he had almost the whole net to shoot
at. 3-0 FLYERS just over two minutes into the second.

Dmitri Yushkevich had another fine game, and just over a minute after the
Fedyk goal he stole the puck in center ice and took a slapper just over
the blue line. Richter made the save WAY out of his net to cut off the
angle, but the shot bounced off his pads onto the stick of a charging
Brind'Amour who swung around Richter and swept the puck past him for a
4-0 FLYERS lead at 3:35 of the second. The FLYERS seem well in control.

Tie Domi tried to pick a fight with Claude Boivin after Boivin boarded
him 12 minutes into the period, but big Dave Brown stepped in and said
"How 'bout me!" Domi barely got one punch in then tried to hold on, but
Brownie did his Houdini act and got one arm out of the jersey. Then it
was hammer time, Brown clearly got the best of this one.

Mark Messier finally got the Rangers on the board with Claude Boivin in
the box for the above boarding. The FLYERS were doing a good job of killing
when Mike Richter fed Turcott, and Turcott fed Messier at the blue line.
Messier went in on Roussel all by himself, deked left and backhanded the puck
top shelf to make it 4-1.

Then a very questionable call hurt the FLYERS. Kevin Dineen was trying to
chop the puck out of the zone and he hit a Ranger with his stick on the
followthrough. Dineen got 5 and a game, but Mike Emrick said that according
to the rules you are not supposed to get the major if you hit somebody on a
followthrough. The major was served by Doug Evans and came with 2:25 left in
the second. The Rangers got some chances but failed to connect. 4-1 FLYERS
and the shots advantage is now 30-16, but 2:35 still left to kill on the major.

The Rangers got off to a slow start to open the 3rd period, and it looked
like the FLYERS were going to kill it off. But then Turcott (from Leetch)
carried into the FLYERS zone and hit a streaking Doug Weight right at the
goalmouth, and Weight chipped it in to cut the lead to 4-2 at 1:19.

34 seconds later the lead was cut to 1 when Gartner (from Patrick) centered
the puck. It bounced around and ended up on Messier's stick, and he fired it
past Roussel to give the Rangers some life.

But that little bit of life was quickly snuffed out. Greg Paslawski controlled
behind the Rangers net, and stood there for a couple of seconds before finally
being challenged. He was forced to the right side of the net when he saw
Brind'Amour all clear very low on the outside of the circle not too far
from the boards. Rod shot the puck across the goal where Doug Evans was
crashing, and Evans made no mistake to make it 5-3 at 6:02.

Less than 2 minutes later, with James Patrick in the box for interference,
the FLYERS finally connected on a power play. Brind'Amour sent the puck
to Benning at the point, and Benning one timed it towards the goal. But
Paslawski happened to be moving right into the path of the puck, and deflected
it with the shaft of his stick about chest high and under his arm. The
puck was probably destined for the high right of the net but now it bounced
down to the ice and hopped past Richter on the left side of the net who had
no chance to stop it. 6-3 FLYERS.

Then I saw something I've never seen before. Eric Lindros had been going
at it with Jeff Beukeboom for a while when he slammed Beukeboom into the
boards. Beukeboom chased Lindros down, threw off his gloves and started
swinging. It looked to me like Eric took one or two swings himself, but
when it was all over, Beukeboom was in the box for 5 for fighting and
Lindros was still on the ice!! My only guess was that referee Terry
Gregson felt that Lindros was just trying to hold on and wasn't trying
to hit. The FLYERS were useless on the ensuing power play, but with
a 6-3 lead maybe they were just feeling merciful.

Evans closed the scoring when the Rangers cleared the zone and McGill picked
up the puck. He sent it to Recchi as Recchi was coming out of the Ranger
zone, and he slid it to Lindros who had circled and was heading back in.
He sorta creeped into the zone and found Evans who was crashing the net
again. Final score 7-3 FLYERS, shots were 45-25.

So the FLYERS have won 5 straight, longest streak since they won 6 last
Feb. The crazy 8's line collected 8 points, now up to 43 during the streak.
Lindros would have tied Teemu Selanne at 15 goals and 12 assists had Selanne
not scored his 16th against Detroit. The Rangers were 3-6 on the PP, and the
FLYERS were only 1-6.

pete clark jr - rsh FLYERS contact
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