From: seth@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (peter.r.clark..jr)
Subject: FLYERS notes 10/10
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Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:07:38 GMT



To paraphrase Gene Hart, it was as if the Hockey Gods were sitting around
trying to decide how Eric's home debut should go. They said, well, how about
a hat trick. No, nothing big like that. How about Eric getting a breakaway
and scoring the game winning goal as he's flying through the air. Yea, that's
what we'll do...

Injuries/scratches:

Andre Lomakin returned to the lineup, took Glenn Mulvenna's place on the 3rd
line.
No other changes. Mark Pederson is still a healthy scratch, as far as I know.
Tommy Soderstrom's parents and brother are in Philadelphia courtesy of FLYERS
president Jay Snider while Tommy for undergoing medical procedures. Anybody
ever work for somebody who would give your family bus fare to see you if they
couldn't afford it while you were sick? Wish I worked for them...

Captains:

There will still be no captain for the FLYERS. Keith Acton, Terry Carkner and
Kevin Dineen (my choice for the 'C') will alternate two A's.
Bobby Taylor was speculating that there will not be a captain until Eric is
ready to be it.

#1 Goalie:
Coach Dineen has not announced who his #1 goalie is.

Summary:

The first two periods again belonged to the other team, but in this case
the Devils only slightly outplayed the FLYERS in the first period, and
the FLYERS did a better job of capitalizing on the chances that they got.
The third period was all FLYERS, again.

The scoring was opened when Vyatcheslav Butsayev stole the puck around the
blue line to start a 3 on 2 with Lomakin and Paslawski. He stared down
goalie Terreri and passed to Lomakin who was crashing through the slot.
Lomakin beat Terreri for the 1-0 lead.

The Devils evened it on the first of 3 bouncing puck goals. A Guerin shot
rebounded of goalie Roussel and went towards the boards straight to his
right. Ojanen picked up the puck and flipped it a few feet in the air to
right in front of the net, where McKay picked it out mid air and put it
right through Roussel.

The FLYERS took the lead again while shorthanded. Right after the start of
the Devils power play the FLYERS dumped the puck into the Devils zone. Brind'
Amour doing his usual great job of forechecking took the puck away from the
Devils defenseman behind the net and swept it out to a flying Dineen who
stashed it home for the 2-1 lead right about 1/2 way through the first.

But on tha same power play, the Devils evened the score again on another
goal where this time Claude Lemiuex just flipped the puck in the air
to right in front of Roussel where Zdeno Ciger picked it up and threw it
past him.

In the second period the Devils mostly outplayed the FLYERS, who just
could not (once again) seem to get it out of their own zone. The Devils
first goal came from something I would expect to see in the minors.
Chorske took a pass, went into the FLYERS zone, BLEW past Terry Carkner
and went in on Roussel. Came in from his right side of the goal, but
dragged the puck behind him. Roussel moved with the body instead of
with the puck, and opened up a big hole to his left (Chorske's right,
he's moving right to left) that Chorske just flipped the puck into,
as Roussel just kept sliding.

Then the tying goal from the Flyers, Brind'Amour and Dineen working behind
the net. Dineen passes back to Benning at the point, and Benning just
rockets the puck past Terreri.

Next another bouncy goal from the Devils. The time Fetisov flips the puck
towards the net from inside the blue line where Zelepukin flips it through
Roussel for a 4-3 lead into the third.

Brian Benning then tied it up 8 minutes into the third to snap an ohfer 9
on the power play. This time, though, it was Recchi who picked up a Fedyk
shot and swept it back to Benning who blasted it home from just inside
the blue line.

Then came THE GOAL ( :-) ). Brent Fedyk was just flipping the puck out from
deep in the FLYERS zone. Scott Neidermeyer knocked the puck down out of the
air with his glove just in front of his own blue line (it was a high flip
from Fedyk), but just as it hit the ice Lindros was driving straight at him,
and Lindros popped the puck 5 feet into the air past Neidermeyer. He never
broke stride as the puck landed and he picked it up and drove straight at
Terreri. About 8 feet from the net a Devils defenseman coming from behind
dove at Lindros, but Eric just skated around him between the defenseman
and Terreri. He then showed shot and Terreri went down and tried to poke,
but Eric held on, skated around Terreri as well, used his long arms to
reach around Terreri, and as Terreri took Eric's legs out with his stick
he finally shot the puck into an open net for the game winner.

But even the empty netter to close the scoring wasn't easy. Steve Kasper
shot from the right boards at the blue line. He missed left, but he
never stopped moving towards the goal. He dug it out from behind the net
and passed to Brind'Amour who was waiting at the left circle. This time
it was easy, and Brind'Amour stashed it home to end the scoring.

Good games: Recchi, even though he didn't score, Lomakin, Benning and
Shawn Cronin

Not so good games: Roussel who could have stopped all 4 goals, Hynes
and Lindros (who again had a very ordinary night except for the play
of the night...one for the highlight films for sure)

Oh, each team had a 53 second 5 on 3, but failed to capitalize.

done, now I can start paying more attention to the FLYERS/Caps game

pete clark jr - rsh FLYERS contact