Flyers Win Again

I feel like that's a good old fashioned headline. Maybe one of those headlines that you might see spinning and then landing on a stack of others as one of succession of papers' headlines that summarize a time period for you in a movie. Does that make sense? Of course it does.

Well as far as your standard recap goes, the Flyers looked hungry last night, and then stagnant, and then won in the end. The key to game for them was getting shots on Alex Auld, who kind of looked like an emergency call-up from the local men's league at times - Lupul's post on the 2 on 1, Carter's pass on the 3 on 1, Carle's goal.... The Flyers success wasn't generated from anything pretty, although it wasn't for lack of chances. They were simply just putting the puck at the net, and when you do that good things happen. Carter's, Gagne's, Lupul's, and the previously mentioned Carle goal were all just matters of confusion and bouncing pucks in and around the crease. To the Sens credit they put up a decent fight, which will actually help to serve as a nice segway for Marty Biron to get back into the net on Friday, but ultimately no amount of mustache hair could save them. They are a team that is lost right now. How you could be lost with some of the guns they have, I don't know. But they are not playing well and would imagine are not fun to cheer for right now.

The game was an entertaining, and at times even fast, game to watch. Gratton, Powe, and Kalinski got their first assists of the year and Vienna Nodl scored his first ever NHL goal. 13 Flyers earned points last night, which is pretty amazing. The odd ones out were numbers 22, 23, 32, 41, and 45. Although Asham and Cote did earn a plus each. Speaking of Riley Cote, his face looks like someone applied melted chocolate under his eyes in big, round, smooth circles. He looks worse than he did Sunday.

So the Flyers were able to beat a slowly crumbling team without Metro, Upshall, Briere, Hatcher, and Rathje. But the Flyers face a bigger test this week on Friday in the form of the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hawks are 8-1-1 in their last ten and appear to be surging just in time for the Winter Classic (tickets anyone?)

* If John Kalinski isn't a foot higher off the ice than Steve Downie was when Downie hit McAmmond last preseason then there's no such thing as sex in the Claus household.