The Flyers find themselves in yet another hole going down in consecutive home games. To make matters worse, the Flyers were without Chris Pronger last night due to a "back" injury. With Carter and Nodl still day-to-day, this team is flailing into a much to premature goodbye.
Boston is now 5-1 against the Flyers this season and have a 2-0 series lead. The first game was utter dominance by the Bruins as the Flyers did not look ready to play. But game 2 was a heart breaker, a game that was dominated by the orange and black was quickly ended by a bone-crushing OT goal.
Now to Boston and to begin another comeback attempt. In light, the Flyers have seen James van Riemsdyk fire 3 goals in the first two games of this series and knock his playoff total up to 7 goals in 9 games. Brian Boucher has looked solid and has only been beaten by either fluke goals or his own defensemen making fatal errors, which was the case for all three goals on Monday.
The Bruins have found a new scorer in David Krejci, who now has 4 goals in 2 games after tallying just 13 goals all season. Brad Marchant has also had a coming out party as he has stepped up with 2 goals and a bevy a hard-nose plays.
Pronger status is a huge issue going into game 3. The Flyers powerplay fell back a few flight of stairs last night after not converting once including a chance in the final two minutes of regulation.
Jody Shelley returned on Monday, however, he quickly found the bench and saw very few minutes in the final two periods and overtime. Carter and Nodl and "everyone else who didn't skate Monday" according to Paul Holmgren is "day-to-day." Take that with a pinch of salt.
Boucher will be the starter in game 3 despite leaving game 2 with a hand/finger injury. He returned and played solid in the loss.
Game 3 is in Boston wednesday at 700.
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