March 28, 2008 Flyers V Devils

The orange and black traveled to Newark tonight to take on a Devil's team that played last night and lost to the Rangers. Brodeur was in the midst of a career long 4 game losing streak. The Flyers have been playing well and looked to be the position to win their second game from the Devils.

The game started as the Flyers would have liked. The drew a lot of pressure on the Devils' goal and scored the game's 1st goal on another really nice play between Briere and Prospal. Prospal beat Brodeur with a wrist shot that seemed to mystify the goalie. That was about as much excitement that the Flyers could muster in the 1st period. Ultimately the Devils woke up and left the 1st period with a 2-1 lead.

The 2nd period didn't start much better as the Devils quickly opened up a 3-1 lead. Shortly thereafter, though, Jim Dowd scored a nice tip in goal to make it 3-2. The second period ended this way and the 3rd period saw both team trade chances and goals. The Flyers were able to tie the game on a floater by Randy Jones that sailed into the net, but the Devils were able to regain the lead with about 4 minutes left on a goal by Gionta (very poor defensive coverage). In the last minute of the game a really nice behind the back pass by Richards to Knuble led to Knuble scoring the game tying goal.

Overtime was pretty uneventful except for a few chances by both sides. Shootout time...

The Devils score on all three of their chances to win the game. Carter and Briere score for the Flyers. The Devils' shooters abused Biron who is just a hot mess when it comes to defending shootouts. At least the Flyers earned a point.

During the 2nd intermission, the feature was on the new Devils' arena. It looks beautiful, but unlike the Wacovia Center, it didn't seem to have the Super Chexx Bubble Hockey games in the concourse.