Saturday Night Special

Jackets triple up Flyers

 
 


Columbus Blue Jackets (3) vs Philadelphia Flyers (1)........
The Flyers played host to the Blue Jackets on Saturday Night at Wachovia Center, where the Flyers have not been great as of late going 4-5-0-1 in their last ten on home ice and Philly would suffer yet another loss on home ice against the 'Jackets.
Mike Richards opened the scoring for the visitors at 12:52 as he picked up a rebound off of a Marc Methot slapper and snapped it into the open side before Philly's Corey Crawford could get to it. Matt Cooke doubled Columbus' lead just before the end of the period (19:26) as Eric Nystrom hit him on the fly with a perfect pass down the wing and Cooke drilled the puck over Crawford's out-stretched glove. The Flyers led the shot clock 9-6 after twenty minutes.
In the second period the hole for the Flyers got even deeper at 11:56 as Chris Kunitz was sent in all alone on Crawford by Methot and snapped the puck five hole. The 'Jackets peepered the Flyers' net with seventeen shots in the middle frame and Crawford made several outstanding stops to keep his team from being blown out of their own rink.
Captain Ryan Getzlaf scored at 7:28 of the third to cut the deficit to two as Semyon Varlamov kicked out a Karl Alzner slapper right onto the stick of Getzlaf and the Flyers went backhand, forehand on the Jacket tender before stuffing the puck under Varlamov. That was as close Philadelphia would get as their most recent losing streak reaches two.
MOLSON'S THREE STARS:
1 - Semyon Varlamov (Clb)........ made 34 saves to win his 37th game of the year.
2 - Mike Richards (Clb)........... scored once and added an assist, had three shots on net.
3 - Chris Kunitz (Clb)............. had one goal on four shots and added two great open ice hits.

Reporting For The WCHL Network.....
Peter Puck

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