FLYERS BURRIED BY AVALANCHE

Lose 5-1 To Visiting Colorado

PHILADELPHIA- An ugly game in front of their home crowd! The Avs held a 3-0 lead after the first. Brett Clark scored first at 9:05 & Teemu Selanne & Milan Hejduk scored PP goals at 12:46 & 15:16. In the 2nd, Selanne added another PP goal at 11:44. Mark Recchi got the Flyers on the board as a Colorado penalty expired at 8:06 of the 3rd, but all wind was sucked out of the Flyers sails just 1:56 later when Petr Sykora made it 5-1.

Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 24 shots (5/6 GRs) for the win & Antero Niittymaki was pathetic, with 23 saves (2/6 GRs) to see his GA climb to 3.72.

After the game Flyers coach Keith Jones slammed the door to the locker room & berated his team! The last time this same thing happened, after the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Flyers here 7-1 on 3/02 (The Flyers last loss), Jones called out his vets & the Flyers responded with their own 7-1 win against the Rangers. And since that game, the Flyers went 8-0 & out-scored their opponent's 40-17 before tonight's landslide.

Jones was later overheard in the hallway pleading with President/GM Jack Santos to "Get me a new ~effin~ back up! This guy is killing us & I can't play Giggy every ~effin~ night!"

The loss is the first for the Flyers in this 4th Block after winning their first two.