Flyers Go 2-1 Up

My fingernails will never be the same again. Towards the end of the Third period of game 2, I can’t even start to explain how I felt. I think it would be easy enough to say that the butterflies in my stomach turned into tigers who hadn’t eaten for a year.

I wouldn’t call it a best of for the Flyers, but maybe for Hockey as a sport. I don’t think I’ve been able to put so much trust behind a Goalie like Biron since my belief in Roman Checkmanek (I had only just become a Flyers fan and was little naive). I cannot even begin to sing his praises, He was supreme, I don’t think I can say much else without spoiling the moment.

Anyway, The Flyers now have the advantage, carrying the momentum, after a fairly demoralising loss for the Canadiens, into another home game. I don’t think we’ve seen the best out of either teams however, and it could still go either way. But the Flyers carry the momentum and Carey Price is now most definetly shell-shocked. The Canadiens Coach (I can’t remember his name, It’s something like “Carbonara” but don’t qoute me on that) seems quite happy to leave him in for game 4, showing great belief in the rookie. I imagine he could come back from that, but the goals he let in would knock the confidence out of Patrick Roy.

All the Flyers goals were superb, They were all set up beautifuly. My favorite had to be Upshall’s first goal. There was a gap in the Habs defence from a bad line change and Jofrey Lupul blitzed forward, giving a quick pass back to Upshall who fired it over Price’s leg, who never saw it coming. I would add my own little analysis to the Habs goals, but I missed them because I really needed the bathroom.

The Flyers did almost throw it away because of a silly penalty, specificaly Derian Hatcher, who got a little medieval with his hit and recieved a 5 minute major and a game-misconduct. I think it could have been avoided, like many of the Flyers penalties so far in the Playoffs. The penalty gave Montreal two goals, taking the Flyers from 3-0 to 3-2, shocking. Another lead almost dropped. The Flyers need to control themselves a little. Should the Flyers win and go through to play the Rangers or the Penguins, I am terrified of what could happen in terms of the penalties. But back to the present, I shouldn’t dwell in one penalty causing all this damage, the Flyers did hold on and I’m proud of them for that.

I think the Flyers will take their momentum into the next game and win at home.

Despite the Flyers holding a strong advantage, my original prediction of Flyers in 6 still stands.

Here’s some highlights from the game