BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—Daniel Carcillo(notes) and the rest of Philadelphia’s third- and fourth-line players put up some big numbers against stingy Buffalo.
Carcillo scored twice and Ray Emery(notes) made 28 saves to lead the Flyers to their fifth straight victory over the Sabres, 5-2 on Friday night.
Known more for their top two trios that include stars like Jeff Carter(notes), Mike Richards(notes) and Scott Hartnell(notes), the Flyers got three goals and three assists from their pluggers to improve to 8-4-1 with their third straight win.
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“I think we can all play, and play against any line of the league,” Carcillo said about his comrades on the bottom rung of the Philadelphia line ladder. “Fourth line, third line … it’s just a name I guess.”
Carcillo linemate Ian Laperriere(notes) had a pair of assists, center Blair Betts(notes) had a helper, and fourth line pivot Darroll Powe(notes) scored a third-period goal.
“Some nights the puck follows you, hits you, and it goes in,” Laperriere said. “It’s fun to play with guys like Betts and Carcillo. They work hard, and they go to the net.”
The end result was an impressive win over a Buffalo team that came in as the NHL’s stingiest defensive unit.
“We knew they have had success both offensively and defensively, so we talked about getting bodies in front of (Ryan) Miller and we did that,” said Emery, who improved to 5-1-0 in his last six starts. “We got a lead early, chipped in some late goals, and played well defensively.”
Chris Pronger(notes) had a goal and assist, and James van Riemsdyk(notes) also scored, for the Flyers, who’ve outscored their opponents by a 17-5 margin during their three-game winning stretch.
“They were the better team,” Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff said. “You can’t find any argument against that. I’m not going to mask it, it wasn’t a good night for us. We didn’t help ourselves a lot.”
Derek Roy(notes) had a power-play goal and assist, rookie Tyler Myers(notes) also scored with the man advantage for Buffalo, and Ryan Miller(notes) made 32 saves. The Sabres (9-3-1) have lost two of their last three after an 8-1-1 start.
“We can be better,” Buffalo forward Mike Grier(notes) said. “We have a good record and the league is going to watch how we do in these games. We have to show that we’re willing not to back down.”
Carcillo opened the scoring with 1:21 left in the first period, deflecting defenseman Braydon Coburn’s(notes) shot from the top of the left circle. It was Carcillo’s first goal in 47 games, and first regular season tally for Philadelphia.
Pronger made it 2-0 with his third just 28 seconds into the second period.
Roy cut the lead in half 4 minutes later, but van Riemsdyk gave the Flyers a 3-1 edge with 5:05 left in the middle frame when his cross-ice pass from below the right circle went off Miller’s right leg and into the net.
Powe added his fourth with a slap shot that handcuffed Miller from the top of the left circle 2:34 into the third period, and Myers made it 4-2 exactly 8 minutes later.
Carcillo capped the scoring with an empty-net goal with 48 seconds remaining to record his first multi-goal game since the 2007-08 season finale against Anaheim.
“We did a good job of being physical and getting in their face,” Carcillo said. “We want to get on a roll and gain some points and momentum.”
NOTES: Former Sabres co-captain Danny Briere(notes) missed his third game for the Flyers because of a groin strain. … Sabres C Tim Connolly(notes) played in his 499th career NHL game. He earned his 300th career NHL point with an assist on Roy’s goal. … Carcillo’s last goal was Jan. 18 at Edmonton when he was with Phoenix. … Philadelphia snapped a two-game road losing streak.
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you completely missed the point. both the rangers and devils had more points than the sabres, so as you admitted, it is partly about the fact that it's a weak division. And it's early in the season. So the sabres were ahead of the Flyers by a measly 2 points. And now they're even. but my point was about the resiliency of this team - what makes it a really great team. one year after its basement season it was within a few games of the stanley cup, and that's without the addition of dream team quality players. The Pens couldn't do that with 1 superstar goalie, AND 1 superstar forward. They couldn't even get back to the playoffs without 2 superstar forwards AND a superstar goalie - who was most of the difference vs. the Flyers. THAT is what makes the Flyers a great team, and why the Penguins are primadonna chumps. Just like the Lemieux/Jagr era. You had to have so much disappointment before you get the chance to shine, whereas the Flyers have been playing solid hockey for years. And don't try to tell me that the Pens "kicked the ever living piss out of the Flyers" whatever that means. Without the phantom holding call late in game 2 that gave the Pens an equalizer goal and sent it to OT, the series is tied 1-1 going back to Philly, and the outcome would have been totally different. Sure the Pens have talent after sucking for so long, I'm not denying that, but I'm not about to take your know nothing horsesh1t either. The Flyers and the Flyers fans are better than a bunch of yinzer p@ssies like you and your ilk. Now @#$%off.
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Then again, your not a Flyers fan, your not a Sabres fan, oh wait, you are just one of those "dusch-bags" that posts on every other teams message boards, and you only find them on the Pens boards when they win. I look forward to your "insightful" comments on when the Penguins lose, like they did the other night, 5-2.
Yeah, sure, Pens beat the Flyers the last two years. Then again, if you were not a huge bandwagon jumper, you would realize there was hockey before 2007 and there was a hockey team in Pittsburgh (I can understand that you might not have known that since no one went to the games and they were almost relocated and no one went to the games) that was the worst in the league, and how the Flyers crushed the Penguins from 1997-2007. I guess two good years helps cover the scars from all the beatings you took the ten years prior.
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Dutch, the Athletics left Philly in 1955, since then we have 1 NFL title, 2 Stanley Cups, 2 World Series Championships and 3 NBA titles. Other than those 8 times you are correct
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Why exactly do Flyers fans need to shut up? Wow, you beat us in the playoffs, good for you. I fail to see how that has anything to do with the previous issue of the Penguins franchise tanking it for 5 years so they could rebuild a team with top 5 picks.
But really, I guess you're right. We should be proud to watch our team tank for 6 years so we can find the right mix of marketable stars that the League wants to win so they can give us the same opportunity they did to you guys. You've opened my eyes to what a champion really looks like.
Get over yourself. If you knew you were real champions you wouldn't care so much about what people on a message board have to say about your team.
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Its fun when you first get into hockey isn't it? I remember when I started watching and playing hockey. I wish I could experience finding out about hockey the first time like you just did two years ago when the pens finally got a decent team. Here is a fun fact. Pittsburgh also has a baseball team. I know that it's hard to stick by your team when they are doing terrible but you should try it. It will show you are a true fan, not just some band wagon douche which you clearly are.
You are the reason why fans of almost every other team hate the pens and their fans. Excluding the 5k - 10k people who still supported the pens during their 6 year failure streak, all pens fans are just a bunch of arse holes. (This includes you)
It just shows how much of a tool you are when you have to troll on a story not involving your team just to talk @#$%. So, can you please GTFO and go back to the hole you crawled out of.
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Silly Flyers fans, at this point is it even worth mentioning Pitts sucking balls and picking up top picks? They kicked the ever living piss out of the Flyers two years in a row en route to a Stanley Cup... it's time to for Flyers fans to STFU.
kilauea50, are you retarded? That Buffalo team is where they are in the standings because of their points, not some "crappy division" conspiracy. True, because they lead the division they are placed in the top 3, however, even if they weren't leading the division they would still be just ahead of your Flyers. So, if the Flyers are "a really great team" and the Sabres are ahead in points, then......? Fill in the blank, d-bags.
Now to the biggest d-bag, giocatore28, who is somehow trying to insult a Pens team that will propably rape his Flyers for a third year in a row in the playoffs:
If you did your research, you would have discovered I am not a Sabres fan. Then again, I wouldn't expect anyone from Filthadelphia to have the brain power for such an easy task. I am laughing at your attempt to get me riled up with comments about another city's sports misfortunes... when has that ever worked? Never.
Currently, my hockey team is higher than yours in the standings, and we have more Stanley Cups, Super Bowls, and World Series titles than your pathetic murder-a-day filthy city. DEAL WITH IT, skank.
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Also, I realize you're just trying to troll me, but Philadelphia won a championship in 2008, so I'm intimately familiar with what the term "champions" means, thank you.
As far as losing in the past couple years, I hardly see where I was crying about it. They didn't play well and deserved to lose, that's hockey. I was just pointing out that the Pens were undeserving of what was subsequently handed to them, and that the argument that Deal With It was making about was ludicrous.
So who do you pull for Dutch? Do you have a team, or are you just ready to jump on whichever bandwagon is farthest ahead at the moment because you're not grown up enough to take losing like a man?
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You are a moron. So quick to forget that Pittsburgh had 4 seasons in a row where they missed the playoffs and got rewarded with picks - once with the worst overall record, and twice with the second worst. Prior to that 1 disaster season for the Flyers, we went to the playoffs for 11 straight years, and bounced back the next year to within a few games of the Stanley Cup while missing our best defenseman for most of the series. The only standing in our way was the Penguins. That year, no one thought we would get by Washington (on the road) or top seeded Montreal (also on the road) either. For their string of awful seasons, the Penguins only drafted Marc-Andre Fleury 1st (who has been playing outstanding in goal during the playoffs and is a big part of why the Flyers didn't advance beyond Pittsburgh), Evgeni Malkin 2nd and Cindy Crosby 1st in successive years. Name me the superstar that the Flyers got rewarded with for our one blemish year? The Flyers have played fewer games than many teams above them in the standings. The only reason the Sabres are as high as they are is because they're the top team in a crappy division. So yeah, I'd count our team as a really great team. And the Flyers didn't play in the World Series, that was the Phillies. A lot of us are fans of both, but please don't mix it up. Phillies fans post on baseball boards, Flyers fans on hockey boards. So before you spout your drivel, do some homework.
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"Post #11, since when is Philly "a really great team"? If the Flyers were so much better than the Sabres, wouldn't they be higher in the standings? And since when is a team that finished dead last in the league and got rewarded with top picks, a great team? I mean, everyone is calling the Toronto Maple Leafs "This year's Philadelphia Flyers" after your hilarious 2006-2007 season. Don't think for a second all of us in North America are going to let you guys forget about that..."
Ok, first of all, if you're going to try and make a point about calling one team better than the other, consider that both teams have only played 13 games to this point, and are separated by 2 points in the standings. Hardly an insurmountable lead, or any real indication of whether one team is better than another.
Secondly, I don't know who you root for, but if you want to criticize the finishing dead last and gaining top picks thing, all you have to consider is the team that won last season's Bettman cup championship. I agree that they're not a great team (because they didn't earn it, deserve it, and because it was handed to them by the league), but I know there's a lot of guys out there who wouldn't agree with me on that.
Anyhow, feel free to not let us forget the worst year we've ever had (three years ago, oh, the pain, especially when we've made the playoffs twice since then). I guess if we were going to suck for a year we did it right and got a top pick, rather than languishing at the bottom of the standings year after year and never getting any better a-la Atlanta, LA, NYI, TB, Phoenix, Toronto, etc...
Dealt with.
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McFluery has a 2.36 GAA, Emery has a 2.39 GAA this season. Hummmm?
And then you have to forgive poor old bitter "deal with it", who watched his team get spanked last night. LOL, is that all you have for a comeback, how we had ONE bad year, and then managed to make the conference finals the next.
Don't think for a second none of us in North America have not forgotten the Buffalo Sabres have not even made the playoffs since that ONE horrible season for the Flyers back in 2006-2007. When is a team that could even make the playoffs for the last two years, a good team? Maybe you ought to consider doing what your friend "Dusch" team did. Suck for several years, pick up multiple first picks.
Yep, then again, you all have lots of experiences in Buffalo winning championship games yourself. WIDE RIGHT! WIDE RIGHT! LOL.
LOL, pathetic Sabre "fan".
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In the meantime, lets get some perspective here, folks. It is way too early to start talking about teams that may or may not make the playoffs, much less win the Cup. It's the start of November, not mid-to-late March. Injuries are going to start piling up, some unknown players are going to have career years while some star players will go in the tank. There's a long way to go. Check back at the end of the first week in April.
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LOLwat?
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Post #7, your parents hate you so much.
Post #11, since when is Philly "a really great team"? If the Flyers were so much better than the Sabres, wouldn't they be higher in the standings? And since when is a team that finished dead last in the league and got rewarded with top picks, a great team? I mean, everyone is calling the Toronto Maple Leafs "This year's Philadelphia Flyers" after your hilarious 2006-2007 season. Don't think for a second all of us in North America are going to let you guys forget about that...
Post #17, I dunno if this is the Flyers "year". I honestly don't see Philly getting past teams like Pittsburgh and Washington.
Sounds to me like Flyers fans needed SOMETHING to talk about after the World Series....
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