Thank You!
For risking your life for us every day,
For fighting the bad people away,
For taking time out of your life to help us,
For making sure we don’t get hurt,
For doing a truly amazing job,
For being outstanding with your work,
And for putting others before yourself,
Arianna Cantor
Grade 8
St. Bridget Parish School
February 23, 2009
February 5, 2009
Ill-timed illness no excuse for Flyers
By Joseph Turkos
In a possible preview of the Eastern Conference finals, the Boston Bruins skated into the Wachovia Center Wednesday for their first bout with the Flyers.
Still infested with Influenza, the flummoxed Flyers fell, 3-1, to the Eastern Conference leading Bruins. The Bruins entered the game leading the league in points with 80.
Playing the Bruins could not come at a worse time as the flu bug has been running through the Flyers locker room. The latest victims, captain Mike Richards, right winger Scottie Upshall and defenseman Braydon Coburn, all were scratches because of the flu bug.
Flyers head coach John Stevens knew the depleted, weakened Flyers, who returned from a road trip where they went 1-2, would face a physical, healthy, opportunistic Boston squad.
“They have a very committed team. They don’t take chances,” Stevens said of Boston. “Most of their, if not all of their chances, in the penalties that they draw come from checking people off the puck and when you do that you’re gonna win a lot of hockey games.
“And they gave some gifted offensive people that are committed, right now, to the checking so when those pucks turn over. … they have people that can hurt going the other way.”
After an evenly played but flat first period, the teams spent most of the second period in the flyers zone. Dictating play in the third period, the Bruins broke a 1-1 tie en route to their victory.
While some players joked about becoming the next victim of illness, nobody used a thin lineup as an excuse.
“Obviously, Richards is our captain, one of our top players. We’d love to have him in the lineup,” forward Joffrey Lupul said. “But basically stuff like that can happen anytime. Last year in the playoffs we lost Kimmo Timonen before Game 1. Those are the things you’ve got to be able to overcome.”
While no expects a Wally Pip, Lou Gehrig scenario on Broad Street, this is the time for depth to emerge. Just look up I-95.
New Jersey tops the Atlantic Conference without the services of the great Martin Brodeur, who suffered a torn elbow muscle in November. Backup Scott Clemmensen has skated in and is 22-10-1 in net for the Devils.
Stevens said: “I think anytime somebody goes down it’s an opportunity for somebody else.”
That time in now, or more precisely, Saturday. The Flyers return to the ice, in Boston.
In a possible preview of the Eastern Conference finals, the Boston Bruins skated into the Wachovia Center Wednesday for their first bout with the Flyers.
Still infested with Influenza, the flummoxed Flyers fell, 3-1, to the Eastern Conference leading Bruins. The Bruins entered the game leading the league in points with 80.
Playing the Bruins could not come at a worse time as the flu bug has been running through the Flyers locker room. The latest victims, captain Mike Richards, right winger Scottie Upshall and defenseman Braydon Coburn, all were scratches because of the flu bug.
Flyers head coach John Stevens knew the depleted, weakened Flyers, who returned from a road trip where they went 1-2, would face a physical, healthy, opportunistic Boston squad.
“They have a very committed team. They don’t take chances,” Stevens said of Boston. “Most of their, if not all of their chances, in the penalties that they draw come from checking people off the puck and when you do that you’re gonna win a lot of hockey games.
“And they gave some gifted offensive people that are committed, right now, to the checking so when those pucks turn over. … they have people that can hurt going the other way.”
After an evenly played but flat first period, the teams spent most of the second period in the flyers zone. Dictating play in the third period, the Bruins broke a 1-1 tie en route to their victory.
While some players joked about becoming the next victim of illness, nobody used a thin lineup as an excuse.
“Obviously, Richards is our captain, one of our top players. We’d love to have him in the lineup,” forward Joffrey Lupul said. “But basically stuff like that can happen anytime. Last year in the playoffs we lost Kimmo Timonen before Game 1. Those are the things you’ve got to be able to overcome.”
While no expects a Wally Pip, Lou Gehrig scenario on Broad Street, this is the time for depth to emerge. Just look up I-95.
New Jersey tops the Atlantic Conference without the services of the great Martin Brodeur, who suffered a torn elbow muscle in November. Backup Scott Clemmensen has skated in and is 22-10-1 in net for the Devils.
Stevens said: “I think anytime somebody goes down it’s an opportunity for somebody else.”
That time in now, or more precisely, Saturday. The Flyers return to the ice, in Boston.
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