PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Steve Mason rose to the occasion when his team needed him most. Mason made 37 saves, right wingers Jakub Voracek and Matt Read scored goals, and the Flyers beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Friday night to even their first-round playoff series at 2-2. "It was a lot of fun to get back out there in this atmosphere at the Wells Fargo Center," Mason said. The...
- - - Blackhawks 3, Blues 2 (OT) Forward Jonathan Toews scored on a breakaway at 7:36 of overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 3-2 victory over the St Louis Blues in Game 5 at Scottrade Center. Toews, Chicago's captain, scored on a backhand just after Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford stopped a drive by Blues captain David Backes. Defenseman Duncan Keith shoveled the rebound up ice for Toews...
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren announced that defenseman Nicklas Grossmann will not return to tonight's Game 4 vs. Rangers due to a lower-body injury. Grossmann appeared in 13 shifts and 8:03 of ice-time before leaving the game. So fa......
PHILADELPHIA – There were all kinds of questions for Steve Mason as he prepared to make his first appearance in these playoffs in a must-win Game 4 for the Flyers. There were those about his health. There were those about feeling too much pressur......
By Mark Lamport-Stokes LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" would have been an apt question for Los Angeles Kings fans to ask before their team responded with a spirited 6-3 playoff win over the San Jose Sharks. Teetering on the brink of a 4-0 sweep by the in-form Sharks, the Kings breathed new life into their best-of-seven playoff series with a passionate display in front of...
PHILADELPHIA -- Right wingers Jakub Voracek and Matt Read scored goals, Steve Mason made 37 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Rangers 2-1 on Friday night to even their first-round playoff series at 2-2. The teams split the first two games there with the Flyers winning 4-2 in Game 2 last Sunday. Center Dominic Moore scored New York's goal. Voracek's power-play goal gave the Flyers...
Steve Mason stopped 37 shots in his first start of the series, Matt Read and Jakub Voracek scored and the Philadelphia Flyers evened their first-round matchup against the New York Rangers with a 2-1 win in Game 4 on Friday night. He played perhaps his best game of the season, shutting down a Rangers team that pressured him with shots all game. He was a wall in the final tense minutes when the Rangers...
Philadelphia Flyers (1-2) vs New York Rangers (2-1) (Rangers Lead Series, 2-1) 1. TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER Through the first three games of the series, Martin St. Louis leads all players with five points (2g-3a) and is one of three players in......
VOORHEES, N.J. – Steve Mason will start Game 4 for the Flyers. You’re not surprised? Worst kept secret of the week? Fine, consider it reported. Now, let’s move on to other, more pressing issues related to what lay ahead in Game 4 of the Flyers-Ra......
The puck is not getting through. Nevertheless, the Flyers can still clear some room by clearing their brains, more than by whatever high tech adjustments they make on a struggling power play. Of course some Flyers power play goals would help bu......
Game 4: San Jose Sharks at Los Angeles Kings [San Jose leads series 3-0] (10:30 p.m. ET, NBCSN) San Jose didn’t dominate Game 3 like it did in the first two contests of this series, but the Sharks still came away with an overtime win. Kings coach Darryl Sutter pledged that his squad “won’t go away quietly,” but can they really hope to come back? Only three teams have ever bounced back from a 3-0 deficit,...
The New York Rangers made the most of their latest two-day break, and are confident it won't dull any momentum they gained by winning Game 3 over the Flyers. Instead of staying in Philadelphia after their 4-1 victory on Tuesday night, the Rangers hopped back on a train back to New York. ''We're fortunate to be close enough to our opponent and we were able to come home for a couple of days,'' said forward...
Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Steve Mason will start in Game 4 of the first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers after being out since April 12 with an upper-body injury....
Back on their home ice, the Philadelphia Flyers fizzled on the power play. The Flyers ranked 25th in the NHL in power-play efficiency at home during the regular season, scoring on 15.1 percent of their chances. In Tuesday's 4-1 loss to the New York Rangers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series, the Flyers had more power-play opportunities than shots during the man-advantage. They went 0 for...
The Philadelphia Flyers have recalled eight players from their American Hockey League affiliate, the Adirondack Phantoms, according to general manager Paul Holmgren. These eight players will practice with the Flyers for the duration of the playof......
Henrik Lundqvist was busy while stopping 31 of 32 Philadelphia shots that got through to him in the New York Rangers' Game 3 playoff win over the Flyers. Lundqvist allowed just one first-period goal in New York's 4-1 victory in Philadelphia on Tuesday night that gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead in the first-round series between Metropolitan Division rivals. Our guys have that,'' Rangers coach Alain Vigneault...
Joe Thornton and the Sharks have been in command of many playoff series over the past decade. That's why the Sharks are both comfortable and concerned with a chance to finish off the reeling Los Angeles Kings in Game 4 of the first round on Thursday night. ''Don't give us a passing grade yet, because we're still taking the test,'' Sharks coach Todd McLellan said Wednesday after the Sharks' mellow skate...
Theres no guarantee the Flyers first-round series against the New York Rangers makes it past five games, let alone goes the full seven. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was asked about the odd scheduling of the series, something no other divisional semifinal series has. It depends on what goes on in all the series, Bettman said ahead of the Flyers 4-1 loss to the Rangers in Game 3 (see story). Despite...
If you look back at theFlyers' 4-1 lossto the Rangers in Game 3 on Tuesday night, there's one play that could have changed the entire complexion of the game. With the Flyers trailing 3-1 nearly three minutes into the third period, Scott Hartnell blasted a shot that caught the knob of Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist's stick and ricochetedoff the crossbar and back into play. Hartnell thought his shot...
There's something fitting about Theo Epstein declaring that "losing sucks" on the 100th anniversary of the day Wrigley Field opened its doors, because losing is all the Cubs have done at Wrigley. As promised, Carlos Gomez appeals the suspension -- a three-game ban -- he receives for his part in Sunday's Brewers-Pirates brawl. Also appealing are the Pirates' Travis Snider, who got two games, and teammate...