The Philadelphia Flyers may be showing some signs of life but they are winless in nine straight road games after falling to the Anaheim Ducks in a shootout. The ended tied at four after Wayne Simmonds tied the game with less than three seconds left in regulation. Anaheim then won the shootout 2-1 after a scoreless overtime period.
The Flyers are starting to get scoring from players other than the big two of Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek. Simmonds had two goals last night, giving him ten on the season. After a scoreless first period, the game really opened up in the second. Michael Raffl scored first for the Flyers as each team scored three goals. Cam Fowler, Ryan Getzlaf and Sami Vatanen scored for Anaheim while Simmonds scored his first of the night and R.J. Umberger also scored for the Flyers.
Umberger has struggled this season and the fans have been loudly criticizing him as a result but he had a decent game last night and scored his goal on a power play. Umberger was acquired in a trade from Columbus in the offseason, with fan favorite Scott Hartnell going the other way in return.
Patrick Maroon gave Anaheim the lead early in the third period with a power play goal of his own, continuing the Flyers struggles on the penalty kill. Simmonds scored the dramatic equalizer just before time expired. After losing the shootout at least the Flyers can take solace in the fact that this time they got a point out of the game and they were the ones who scored the dramatic goal at the end of the game.