Philadelphia Flyers (3) - San Jose Sharks (1)

November 5, 1999

The Philadelphia Flyers were up to the task of their first West Coast test. But they barely get a breather before their next one.

Philadelphia defeated the San Jose Sharks, 3-1, Friday night behind the near-shutout goaltending of John Vanbiesbrouck and first-period goals from John LeClair and Raymond Langkow.

Now, it's on to Los Angeles.

"We passed the first test tonight," Philadelphia coach Roger Neilson said. "We'll see if we can pass the second one tomorrow in Los Angeles.

"Our guys knew this was a big game tonight," Neilson added. "It was an important game for us in the standings and also because it was against one of the better teams in the West."

Philadelphia has won five games in a row and are 7-1-1 in their last nine. Meanwhile, they shut down a San Jose team that had been 3-0-1 in its previous four games.

Vanbiesbrouck made 15 saves, and he outdueled San Jose's Steve Shields, who entered the game ranked first among NHL goaltenders in wins and save percentage. Shields, who stopped 29-of-32 shots, fell to 9-4-1.

The Flyers outshot San Jose 10-3 in the first period and struck twice on goals by LeClair and Langkow. LeClair scored his eighth goal of the season with 5:51 expired off a pass from Mark Recchi.

Langkow scored from 8-feet out midway though the opening period after a Dan McGillis shot from the blue line deflected off the skate of a defender and went to Langkow, who was near the goal on the right side. It was Langkow's second of the season and came on a power play.

Philadelphia extended its lead to 3-0 in the second period on a power-play goal by Eric Lindros, his fifth goal of the season. Lindros took a pass from Langkow and scored from point-blank range at 9:10, one second after a two-man Philadelphia advantage expired.

Statistics Summary

Goal Scoring:

1st

2d

3d

FINAL

PHI

2

1

0

3

SJ

0

0

1

1

Shots on Goal:
PHI

10

14

8

32

SJ

3

8

5

16

Power Play Conversions:
PHI

2 - of - 4

SJ

0 - of - 3

Game Details

Goal Scoring:  
 
Scorer-Goal #-(Assist/s)  

Team

Time

 
1st LeClair 8 (Recchi, Lindros)  

PHI

5:51

  Langkow 2 (McGillis, Zelepukin) (PP)  

PHI

10:13

   
2nd Lindros 5 (Langkow, Recchi) (PP)  

PHI

9:10

 
3rd Korolyuk 4 (Sturm, Marleau)  

SJ

18:34

   
OT none  
         
Penalties:  

Team

Time

 
1st Marchment (tripping)  

SJ

2:15

  Marchment (roughing)  

SJ

8:15

  Renberg (goalie interference)  

PHI

18:05

         
2nd Lindros (hooking)  

PHI

4:27

  Matteau (hooking)  

SJ

7:09

  Damphousse (ob.-holding)  

SJ

7:23

  Samuelsson (ob.-holding stick)  

PHI

14:30

         
3rd none  

   

Individual Player Statistics:

G

A

+/-

Shots

Andersson

0

0

even

1

Berube

0

0

even

0

Bureau

0

0

even

1

Burt

0

0

even

1

Desjardins

0

0

-1

2

Gagne

0

0

even

2

Hull

0

0

even

0

Langkow

1

1

even

4

LeClair

1

0

even

3

Lindros

1

1

even

5

McCarthy

0

0

even

1

McGillis

0

1

+1

1

Reechi

0

2

+1

3

Renberg

0

0

-1

3

Richardson

0

0

even

2

Samuelsson

0

0

+1

1

Therien

0

0

-1

1

Zelepukin

0

1

even

1



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