Philadelphia Flyers (5) - New Jersey Devils (3)

October 30, 1999

The Philadelphia Flyers are having a hard time holding on to third-period leads. It's no problem coming back and winning. For the second straight game, the Flyers lost a lead in the final period and rallied to win with a 5-3 decision over the New Jersey Devils on Saturday night.

After John Madden's goal gave the Devils a 3-2 lead with just over 11 minutes left in the game, the Flyers scored three straight times to pull out the game. Mark Greig put a rebound past Martin Brodeur to tie the game. Dan McGillis then fired a slap shot from just beneath the blue line off a faceoff to regain the lead. John LeClair's slap shot from the left side gave the Flyers a two-goal lead.

The Flyers also lost a third-period lead on Thursday night against Colorado, only to come back. Colorado evened a 4-0 Flyer lead with four goals in the third period before Valeri Zelepukin's goal in overtime gave Philadelphia the win.

"I don't know if we like winning games that way, but it says a lot about the hockey club, about our character and determination," said Greig, who scored at 9:15 of the third period. "I think we'll obviously try to correct giving up the lead."

The Flyers won Saturday night despite the absence of captain Eric Lindros, who missed a second straight game because of a virus.

Statistics Summary

Goal Scoring:

1st

2d

3d

FINAL

PHI

1

1

3

5

NJ

1

0

2

3

Shots on Goal:
PHI

7

9

10

26

NJ

14

7

8

29

Power Play Conversions:
PHI

0 - of - 3

NJ

0 - of - 2

Game Details

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

Team

Time

 
1st McCarthy 2 (Langkow)  

PHI

:51

  Sharifijanov 1 (Pandolfo, Odelein)  

NJ

15:18

   
2nd Recchi 6 (Langkow, Desjardins)  

PHI

15:18

 
3rd Sykora 2 (Gomez, Odelein)  

NJ

6:20

  Madden 1 (Niedermayer, Pandolfo)  

NJ

8:47

  Greig 2 (Gagne, Andersson)  

PHI

9:15

McGillis 2 (Recchi, LeClair)  

PHI

13:59

LeClair 5

 

PHI

17:11

         
Penalties:  

Team

Time

 
1st Renberg (holding stick)  

PHI

12:27

  McGillis (roughing)  

PHI

18:41

         
2nd Odelein, major (fighting)  

NJ

8:33

Berube, major (fighting)  

PHI

8:33

  Greig (holding)  

PHI

10:20

  Oliwa, major (fighting)  

NJ

14:33

  McCarthy, major (fighting)  

PHI

14:33

     

 

 

3rd McKay, major-game misconduct (slashing)  

NJ

19:58

  New Jersey bench, served by Sykora (delay of game)  

NJ

19:58

   

Individual Player Statistics:

G

A

+/-

Shots

Andersson

0

1

+1

0

Berube

0

0

even

0

Bureau

0

0

even

1

Burt

0

0

-1

1

Desjardins

0

1

+2

1

Gagne

0

1

+1

1

Greig

1

0

+1

2

Hull

0

0

even

1

Langkow

0

2

+1

4

LeClair

1

1

even

2

McCarthy

1

0

even

4

McGillis

1

0

+1

2

Reechi

1

1

+1

2

Renberg

0

0

even

2

Richardson

0

0

-1

0

Samuelsson

0

0

+1

0

Therien

0

0

+2

2

Zelepukin

0

0

+1

2



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