In a recent game, The Flyers showed the NBC television audience, as well as many fans across the country, what the rest of the NHL has experienced all season, and that is that this team is extremely dangerous when it’s on. Short staffed, who would have thought?
Team captain Mike Richards just set a modern NHL record by becoming the first player to score his third three-on-five goal in a short hand of his entire career, marking the Flyers’ win by 5-2 on the new New York Times. York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. This was definitely a significant game for Richards and the Flyers, who have added yet another accomplishment to their already impressive track record.
After Kimmo Timonen blocked a tough shot, Braydon Coburn split two defenders with a crafty but extremely effective pass to Richards, who scored on a short two-man scramble 78 seconds into the second period to give the Flyers a lead of 2-0. right off the bat!
Impressed by the accomplishments, coach John Stevens said that in his evaluation and judgment, Braydon Coburn made a great play, one to talk about and remember! He also said that being involved in such games, his first instinct is to “just freeze the puck” because he’s obviously two men down and the team is at a disadvantage; but he had enough mental clarity and ambition to hold his head up, think optimistically and throw Richie a golden pass, and that’s how things turned for the better.
According to Stevens, the event was huge, especially on the road because the fans are attacking the Rangers due to the fact that they are not scoring and, more importantly, because they allow a goal from two men less and obviously with less! hands! – Such a turn of events makes the Rangers more tired and gave the Flyers a huge boost.
For Richards, this was the 17th goal of his career with fewer players, his other two equally notable achievements (two goals from three against five) were scored in 2007 and 2005 in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada. But Richards, who by the way turns 24 on Wednesday, quickly downplayed the murky record. According to a statement made by him, he said that he thought he was quite good (referring to this achievement) and that such an achievement was something that he did not know or was trying to achieve.
As the fans and press said, Richards made something of a bluff with the shot, but within seconds he managed enough to deflect goalkeeper Henrik Lundgvist’s elbow into the net. – This was really an amazing game for the Flyers and for the fans who enjoyed a comeback that you don’t normally see in this type of game under the circumstances.
