Flyers open up pre-season with 4-0 win vs Leafs

September 21, 2011

It's only pre-season, but it was nice to see the Flyers open up with a shutout win in Toronto. Especially when many of the young players played well.

Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky saved all 27 shots that came his way to get his first ever NHL shutout, and he did it on his 23rd birthday (pretty good present).

Center Zac Rinaldo, right winger Wayne Simmonds (who came from Los Angeles in the Mike Richards trade), and right winger Mike Testwuide scored the Flyers first three goals respectively.

Then in the third period, the eighth overall pick in this year's NHL Draft, center Sean Couturier scored his first NHL goal and the Flyers fourth and final goal of the game.

Defenseman Matt Carle had two assists on the night.

Jakub Voracek (came from Cloumbus in the Carter trade) played well last night as well. Voracek earned an assist in the second period when he set up a pass to Rinaldo, who went on to score the Flyer's first goal of the night.

The Flyers will be at home tonight to play the Maple Leafs again, this time at the Wells Fargo Center.

Recaps

Flyers.com
http://flyers.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=64095&navid=DL|PHI|home

ESPN.com
http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/recap?gameId=400057682