It's been mentioned in so many other articles today, but this one fan summed up Philadelphia's feelings perfectly.
"Come on Flyers, you're our only hope!"
After a 2-0 start on the road with wins over the defending champion Bruins and the New Jersey Devils, the Flyers have been able to help ease the pain of the recent shortcomings of the Phillies and the Eagles.
What else could the Flyers do? Give the fans a show in the home opener and display what this year's newly rebuilt Flyers are capable of.
With a chance to beat the Western Conference Champion Vancouver Canucks, they did not disappoint.
In the first period, Matt Read dumped the puck into Vancouver's zone. The puck to a lucky bounce off the boards right to Claude Giroux who slipped it past Roberto Luongo to put the Flyers up 1-0 (7:41).
The Flyers took a 2-0 lead in the first when Chris Pronger ripped a slapshot right by Luongo (12:12). Wayne Simmonds set up a screen in front of the net to blind Luongo, and set up the goal.
Still in the first, Mikael Samuelsson scored (16:35) to put the Canucks on the scoreboard to make it a 2-1 game.
But with 2:12 left in the first, James Van Riemsdyk answered back with a goal (17:48) to give the Flyers another two goal lead.
The first period ended with a 3-1 Flyers lead. All but JVR's goal came on power plays.
Henrik Sedin scored in the second for Vancouver (6:41) to make it a 3-2 Flyers, but Jakub Voracek answered back with a goal less than two minutes later (8:32) to put the Flyers back up by two for the third time in the game.
Christopher Higgins scored (15:31) to cut the Canucks lead back down to one before the end of the second period.
Unlike in the first, the second period saw no power play goals. The third period, however, did.
Daniel Sedin tied up the game 4-4 (3:39) on a power play goal, but the Flyers responded to the Canucks all night and that didn't change.
Andrej Meszaros scored to make it 5-4 (4:40) nearly one minute after Sedin tied it up.
Meszaros goal ended up being the game winner, because Ilya Bryzgalov was able to hold off Vancouver to give the Flyers a 5-4 win.
Bryzgalov saw 40 shots from the Canucks, and he saved 36 of them. The opposing goaltender, Roberto Luongo saw 27 shots from Philadelphia, but could only make 22 saves.
The Flyers have gotten off to an incredible start. They are now 3-0-0 so far this season.
Their next game is this Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center against the Kings. Mike Richards returns to the Wells Fargo Center for the first time since being traded to Los Angeles.
Flyers.NHL.com
http://flyers.nhl.com/club/boxscore.htm?id=2011020035
ESPN.com
http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=400046946
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