Saturday afternoon's game was one that came with good news and bad news for the orange and black.
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The bad news: Jaromir Jagr and Danny Briere are both injured.
Jagr re-aggravated his left groin and left in the first period.
Briere played the entire game, but GM Paul Holmgren announced that Briere had a concussion after being evaluated (more on both injuries later).
Scoring started in the second period.
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Read continues his great season with his 15th goal of the year. He is leading all rookies in scoring.
Later in the second with the Flyers on the power play, Kimmo Timmonen took a shot from the point. The shot was redirected past the Devil's Martin Brodeur, by Scott Hartnell.
Hartnell recorded his team leading 21st goal of the year to put the Flyers up 2-0 (13:04). But he did not stop there.
After a Devils goal by Alexei Ponikarovsky (8, 13:32) in the second, Hartnell scored another power play goal in the third.
Claude Giroux, who has been in a bad slump, recorded an assist by setting up Hartnell with a one-timer that put the Flyers up 3-1 (8:07).
Hartnell finished the night with a two goal game and 22 goals on the year.
Wayne Simmonds (13) scored an unassisted goal late in the third (17:38), as the Flyers went on to top the Devils by a final of 4-1.
Bryzgalov has been excellent over his past two starts, only allowing two goals in both games.
On Saturday, Bryzgalov saved 30 of 31 shots.
Future Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur saw only 19 shots, but was only able to stop 16 of them.
The win puts the Flyers back in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 60 points. The Ottawa Senators have just as many points, but lost to Anaheim 2-1, dropping them down to fifth.
The Flyers have now won one of two straight games this weekend.
The second game will be Sunday afternoon, back at the Wells Fargo Center, against the Boston Bruins.
Box Score
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