The Flyers entered Winnipeg on Tuesday night winless against the Jets, but that problem was corrected by the end of the night.
Down 3-2, time was running out for the Flyers.
Jet's goaltender Ondrej Pavalec kept his team in the game the entire time, but the defense did not do enough to help their goalie.
The Flyers were easily getting players open in front of the net, resulting in many scoring oppurtunities.
With 10 seconds left in the third period, the Jets almost escaped with the win, but James Van Riemsdyk charged into the Jet's zone and got a pass to Wayne Simmonds right in front of the net.
Simmonds (22, 19:50) scored to tie the game up at three, and send it in to overtime.
Like in regulation, the Flyers continued to take shots on goal.
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During regulation, the Jet's Dustin Byfuglien (9, 12:31) started the scoring with a power-play goal in the first.
Minutes later, Claude Giroux (23, 15:50) scored to tie the game 1-1.
In the second, Scott Hartnell (28, 1:09) scored off a rebound, from a shot by Kimmo Timonen.
Hartnell gave the Flyers their first lead, but Winnipeg's Andrew Ladd took it back with back-to-back goals (18, 7:52) (19, 8:56) to put the Jets up 3-2.
Maxime Talbot (17, 11:14) scored to tie the game up 3-3.
In the third period, Evander Kane (23, 4:57) scored a power play goal to give the Jets the lead bakc at 4-3, then Simmonds tied it up at the end of the period with his clutch goal.
The Flyers took 55 total shots on goal. Pavelec allowed five goals, but stopped a season high 50 shots on Tuesday night.
In the Flyer's goal, Ilya Bryzgalov continues to show his struggles. The Jets only had 26 shots on goal; Bryzgalov only saved 22.
The Flyers have held on to the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference for a good part of the season, but there incosistency as of late dropped them down to the fifth seed. They are tied for fifth with the Pittsburgh Penguins (who have been playing well the past few weeks) with 73 points.
Th New Jersey Devils (also playing well lately) are now in fourth with 74 points.
The next stop on the Flyer's road trip is in Edmonton, where they will play the Oilers on Thursday night.
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Extra Notes
Bryzgalov took a puck off his glove hand during practice Tuesday morning. The team trainers had X-rays done on his hand, and they came back negative. GM Paul Holmgren said afterwards that Bryzgalov was fine.
Zac Rinaldo returned to the lineup against Winnipeg, after serving his two-game suspension for his illegal hit on the Detroit Red Wing's Jonathan Ericsson, back on February 12.
Defenseman Pavel Kubina, who was acquired in a trade from Tampa Bay, made his debut as a Flyer on Tuesday night.
Box Score
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