Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres

For the first time all season, the Flyers have lost four games in a row. Yet again, the game started off looking promising with the Flyers scoring the first goal of the game and ending the first period with a score of 1-0. Even after a goal by the Sabres, the Flyers scored two within a few seconds of each other. The game was tied in the third, however, which brought the game into overtime. There was too many overturned passes, defensive mistakes, and missed shots. Too many times to count, the Flyers could have raised the score, and maybe even won, but the shot hit the post, went wide, or deflected out of play. The "talk of the town" before the game tonight was that Danny Briere playing at his best due to the fact that the Sabres were his old team and that he just recovered from "a lower body injury". While he did score a goal and received an assist, it most definitely was not one of his best games. Kris Versteeg got a shorthanded goal tonight and than backed that with tripping and missing passes. Once again, the game could have been much worse had it not been for Sergei Bobrovsky. In my mind, there was not really any stand-out stars during this game. Especially not from who we usually hear from; players such as Jeff Carter and Mike Richards. Hopefully Chris Pronger gets well soon because defense needs some serious help. At the beginning of this game, the Flyers were in second place for the conference. In order to get back to the first seed, the Pittsburgh Penguins needed to lose (they won) and the Flyers needed to win (they lost). The game tomorrow will decide if the Flyers will drop down to a dreaded fourth place, or keep their second place (in order to get back to first, they would have needed to win this game and the next game). Everyone hoped that because the Flyers finally lost their first seed spot, that the sense would get knocked back into them. Obviously not. One can only hope that they get the sense knocked back into them before the playoffs start on Wednesday.
*note: if Flyers lose tomorrow and drop down to fourth, they will have to play the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Flyers have lost three out of four meetings with them this season.