Game 79 and Hell Week Game 5: Flyers at Islanders

Philadelphia Flyers: 39-28-11, 89 points
New York Islanders: 34-37-7, 75 points

Antero Niittymaki v. Wade Dubielewicz

A night after being lucky to come away with a point against the Devils, the Flyers travel up the turnpike to take on the Islanders. Boston won earlier today, so the Flyers need to win to keep the pressure on everyone else. Boston will have a game in hand, so the Flyers can't give away any more points. I said they were lucky to get a point against New Jersey, but once they got to OT and the shootout, it's too bad they couldn't put the game away. They lost ground on New Jersey, and it's going to be tough to make it up.

Antero Niittymaki will get the start tonight. I don't know why Stevens didn't flip Biron and Niitty, but what are you going to do?

This will probably be pretty short because I honestly don't know what else to say. The Flyers have just dominated the Islanders all season, and they've gotten better and better against them as the season has gone on. The Islanders have gotten killed by the Flyers' PP, and if they continue to take bad penalties, they're going to keep losing games. They're banged up and very inexperienced.

If I have the time tonight, I'm going to try and talk about the Flyers' record in back to back games.

Bill Meltzer.