Danny Briere buried a nifty shootout goal in the second round and Brian Boucher stopped all three Capitals shootout attempts as the Flyers won 5-4 tonight in Washington.
In a game featuring 16 penalties (many questionable to say the least), the Caps used their powerplays to their advantage to get back into the game, while the Flyers could not convert on theirs to put the game away.
Briere's high sticking while on the powerplay allowed the Caps' Eric Fehr to launch a rocket past Boucher with 39 seconds left. From there it seemed inevitable that the Caps would seize the moment and continue their dominance at home. But Boucher had other ideas and was steady in the shootout turning away consecutive shots to his glove by Nicklas Backstrom and Alex Ovechkin while getting some help from the iron on Alex Semin's deke.
It was certainly not the Flyers best win, but they will take the two points after a two game skid. They will face the Montreal Canadiens on Monday at the Wells Fargo Center hoping to avenge a shutout loss last Tuesday night up at the Bell Centre.
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