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Ottawa 3 1 2--6
Philadelphia 0 0 1--1
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Dackell 2 (Yashin, Mceachern), 4:38.
2, Ottawa, Yashin 2 (power play) (Mceachern, Hossa), 7:17. 3, Ottawa, Bonk
2 (Hossa), 18:31. Penalties: Desjardins, Phi (hooking), 6:24; Phillips,
Ott (hooking), 11:22; Yashin, Ott (elbowing), 20:00.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, Ottawa, Alfredsson 1 (York, Kravchuk),
7:29. Penalties: Mcgillis, Phi (tripping), 5:18; Forbes, Ott (fighting
major), 5:18; Richardson, Phi (fighting major), 5:18; Persson, Ott (cross
checking), 10:49.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 5, Ottawa, Hossa 2 (Bonk, Arvedson), 3:44. 6,
Philadelphia, Primeau 3 (power play) (Desjardins, Langkow), 17:30. 7,
Ottawa, Bonk 3 (Hossa, Arvedson), 19:37. Penalties: Fisher, Ott (fighting
major), 5:58; Langkow, Phi (fighting major), 5:58; Dackell, Ott
(slashing), 17:21.
Shots on goal:
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Ottawa 13 8 9--30
Philadelphia 8 5 9--22
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Power-play Conversions: Ott - 1 of 2, Phi - 1 of 4. Goalies: Ottawa,
Hurme (22 shots, 21 saves; record: 1-0-0). Philadelphia, Boucher (22, 17;
record: 1-3-1), R Cechmanek (3:44 of 3rd period, 8, 7). A:19,238.
Referees: Faucette, Pollock. Linesmen: Amell, Sericolo.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
Ottawa Philadelphia
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
Alfredsson 1 0 +1 4 Delmore 0 0 -2 1
Arvedson 0 2 +3 1 Desjardins 0 1 -1 2
Bonk 2 1 +4 2 Gagne 0 0 even 3
Dackell 1 0 +1 1 Greig 0 0 -2 0
Fisher 0 0 even 0 Hubacek 0 0 even 1
Forbes 0 0 even 2 Jones 0 0 -3 2
Havlat 0 0 even 1 K Manderville 0 0 -1 1
Hossa 1 3 +3 2 Langkow 0 1 -2 0
Kravchuk 0 1 +2 0 Mcallister 0 0 -1 0
Mceachern 0 2 +1 1 Mcgillis 0 0 -3 2
Persson 0 0 +1 1 P White 0 0 even 0
Phillips 0 0 +2 0 Primeau 1 0 -2 4
Redden 0 0 +1 1 Ranheim 0 0 -1 1
Salo 0 0 +1 2 Richardson 0 0 -1 0
V Prospal 0 0 +1 3 Stevens 0 0 -1 3
Yashin 1 1 +1 4 Sykora 0 0 -3 1
York 0 1 +3 1 Tocchet 0 0 -1 0
Zamuner 0 0 even 4 Williams 0 0 -1 1
Rachunek Healthy Therien Back Injury
Roy Healthy Recchi Post Concussion
Hnidy Healthy Leclair Back Injury
Ouellet Healthy
Odjick Healthy
Hull Shoulder
Game Story
PHILADELPHIA (Ticker) -- Rookie Jani Hurme stopped 21 shots and
came within 2 1/2 minutes of his first NHL shutout as the Ottawa
Senators continued their dominance over the Philadelphia Flyers
with a 6-1 rout.
Hurme spent the last three seasons with four teams in the
International Hockey League. The 25-year-old won his only NHL
start in 1999-00, when he ended the season with a 5-2 triumph
over Tampa Bay.
A native of Finland, Hurme won the job as backup to Patrick
Lalime during the preseason. He got the start tonight after
Lalime suffered a sprained left MCL during Saturday's 4-0
blanking of Toronto.
Andreas Dackell, Alexei Yashin and Radek Bonk provided Hurme
with a three-goal lead in the first period as the Senators
outshot the Flyers, 13-8. After missing all of last season
during a contentious holdout, Yashin has a point in each of
Ottawa's first five games.
Ottawa is unbeaten in the last seven meetings with Philadelphia
(5-0-2), including a 2-0-2 mark last season. The Senators are
4-0-1 in their last five trips to the First Union Center.
"(The Flyers) are a good team," Bonk said. "It's easy to get up
for the good teams than it is about those at the bottom of the
standings. We have to continue to play hard against them and
the breaks will come our way."
Daniel Alfredsson and Marian Hossa also tallied for Ottawa
(4-0-1-0), which has matched last season's start.
For the second time this season, Philadelphia goaltender Brian
Boucher was pulled, this time after allowing five goals on 22
shots. He was yanked from a 5-1 home loss to Boston on October
7.
Boucher led the NHL last season with a 1.91 goals-against
average in 39 games.
Playing without injured stars John LeClair and Mark Recchi, the
Flyers suffered their worst home loss since a 5-0 defeat to
Ottawa on March 4, 1999.
Philadelphia's 1-4-1 start prompted the players to hold a
20-minute closed-door meeting. The Flyers have not won since
opening the season with a 6-3 home triumph over Vancouver.
"We are at a situation now where we are starting to get
embarrassed," Philadelphia right wing Rick Tocchet said. "We
feel we as a team are not competing. We keep saying there is a
lot of hockey left, but at some point, you have to feel like you
have to panic a bit."
"We are not committed to ourselves and each other and to our
game plan isn't there," added Flyers center Keith Primeau.
"Every guy has to go home and look in the mirror and decide
whether he is coming ready to play every night. You won't find
many guys in the room right now who are able to do that."
That frustration showed early as Ottawa jumped out to a 2-0 lead
as Dackell and Yashin converted rebounds and easily slid the
puck past Boucher. Bonk capped the burst when he came out from
behind the net and flipped a wrist shot into the top right
corner with 1:29 remaining in the opening period.
The cushion increased in the second when Alfredsson scored his
100th NHL goal, picking up the rebound of Jason York's shot at
7:29.
Philadelphia spoiled Hurme's shutout on the power play.
Defenseman Eric Desjardins' shot from the right point was
stopped by Hurme, but Primeau muscled his way to the rebound and
stuffed it into the low left corner for his third goal.
But Bonk put the exclamation mark on the victory by one-timing a
feed from Hossa past rookie goaltender Roman Cechmanek with 23
seconds left.
Cechmanek came in at 3:44 of the third period and made seven
saves in his NHL debut.