Philly Sports Jabronis
Report From Philadelphia Flyers
* The loss marks the fourth time the Flyers have been shut out this season, and first time on home ice.
* Per the Elias Sports Bureau, Cam Talbot became the first goalie since the 2007-08 season to shut out the Flyers twice in the span of 10 days or less – Steve Valiquette did so for the Rangers on Jan. 31 and Feb. 9, 2008… Both games were in Philadelphia and they represented two of the four shutouts Valiquette had in his career.
* Claude Giroux was 10-for-21 (48 pct) on faceoffs, snapping a five-game streak of going 50 percent or better – Sean Couturier went 10-for-13 (77 pct).
* 13 different Flyers recorded a shot on goal in today’s game, including nine players with two or more.
* Brayden Schenn and Michael Raffl each recorded five hits.
GAME RECAP
PHILADELPHIA — Cam Talbot stopped all 26 shots he faced and forward Martin St. Louis had his 1,000th career point as the New York Rangers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3-0 on Friday at Wells Fargo Center.
Talbot recorded his second shutout in two starts this season against the Flyers. He stopped 31 shots in a 2-0 Rangers win on Nov. 19. St. Louis had a goal and an assist.
Talbot extended his personal shutout streak against the Flyers to 156:27, and he hasn’t allowed a goal in his past three games against Philadelphia, including a relief stint in the third period of Game 6 of the teams’ 2014 Eastern Conference First Round series.
Rangers defenseman Dan Boyle and forward Rick Nash had goals for the Rangers.
Philadelphia goaltender Steve Mason made 21 saves as the Flyers dropped to 1-6-1 in their past eight games. It’s the second time in three games the Flyers have been shut out; they lost 1-0 in a shootout to the New York Islanders on Nov. 24.
The Flyers went 0-for-6 on the power play and were outshot by the Rangers’ penalty-killing unit 7-5.
That includes Nash’s shorthanded goal at 5:30 of the third. The Flyers had a four-minute power play after forward Chris Kreider was called for a high-sticking double-minor on Sean Couturier. Boyle broke up a Philadelphia cycle in the left corner and the only Flyer not caught deep was defenseman Mark Streit. Ryan McDonagh led a 3-on-1 rush that Nash finished with a shot from the right dot off a Derek Stepan cross-ice pass.
The goal was Nash’s 16th, his fourth in as many games.
New York made it 2-0 at 4:14 of the second period on St. Louis’ ninth goal of the season. Flyers forward Scott Laughtonturned the puck over inside the Philadelphia blue line and Kreider threw it to Stepan on the right side. Mason stopped his sharp-angle shot but left a rebound in front that St. Louis batted in.
The goal gave St. Louis 1,000 career points. He entered with 998 and got an assist on Boyle’s first-period goal.
In 16 seasons with the Calgary Flames, Tampa Bay Lightning and Rangers, St. Louis has 379 goals and 621 assists in 1,082 games. St. Louis, 39, is the second player to reach 1,000 points this season; the Chicago Blackhawks’ Marian Hossa had his 1,000th point on Oct. 30 against the Ottawa Senators.
St. Louis is the sixth undrafted player to reach 1,000 points, joining Wayne Gretzky (2,857), Adam Oates (1,420), Peter Stastny (1,239), Dino Ciccarelli (1,200) and Joe Mullen (1,063), according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
The Rangers scored the only goal of the first period on Boyle’s third of the season, at 6:10. Skating on the game’s first power play, Stepan worked the puck on the point to Boyle, who one-timed a shot that Mason never saw because of a Nash screen.
It marked the sixth straight game the Flyers, who entered play Friday with the No. 30 penalty kill in the NHL, have allowed a power-play goal.
