Flyers Can't Soar Past Jets in Loss

The Flyers fell to the Jets in a 6-4 loss on Saturday.

Bryan Little scored twice early in the first period to help the Winnipeg Jets beat the Philadelphia Flyers 6-4 on Saturday.

Dustin Byfuglien had a goal and two assists, and Andrew Ladd, Jim Slater and Nik Antropov also scored for Winnipeg. Little, Ladd and Byfuglien had power-play goals, and Slater scored short-handed.

Scott Hartnell had two goals and two assists, and Matt Read also scored twice for Philadelphia. The Flyers hadn't lost in regulation time in nine games, and had won three straight.

The victory was the Jets' third straight on home ice against Eastern Conference opponents after beating the Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals earlier in the week.
 
Little made it 2-0 with goals 2:15 apart.
 
He scored off a rebound on a power play at 4:45, and followed with an even-strength goal at 7:00, blasting a goal through goalie Sergei Bobrovsky's legs.
 
Ladd made it 3-0 midway through the period when he took a feed from Kyle Wellwood and scored on the power play for his sixth of the season.
 
Hartnell scored his first of the game with 6:33 left in the period when he tipped a shot over goalie Ondrej Pavelec's shoulder on a power play.

Slater made it 4-1 with his short-handed goal early in the second.
 
The Flyers then took a pair of minor penalties to give the Jets a 5-on-3 power play for a full 2 minutes. Byfuglien made them pay, slipping a shot past Bobrovsky from a sharp angle to give the Jets a 5-1 lead.
 
Almost immediately, Jets' fans began chanting “We want Ilya! We want Ilya!”, hoping that Flyers coach Peter Laviolette would substitute goalie Ilya Bryzgalov for Bobrovsky.

Bryzgalov gave up four goals on 10 shots in Winnipeg's 9-8 victory over the Flyers on Oct. 28.
 
The Russian goalie also made some comments about Winnipeg last spring when he was with the Phoenix Coyotes, saying publicly he would not move to the Manitoba capital if the franchise moved from the desert.
 
Hartnell scored his second power-play goal of the game with just under 4 minutes left in the second.
 
Read scored twice for the Flyers in the third period.
 

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