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The Flyers Alumni put on an awesome, high scoring affair on Monday night where Team Holmgren (black) defeated Team Tocchet (orange), 6-5.
From the opening ceremonies, the player introductions, the players jerseys with the throwbacks and everything was so awesome. It was 2-2 after the first period, as Riley Cote opened the scoring for Team Orange. Upshall & Lupul would get the next two off a surge of zone time from Team Black, making it 2-1, Simon Gagne would net Orange’s 2nd goal on a pass from Danny Briere.
The 2nd was back and forth for a good bit, until Upshall potted his 2nd of the game. Around 20-30 seconds later, he got a hat-trick to make it 4-2. Brad Marsh would score to make it 4-3 on a nice pass by Riley Cote behind the net. Bill Meltzer told me Marsh had only scored 23 goals in 1,068 NHL games, and was really trying to get one tonight, and he did just that. Two identical tap-ins from Fedoruk & Eric Lindros would give Team Black a 6-3 advantage late in the 2nd.
Team Orange came out strong with two goals from Simon Gagne and Donald Brashear to make it 6-5. They kept pressing and Robert Esche made some great saves, including a point blank shot from Danny Briere in the high slot. Late in the period (6 mins) Team Orange put in Bill Duffy, Flyers Warriors goaltender in for the rest of the 3rd. Bill is a United States Air Force Veteran and President of the Philadelphia Warriors. He made a few good saves, one on Joffrey Lupul & Scottie Upshall, and was also the 1st star of the game. Danny Briere almost tied it late on a penalty shot, did a similar move to his 2010 goal on Lundqvist to send the Flyers to the playoffs but lost the puck.
It was a great event tonight, lots of good things came out of this game and everyone played amazing. Props to Mike Knuble for battling through that eye injury he took when a puck came up and hit his face, saying that getting cut is “very annoying when you’re 49 years old”.
Also if you were wondering, Scott Hartnell did indeed go down.
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