Ben Rothenberg

Delayed gratification: Flyers win Game 2 in OT, 4-3

That did not have to be that difficult.

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Tale of the Tape

Because what is sports without scars that last forever?

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Flyers win playoff series for first time in eight years

The Flyers are moving on to the second round.

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Flyers lose normal hockey game

It was better but also worse. Mostly worse.

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The Flyers were terrible for once and I feel much better

Being that good was far too much to handle.

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Every Rosehill has its goalhorn: Flyers 4, Oilers 2

The Flyers are a still hockey team who wins hockey games! Who knew?!?!

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The Two O'Clock Number

∞  -- Number of times you should watch this, the greatest .gif in the history of pixels. Click to animate. Happy anniversary, everybody.

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1* -- The number of new banners that will be hanging from the Wells Fargo Center rafters because of the successes of the 2010-11 season. (* because I know they do that consolidated banner thing for Atlantic Division titles now) The Flyers' 2010-11 season was... ...a failure.746...not a failure.

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2 -- Hat tricks Rick Tocchet earned in three games against the Winnipeg Jets during the 1989-90 season. In the second game, Tocchet added a fourth goal (an empty netter) for good measure.

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19 -- Number of years since the Boston Bruins last made the Conference Finals, dating back to their being swept in the 1992 Wales Conference Finals at the hands of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The only other Eastern Conference team that hasn't been to a conference final during this span is

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5 -- The number of games it took for the Flyers to win each of the two series following a Game 7 win since the lockout. 2010: ECSF d. Bruins in 7; ECF d. Canadiens in 5. 2008: ECQF d. Capitals in 7; ECSF d. Canadiens in 5. Call it.

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5 -- Goals by Dan Carcillo in his nine career Eastern Conference Quarterfinal home games with the Philadelphia Flyers. Carcillo has never scored a goal in his twenty career playoff games that were not first round games in Philadelphia. How many more goals will Dan Carcillo score in the 2011

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1 - Number of games remaining in the 2011 Eastern Conference Quarterfinal between the No. 2 Philadelphia Flyers and the No. 7 Buffalo Sabres. Deep breath. Game 7.642

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3 -- The number of Flyer goaltenders (Sergei Bobrovsky, Brian Boucher, Michael Leighton) who have each given up three goals in the first period of a game in the ECQF, an NHL record that I don't see being broken any time soon. Remarkably, the Flyers are 2-1 in these games,

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15 -- Approximate difference (in inches) between the heights of Sabres players Tyler Myers (6'8'') and Nathan Gerbe (generously listed as 5'5''). That's 33cm for those of you who don't speak American. True or False: If he returns tonight, Chris Pronger will unhinge his jaw and swallow Nathan Gerbe whole.

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+16 -- Braydon Coburn's Corsi score in the Flyers' Game 4 loss to the Buffalo Sabres. No other Flyer skater was in double digits. Corsi is a plus/minus-style statistic that measures how many shot attempts (goals, saves, missed shots, and blocked shots) a player was on the ice for.

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6 -- Consecutive series the Flyers have won when holding a 2-1 lead. The Flyers successfully closed out 2-1 leads in the 2010 ECF (d. Montreal in five), the 2010 ECQF (d. New Jersey in five), the 2008 ECSF (d. Montreal in five), the 2008 ECQF (d. Washington in seven)

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The (Twenty-Five 'Til) Two O'Clock Number

1 -- Michael Leighton and Sergei Bobrovsky's combined total of career complete playoff games served as a back-up goalie on the bench. The number was 0 before Michael Leighton had his first last night. Brian Boucher seems fairly safe in his hold on the starting spot, but Peter Laviolette's unusual

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2 -- The number of total goals the Flyers scored in the 2002 ECQF against the Ottawa Senators, the last time the Flyers were a No. 2 seed (and the last time they were upset). After both teams were shut out in regulation, the Flyers scored in overtime of Game

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330 -- As of the publishing time of this post (2 p.m., if you didn't know), the number of minutes until the Philadelphia Flyers 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs campaign begins. It's also roughly my heart's BPM for the next several months. It starts tonight.  Hopefully it doesn't end for

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12 -- Consecutive home wins for the Flyers in series in which they have home ice advantage. The Flyers last loss in Philadelphia in a series in which they held home ice advantage came in Game 1 of the 2003 ECQF against the Toronto Maple Leafs, a series the Flyers

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The 12:45 Number

36.7% -- Odds that the Flyers face the Buffalo Sabres in the first round of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs. There is a 100% chance, however, that the Flyers face the Sabres tonight. The Buffalo Sabres would be a ________ first round opponent. Good390Bad130

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4 -- Difference in the number of goalies dressed by the Flyers in the 2009-10 season (7) and the 2010-11 season (3). Sergei Bobrovsky, Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton have shouldered the load on their own this season, while '09-'10 required the talents of Boucher, Leighton, Ray Emery, Johan Backlund,

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2 -- Since 1980, the total number of playoff series the Flyers have won in the nine postseasons following one which saw them reach the conference finals or better. After the jump, a graph! Yes, I know what numbers are! Click on the above to make it big and legible.

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