Despite one of their best defensive efforts of the season, the Flyers needed overtime to knock off a division rival.
Morning Observations is a new feature, where we break down the previous night's game with an analytical eye.
- In a way, this game was a bit of a tale of two, um ... I can't really call them halves, since one of them was longer than the other. But there was a distinctly different feel to this game in the first two periods compared to the third. The Flyers basically out-Devilsed the Devils through 40, holding the slowest-paced team in hockey to just 12 shots through two periods.