Projo Sports Blog

Scottie Upshall scored with 9.9 seconds left in overtime Thursday night to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins, who got 51 saves from Tim Thomas.

Joni Pitkanen, R.J. Umberger and Mike Richards had the other Flyers’ goals. Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak.

Mark Mowers ended his stretch of 27 games without a goal by scoring a pair for Boston, and defenseman Zdeno Chara had his 10th of the season.

Martin Biron, acquired from Buffalo on Tuesday for a second-round pick in the 2007 draft, made 34 saves in his Flyers’ debut. He made a right pad save on Petr Tenkrat’s clean breakaway bid with just under 15 minutes to play.

Upshall, sent in on a partial breakaway on a pass from Pitkanen, slipped around defenseman Andrew Ference before shifting to his backhand and putting the puck behind Thomas for the game-winner.

The Bruins, outshot 55-37, have allowed more than 50 shots on goal in two of their last three games. Boston dropped its third straight after a four-game winning streak seemingly got it back in the playoff race.

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