EDMONTON - This time, there were no late-game heroics.
There are only so many times you can go to that well. And the Flyers already did that in Winnipeg on Tuesday night, when they salvaged an overtime win after Wayne Simmonds' tally tied the game with 9.7 seconds left in the third period.
Last night, the Flyers pounded 15 shots toward the Edmonton net in the third period while allowing just five chances at the other end of the ice.
The effort was too little, too late.
For the second visit in a row, the Flyers were shutout in the Great White North - as Devan Dubnyk and the 29th place Edmonton Oilers dealt them a 2-0 loss at a Rexall Place.
Simon Gagne was the last Flyer to score a goal in Edmonton, way back on October 6, 2007. Overall, the Flyers have not won in Edmonton since March 19, 2001.
More importantly, the Flyers have not been able to string together consecutive wins since Jan. 10-12 - a span of 18 games, or 22 percent of the entire 82-game schedule.
This one, though, wasn't on Ilya Bryzgalov's chin - even though Jordan Eberle snuck a weak, dribbling shot through his five-hole in the second period. In fact, Bryzgalov stopped Shawn Horcoff's penalty shot with under 3 minutes to play to give the Flyers a fighting chance.
As the Flyers have learned, being shutout for the fourth time this season, you've got to score to win. Last night, the Flyers blasted 35 shots at Dubnyk, but didn't garner enough quality scoring chances.
Few lines were bigger culprits that the Flyers' second unit of Danny Briere, Matt Read and Jaromir Jagr. Briere and Read were two of just three Philadelphia forwards who failed to register a shot
"I think our line needs to get going to give [Claude] Giroux's line some support," Briere said before the game. "When you're losing or not playing well, you need a lot of guys to chip in. Lately it seems like, myself included, that we've been struggling a little bit more than we have in the first half of the season."
To add insult to injury, the Flyers failed to clean up their act on the penalty kill, though this one wasn't their fault. Taylor Hall was the recipient of an easy, slam-dunk bounce off the backboards that came from Ryan Whitney at the point that gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead in the second period. It was the Flyers' nine power-play goal against - and their fourth on this road trip - over their last seven games.
With the loss, the Flyers - the NHL's third best road team at fell to 1-1 on their season-long 10-day road trip.
