Posted: Friday, October 31, 2008, 1:45 PM | 0 comments |
 

Carter sizzling; Flyers have Phillies fever
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   Jeff Carter is emerging as one of the NHL's most prolific scorers.

  Carter scored two goals _ including the game winner with 22.9 seconds left in OT _ to lift the Flyers to a 3-2 win over the pesky New York Islanders last night. Carter now is second in the league with eight goals and seems like a cinch to surpass the 29 goals he scored last year.

   Thanks to Carter's late goal, a less-than-inpsiring Flyers performance was masked. The Flyers were outplayed, outhustled and outshot in the last half of the game _ by an Islandres team that took a league-worst four points into the night.

   Marty Biron (34 saves) and Carter were the reasons for the win, but the Flyers will need a much better effort to beat Edmonton Sunday.

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   The Flyers think the Phils' success may have a carryover effect on the city's three other sports teams. (Just like in 1980.)

  

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Sam Carchidi is in his fourth year as the Flyers' beat reporter. He became an Inquirer staff writer in 1984 and covered mostly South Jersey high school sports and the Phillies before taking the Flyers beat.

Carchidi has written three books _ the nationally acclaimed Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story, which he co-authored with Scott Brown; Bill Campbell: The Voice of Philadelphia Sports; and Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story, which was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. He also contributed to a 1993 Inquirer book on the Phillies.

A lifelong South Jersey resident, Carchidi lives in Wenonah with his wife, JoAnn, and their two children, Sara and Sammy.

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