Philadelphia Flyers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Friday, November 25, 2005 · TD Banknorth Garden
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Boston Bruins 5–3 on Friday, November 25, 2005 at TD Banknorth Garden. The Bruins outshot the Flyers 28–27.
Peter Forsberg scored twice. Simon Gagne, Eric Desjardins, Eric Nickulas, Joe Thornton, Jiri Slegr and Michal Handzus also scored.
Antero Niittymaki made 25 saves on 28 shots for the win; Andrew Raycroft stopped 22 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Simon Gagne (21)Peter Forsberg (31), Mike Knuble (9)1–016:11 PHI
2nd period
Eric Desjardins (2)Unassisted2–004:15 PHI · 
Eric Nickulas (1)Sergei Samsonov (12), David Tanabe (5)2–105:42 BOS
Joe Thornton (9)Milan Jurcina (1)2–208:42 BOS
Jiri Slegr (5)Eric Nickulas (2), Sergei Samsonov (13)2–309:51 BOS
Peter Forsberg (7)Simon Gagne (12)3–311:04 PHI · - Peter Forsberg (8)Simon Gagne (13), Sami Kapanen (1)4–313:06 PHI
3rd period
Michal Handzus (6)Unassisted5–319:36 PHI ·
Team stats
PHIBOS
2728
57%43%
2/60/4
812
1313
177
52
24
Penalties
- 5:36 into the first period
Mike Knuble · hooking2 min - 13:28 into the first periodMike Knuble · hooking2 min
- 17:40 into the first period
Brad Boyes · hooking2 min - 3:14 into the second periodEric Healey · boarding2 min
- 10:42 into the second periodTravis Green · holding2 min
- 1:11 into the third periodChris Therien · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 2:23 into the third periodJiri Slegr · tripping2 min
- 7:45 into the third periodAndrew Alberts · high sticking2 min
- 10:31 into the third periodMike Rathje · hooking2 min
- 14:57 into the third periodMilan Jurcina · boarding2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 12Simon GagneL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 6 | 21:44 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 13:26 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 3 | 19:38 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 16:44 |
| 26Michal HandzusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 17:51 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 26:19 |
| 11Jon SimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 10:15 |
| 17Jeff CarterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:16 |
| 18Mike RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:18 |
| 19Branko RadivojevicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12:51 |
| 20R.J. UmbergerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:30 |
| 27Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:11 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:59 |
| 2Derian HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 25:08 |
| 3Mike RathjeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:26 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:03 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:11 |
| 44Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:50 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Antero NiittymakiG | W | 28 | 3 | .893 |
| 42Robert EscheG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 15:52 |
| 47Eric NickulasR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 14:15 |
| 19Joe ThorntonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 22:24 |
| 55David TanabeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:02 |
| 68Milan JurcinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:05 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:15 |
| 10Alexei ZhamnovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:30 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 12Tom FitzgeraldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:15 |
| 17Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:49 |
| 21Brad IsbisterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:09 |
| 26Brad BoyesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:42 |
| 37Patrice BergeronC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 19:56 |
| 39Travis GreenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:13 |
| 40Eric HealeyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:16 |
| 25Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:49 |
| 41Andrew AlbertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:54 |
| 44Nick BoyntonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 23:28 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Andrew RaycroftG | L | 26 | 4 | .846 |
| 33Hannu ToivonenG | 0 | 0 | – |