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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Mark Lawrence's wife saw more success coming
for her husband against his favorite target.
Lawrence, who has three goals in six career games against
Philadelphia, scored his first goal this season at 9:16 of the
third period to give the New York Islanders a 2-2 tie with the
Flyers.
|  | | Islanders goalie Kevin Weekes grabs the puck before Philadelphia's Eric Lindros can stuff it in. |
"My wife and I were talking about my success against the
Flyers," said Lawrence of his talk with his wife, Denise. "She told me
that it would be funny if I scored again tonight. As it turned out
she was right. I really don't know what it is, but I've had some
really big goals against them over the years."
Lawrence, who only has 15 goals in 99 career games, tipped the
puck past the stick side of John Vanbiesbrouck from the doorstep
after taking a pass from Jamie Rivers.
"I was just at the right place at the right time," he said.
"But the key tonight was our penalty killing."
The Islanders shut down the NHL's best power-play unit, blanking
the Flyers on seven attempts -- including 1:49 of a two-man
advantage that carried over from the end of the second period into
the third.
Jason Krog also scored for the Islanders, who have lost only
once in five games (3-1-1) and got an excellent effort from Kevin
Weekes, who made 37 saves.
"Weekes played terrific," Islanders coach Butch Goring said.
"Our penalty killers and defense did a heck of a job. Whenever
Philadelphia was able to get a good shot on net, Weekes was equal
to the task."
Eric Lindros and Keith Jones scored for the Flyers, who have
lost only two of their last 22 homes games (14-2-6), but are only
4-6-5 in the second half of the season.
"We've been a lifeless team for a while here," Jones said.
"These are teams on paper we should be beating. We need some
energy and have to go out and play like the Flyers are supposed
to."
An apparent go-ahead goal by Lindros was waved off by referee Paul Devorski, who whistled the Flyers captain for slashing defenseman Zdeno Chara with 5:11 left in regulation.
"It's a tough stretch right now," Lindros said. "We got a
lead in the third period, which is where you want to be and we let
that slip away."
With John LeClair off for interference, Krog put the Islanders
ahead 1-0 with a power-play goal only 59 seconds in. Josh Green
dumped the puck to the crease and Krog tipped it into the net.
Mariusz Czerkawski also had an assist on the play to extend his
scoring streak to a career-high 12 games. He has 19 points in that
span. Green's assist stretched his scoring streak to eight games.
Lindros tied it with a short-handed goal at 4:16 of the second,
ramming home his own rebound after taking a pass from Luke
Richardson deep in Philadelphia's zone.
Jones put Philadelphia ahead 2-1 at 13:24 of the second with his
first goal in 15 games. Jones got the shaft of his stick on a Dan
McGillis' slap shot, from just inside the blue line, and deflected
it past Weekes.
Philadelphia held a 39-26 shots advantage, the 13th time in 14
games that the Flyers have outshot their opponent.
Philadelphia's final power play came at the start of overtime,
but Weekes made a brilliant stop on a shot from the point by Eric
Desjardins.
The Islanders are 0-6-2 in their last eight games at
Philadelphia.
The game marked the first meeting between the teams since Gino
Odjick was traded from the Islanders to the Flyers on Tuesday for
Mikael Andersson.
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