Philadelphia -- The Flyers got a 5-4 win at home, it was an exciting game and the sellout crowd had to sit on the edge of their seats at times.

Roberto Luongo was sharp early and he did a good job of fighting off the Flyers who were aggressive in the crease.

The Flyers got on the board first when Claude Giroux (3-pt game) took the puck off the boards and he went down the gut and lifted the puck high over Luongo’s glove hand to make it a 1-0 game at 7:14 of the first period.

When the Flyers got their second power play of the game Wayne Simmonds, played hard in the crease and Luongo stopped a nice shot.

Flyers captain Chris Pronger blasted in the second goal of the game at 12:12 of the first period. Another power play goal. Luongo was beat low glove side. Simmonds was in the crease.

On Vancouver’s first power play defenseman Alex Edler bounced in a shot that hit both posts and went on after Mikael Samuelsson backhanded in a rebound to make it a 2-1 game at 12:12 of the first period.

The Flyers made it 3-1 when Luongo made a bad clear, and eventually gave a fat rebound to JVR who banged home an easy goal.

“It was a tough one, we battled back and they scored one right away,” said Luongo. “It was a tough break for us but one went in there…We kept going at it and we had a chance.”

Vancouver made it 3-2 when Henrik Sedin knocked in a loose puck on Ilya Bryzgalov’s (stopped 36 shots) right side. The Flyers defense was overwhelmed on the play at 6:41 of the second period.

The Flyers got their 4th goal when Sean Couturier skated around the back of the net and threaded the needle to Jakub Voracek who wristed the puck in at 8:32.

Alex Burrows got behind the Flyers net and Chris Higgins moved up on the left hash mark and lifted in a quick wrist shot to make it a 4-3 game at 15:31.

Luongo stopped Jaromir Jagr who had an open net if he could lift it over the goaltender’s glove but he failed and Luongo (stopped just 22 shots) corralled the puck.

Vancouver got a power play off a JVR unsportsmanlike which made no sense at the time and Daniel Sedin just ripped off a tic-tac-toe goal up high over Bryzgalov to tie the game 4-4 at 2:39 of the final period.

“It was a little bit of misunderstanding,” said JVR. “I talked to him afterwards and let him know I think he heard what I said the wrong way. I think he thought it was directed at him…It was a stupid penalty…I paid for it. They scored a goal which is bad. I’m glad we were able to eek out a win because I would have felt really bad.

“I don’t want to get into a he said, she said about that kind of stuff. I thought it was one way and he thought it was another way. That’s how it is. That’s hockey. You have to move on.”

Andrej Meszaros gave his team the lead again with a nice high wrister that went over Luongo’s glove to give his team the 5-4 lead at 4:40.

On the Canucks power play late in the third, Kimmo Timonen turned a puck aside that may have saved the game.

Observations - Vancouver - Cody Hodgson (11 NHL games replacing an injured Ryan Kesler) looked strong on the puck and controlled it well with players on him.

The Canucks feel like they are always in the game even when they have given up four goals, that's saying something.

The Flyers PK saved the game, holding Vancouver to 2-7 with that talent is an accomplishment.

Jagr has to pin the puck on the side boards more than he did because when he tried to take the puck in himself, down the middle, he was easily stripped.

photo by del Tufo.