PHILADELPHIA – Winnipeg and the Philadelphia Flyers combined for 17 goals in a game that was so unusual that even the victorious Jets were left shaking their heads.
Andrew Ladd scored the game-winner with 1:06 remaining on a one-timer from close range to lift Winnipeg to a wild 9-8 victory over the Flyers on Thursday night.
“It’s the strangest game I’ve been a part of, it was like an NFL game,” Jets coach Claude Noel said. “We can’t make a lot of logic out of what we did there.”
“I thought to myself, ‘Self, you’re a sick man trying to make logic of this,’” Noel added. “I had the rosary out, I had everything going tonight.”
Fifteen players scored in the wide-open game in which both clubs set season highs for goals scored and goals allowed, and the Jets tied a franchise record for goals in a game.
Asked if he learned anything about his team, Noel joked, “You learn you might need a sports psychologist just to manage the brain of the coach.”
Philadelphia’s Danny Briere and James van Riemsdyk were the only multiple goal scorers with two apiece. Kimmo Timonen had four assists and Scott Hartnell added a goal and assist. Claude Giroux and
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