Giroux-Voracek-Read line explodes for 10 points as Flyers bomb Isles

Philadelphia celebrated Presidents Day in style on Monday as the trio of Claude Giroux, Jakub Voracek and Matt Read paced the Flyers to a 7-0 win over the New York Islanders.

The line was stellar throughout the afternoon and gave hope that the Flyers — who had only been averaging 2.38 goals per game this year, 24th in the league — found a dynamic top line to boost their offense.

Voracek finished with four assists, Read with 1G-2A and Giroux with 2G-1A, the latter of great significance as it was Giroux’s first three-point performance of the year.

Giroux opened the scoring just 26 seconds into the game, with the assists going to — who else? — Read and Voracek. The goal also stood as the deciding tally, Giroux’s first game-winning goal of the season.

As for other key Flyers performances on the day:

– Daniel Briere finished with 2G-1A-3PTS, nearly doubling his output for the season. Coming into today, Briere had just five points through 12 games.

– Ilya Bryzgalov stopped all 19 shots for his first shutout of the season.

– Brayden Schenn finished with 1G-1A-2PTS, his second multi-point game of the season.

– Zac Rinaldo‘s third-period tally was his first point and goal of the year.

Not much to say from the Islanders’ side of things, other than they’ll want to throw this performance in the garbage and forget about it entirely.

The John Tavares-Matt Moulson-Brad Boyes line finished a combined minus-9 while Evgeni Nabokov was on the hook for all seven goals, on just 25 shots.

Oh, and in case you’re curious, it was 16 years ago that Philly’s famed “Legion of Doom” line of Eric Lindros, John LeClair and Mikael Renberg combined for 16 points in a 8-5 win over the Ottawa Senators.