The Daily Numbers - June 7

The Daily Numbers: 3-2 deficit for the Flyers now in their Stanley Cup Finals series against the Blackhawks. No more room for error. They must win 2 games or make tee times.
7 goals surrendered by the Flyers, 3 each by Michael Leighton and Brian Boucher, and an empty netter for good measure. That won’t get it done.
1,253 homes included in development plan for the former Franklin Mint site, which will go before Middletown planners tonight.
798,000 square feet of commercial space, 235,000 square feet of office space, and 225 room hotel also part of what is being billed as a ‘walkable community’ by the developers.
20 cent a gallon decline in price of gas nationally since it hit a high of $2.93 a gallon on May 20.
2.79 a gallon, average price for gas in the Philly region. That’s up from 2.59 a gallon last year.
2 American arrested in New Jersey as they prepared to leave the country to train at a terror camp, according to the feds.
2 trials set to start today in Philadelphia, where three people are charged in the murders of 2 city police officers.
3 people found shot to death in a condo complex in Hamilton Township, N.J.
7 people killed when tornadoes raked across a section of Ohio Sunday afternoon.
83, age of woman accosted and robbed as she walked across a church parking lot in Delaware. The suspect is 28. Nice.
7 North Jersey high school students who face criminal charges over a school prank that went wrong. They were putting live animals, which they had stolen from a farm, in the school’s ceilings.
29, age of New Jersey state trooper who was struck and killed as he investigated a report of an abandoned car on Route 193 in Howell Township Sunday morning.
16 hours, how long gas and polluted water spewed from a natural gas well in the Marcellus Shale reserve in Pa.
6 of the 7 goals scored by the Blackhawks while Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger was on the ice. He was in the penalty box for the other one.
9-1, Flyers record in the playoffs at the Wachovia Center. They need to win there Wednesday night to stay alive.
10 innings, how long it took the Phils to lose to the Padres 6-5, after blowing a 5-2 lead.
97 mph fastball on which Jayson Werth struck out to end the game with the tying run on third base.
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Call me a Phanatic: A look at the ups and downs of being a Philadelphia sports fan.
Just as the Phillies bats appear to come to life, the Flyers defense went to sleep.
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I Don’t Get It: An 83-year-old woman woman is attacked in Delaware and has her purse stolen. A 28-year—old man is charged. The attack took place in a church parking lot. Nice.
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Today’s Upper: Kudos to all those who came out and took part in 3 different Relays for Life to battle breast cancer this weekend in Garnet Valley, Springfield and Haverford. They had held one earlier at Penncrest.
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Quote Box: “If we can save somebody else, then that’s the main thing.”
- Michelle Jackson, mother of murder victim Amber Jackson, on her push to focus public attention on the issue of domestic abuse.

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