{"id":211993,"date":"2025-10-14T05:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211993\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T05:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:46:07","slug":"couturier-flyers-defeat-panthers-for-tocchets-1st-win-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211993\/","title":{"rendered":"Couturier, Flyers defeat Panthers for Tocchet\u2019s 1st win as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zegras got the pass off before he was hit by Bennett and Aaron Ekblad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I settled it for a second and tried to read the play, and two guys came pretty hard,” Zegras said. “Just tried to get it off my stick as quick as possible. … You kind of look up for like a split second, see where your guys are. Obviously if two people are coming at you … somebody’s probably open. Little bit of [an] area [pass], a little bit of feel for where the guys are, for sure.”<\/p>\n

Tocchet was as impressed by Zegras holding on to the puck to make the play as he was by the skill it took to make it.<\/p>\n

“That’s what I like,\u201d Tocchet said. \u201cYou know you’re going to get hit and you’re willing to take it to make a play. It’s a high-level play.”<\/p>\n

Brink made it 4-2 with an empty-net goal at 17:43 before Dvorak also scored into an empty net at 18:33 for his first goal with the Flyers and the 5-2 final.<\/p>\n

Foerster put Philadelphia ahead 1-0 at 8:54 of the first period. Couturier knocked down a clearing attempt by Panthers defenseman Uvis Balinskis<\/a>, and his pass attempt up the wall hit Bennett and went to Foerster. He skated through the left face-off circle and beat Tarasov to the short side.<\/p>\n

Couturier scored on a breakaway to make it 2-0 at 15:47 of the second period.<\/p>\n

Reinhart scored a short-handed goal to make it 2-1 at 19:22. After Vladar stopped his initial shot, Reinhart pushed his own rebound behind the net, where he took the puck away from Brink and scored on a wraparound at the right post.<\/p>\n

“We had no momentum at that time, and that gave us a bunch of life going into the end of the period there,” Bennett said. “That was a big-time goal, and it really motivated us for the third there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zegras got the pass off before he was hit by Bennett and Aaron Ekblad. “I feel like I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-211993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}