{"id":236873,"date":"2025-10-24T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:58:08","slug":"ullmark-makes-22-saves-senators-edge-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/236873\/","title":{"rendered":"Ullmark makes 22 saves, Senators edge Flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Foerster<\/a> scored, and Dan Vladar<\/a> made 31 saves for the Flyers (3-3-1), who had won two straight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wasted a good night from \u2018Vlady,\u2019\u201d Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. \u201cI thought he did a nice job in net for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Flyers were held to seven shots in the third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have an interior game tonight. That was a major factor,\u201d Tocchet said. \u201cA lot of guys didn\u2019t want to commit to going to the net.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senators’ penalty kill, which entered the game last in the NHL at 57.7 percent, was 3-for-3. The Flyers were 5-for-5.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought [Vladar] played great again; he\u2019s been a rock back there for us,\u201d Philadelphia defenseman Travis Sanheim<\/a> said. \u201cNot ideal when you have that many penalty kills and you\u2019re giving up looks and he\u2019s coming up big for us and keeping us in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foerster gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead 29 seconds into the first period when he took a centering pass from Travis Konecny<\/a> and beat Ullmark blocker side with a wrist shot from the middle of the slot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was tough. I think they played pretty well in their D-zone,\u201d Foerster said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to get more shots to the net, more traffic in front of their goalie. We\u2019ve got to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amadio scored his first goal of the season to tie it 1-1 at 7:57. He accepted a seam pass from Giroux, skated in on a partial break and beat Vladar with a wrist shot short side.<\/p>\n

Eller fed Lycksell with a between-the-legs pass for a tap-in at the edge of the crease to give Ottawa a 2-1 lead at 3:05 of the second period.<\/p>\n

It was Lycksell\u2019s second NHL goal and his first with the Senators. He scored his first NHL goal in 2023-24 with the Flyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a big relief,\u201d Lycksell said. \u201cIt was a special moment. I have some of my family over from Sweden. … A great play by Eller to find me there. A great heads-up play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The depth scoring from Amadio and Lycksell was a boost for a Senators team that is missing captain Brady Tkachuk<\/a>, who is sidelined with a torn ligament in his right thumb.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need it,\u201d Green said of the depth scoring. \u201cIn today\u2019s NHL, especially with our team, Brady being out, we\u2019re going to need contributions throughout our lineup. And we got it tonight from a couple guys who hadn\u2019t scored yet this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES: Forward Sean Couturier<\/a>, who had an assist on Foerster\u2019s goal, has eight points (two goals, six assists) in his past five games. \u2026 Giroux has 12 points (three goals, nine assists) in 12 games against his former team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Foerster scored, and Dan Vladar made 31 saves for the Flyers (3-3-1), who had won two straight.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-236873","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\/236873","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=236873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}