The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Washington Capitals, 4-1, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Young Washington forward Ryan Leonard (13th goal of the season) opened the scoring with a mid first period power play goal. The period was otherwise evenly played.<\/p>\n
Early in the second period, Travis Konecny (24th) tied the score at 1-1. Later, Owen Tippett and Trevor Zegras (22nd goal) worked a give and go from the redline in and took a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
During a third period 4-on-4, Jamie Drysdale (7th) opened a 3-1 edge. Tippett (21st) added a late empty net goal for added insurance.<\/p>\n
Samuel Ersson stopped 21 of 22 shots to earn the win. In a losing cause, Logan Thompson made 19 saves on 22 shots.<\/p>\n
FIRST PERIOD SYNOPSIS<\/p>\n
Ersson padded aside a right circle shot from Justin Sourdif for the first save of the game. At 2:29, Ersson tracked and held a point shot from Timothy Liljegren. Washington won the ensuing faceoff. Ersson denied a shot from Dylan Strome between the circles.<\/p>\n
At 3:00, Thompson saved a Travis Sanheim shot out of play for his first stop.<\/p>\n
Tippett created the game’s first power play at 4:16. Speed into the Washington zone in transition, Tippett was held by Liljegren as he drove toward the net. Philly failed to capitalize on the 5-on-4.<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras took a hooking penalty at the defensive blueline at the 9:03 mark. Rasmus Ristolainen blocked a shot from Alex Ovechkin. However, at the 9:51 mark, Leonard cut in from the boards and fired home a shot for a 1-0 lead. The assists went to Ovechkin and Pierre-Luc Dubois. It was the fourth goal the Flyers allowed in their last five PK opportunities.<\/p>\n
Jake Chychrun hooked Zegras at 11:57 as Zegras attempted to retrieve a turnover that came out near the Caps’ blueline. Trevor Van Riemsdyk blocked a shot\u00a0 in the slot. Alex Bump fired a flat angle shot at the net. The penalty expired.<\/p>\n
There was a scrum after the whistle at 14:03. Nikita Grebenkin and Brandon Duhaime received offsetting roughing minors. The teams skated at 4-on-4. With 49 seconds left, Ristolainen got his foot caught up with Rasmus Sandin and received a tripping penalty. Philly killed off the 4-on-3 and 5-on-4.<\/p>\n
Shots: Flyers 7 – Capitals 7
Faceoffs: Flyers 8 – Capitals 9<\/p>\n
SECOND PERIOD SYNOPSIS<\/p>\n
Konecny knotted the game at 4:23. Taking a cross-ice pass on the right wing, Konecny’s shot from the dot found the net on the blocker side. The assists went to Sanheim and Bump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Washington Capitals, 4-1, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday night. Young Washington forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-535451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535451","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=535451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}