{"id":657340,"date":"2026-05-08T08:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:36:09","slug":"flyers-power-outage-continues-in-game-3-loss-to-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/657340\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers\u2019 power outage continues in Game 3 loss to Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Flyers still were on the power play and got a break moments later when the Hurricanes bench was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after coach Rod Brind’Amour argued with the officials following minor penalties called on Drysdale for holding and Carolina forward Seth Jarvis<\/a>\u00a0for high-sticking at 16:33.<\/p>\n

That gave the Flyers a 5-on-3 advantage for 1:15.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, it was a big moment of the game,” forward Christian Dvorak<\/a> said. “Would have been nice to create a little bit more and worst case get some momentum.”<\/p>\n

The Flyers won the opening face-off, but the Hurricanes quickly cleared it, and Philadelphia finished the two-man advantage with just one shot on goal.<\/p>\n

“Right off the bat we take a shot, we have three guys behind the guy who shot the puck,” Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said. “We were just too antsy. And then they have two up and one back, and you got to go low with the play. We’ve got to make a low play. So, there’s a couple of things that we just … when the pressure hits, the reads were not there.”<\/p>\n

They still weren’t there when the 5-on-3 ended. The Flyers had another 45 seconds of power-play time but had just two shots on goal.<\/p>\n

“Could have came up big for us,”\u00a0Sanheim said. “Could have used one on the power play and then to boot, to give one up short-handed, definitely hurt us.”<\/p>\n

It’s hurt them more than just in this game.<\/p>\n

“We’re trying,” Tocchet said. “There’s reads and plays you have to make to be on a power play. We’ve got some guys that are playing power play that probably wouldn’t play a lot of minutes on the power play. And we’re trying to get these guys to understand certain things. But that’s on us. It’s on me to try to figure it out.”<\/p>\n

It’s something the coaches and players have failed to figure out to this point. And if they aren’t able to figure it out in Game 4, they might have a long offseason to work on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flyers still were on the power play and got a break moments later when the Hurricanes bench…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-657340","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\/657340","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=657340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}