Christian Dvorak scored twice and had an assist, and Cam York and Bobby Brink scored for the Flyers (23-17-9), who have lost seven of eight (1-5-2). Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale each had two assists, and Ersson made 22 saves.
“We had good parts of [the game], but that’s unacceptable what happened tonight,” Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. “We sunk in pressure situations, something that we’ve got to get out of this team, right? You’ve got to rise to the occasion. You’ve got to want to be out there in pressure situations. A couple of guys sunk in certain situations, so it’s the bottom line. We’ve got to recover from it.”
York gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead just 30 seconds into the first period. Dvorak got a piece of Travis Sanheim‘s shot from the slot before it was initially stopped by Vejmelka, but the rebound was buried by York from the bottom of the right face-off circle.
Dvorak made it 2-0 at 4:36 when he took a pass from Konecny in stride into the offensive zone and went backhand-forehand to tuck the puck around Vejmelka’s right pad.
“I thought for the most part we were the better team, played some good hockey, but sat back a little bit,” Dvorak said. “It’s a tough loss, it stings, but we can’t let it drag on the next game.”