{"id":581174,"date":"2026-04-04T06:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:26:09","slug":"nhl-roundup-michkov-leads-flyers-to-4-1-win-over-islanders-tightening-metro-playoff-race-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/581174\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL roundup: Michkov leads Flyers to 4-1 win over Islanders, tightening Metro playoff race | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tippett opened the scoring, completing a forehand-backhand move off a pass from Sanheim with less than seven minutes remaining in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bump extended the Flyers\u2019 lead to two goals when he caught Sorokin out of position and sent a wrist shot just inside the post.<\/p>\n<p>Pageau scored off a feed from Mathew Barzal with less than five minutes remaining in the second period to pull New York within 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>Sanheim scored midway through the third period to restore Philadelphia\u2019s three-goal lead and put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the NHL on Friday:<\/p>\n<p>BLUES 6 DUCKS 2<\/p>\n<p>ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Dylan Holloway scored a pair of power-play goals, Robert Thomas had a goal and two assists, and St. Louis kept its slim playoff hopes alive with a win over Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>Pius Suter and Colton Parayko each had a goal and an assist for St. Louis and Jonatan Berggren added a goal. Joel Hofer stopped 24 shots for the Blues, who pulled to within three points of the final wild-card spot in the Western Conference with seven games left.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Poehling had a goal and an assist, and Jeffrey Viel scored for the Ducks, who remain tied with Edmonton for first place in the Pacific Division but have lost four straight games. Lukas Dostal stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis extended a 3-2 first-period lead with two goals in the second. Tyler Tucker corralled a rebound behind the goal line and flicked a pass to Suter, who snapped a shot past Dostal for a 4-2 lead at the 3:08 mark. Parayko\u2019s shot from the right circle beat Dostal glove-side for a 5-2 lead with 3:10 left.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway\u2019s power-play goal in the third made it 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>The teams combined for five goals in the first period.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tippett opened the scoring, completing a forehand-backhand move off a pass from Sanheim with less than seven minutes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,448,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-581174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-nanaimo","13":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","14":"tag-nanaimo-news","15":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","16":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-oceanside","20":"tag-parksville","21":"tag-qualicum","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}