The Philadelphia Flyers lost to the Anaheim Ducks, 5-4, in a seesaw affair at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Saturday afternoon. The Flyers held leads of 2-0 and 3-2,\u00a0but the game went to the third period tied at 3-3. Anaheim pulled ahead in the third period.<\/p>\n
The Flyers controlled most of the play in the first period. A 5-on-3 power play goal by Matvei Michkov (7th) and a 5-on-4 tally by Porter Martone (3rd) sent the Flyers to intermission with a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia controlled the first seven minutes of the middle frame. However, a turnover down low led to a Leo Carlsson goal (3rd). Subsequently, A.J. Greer (2nd) tied the game at 2-2.<\/p>\n
Tyson Foerster (SHG, 2nd) briefly restored a\u00a0Flyers\u00a0lead with a shorthanded goal. However, Judd Caulfield (2nd) soon re-tied the score.<\/p>\n
Two minutes into the third period, defenseman Tristan Luneau (1st) scored a short-side bleeder that found the net for a 4-3 Anaheim lead. Beckett Sennecke (PPG, 6th) added an insurance power play goal.<\/p>\n
A few minutes later, Michkov scored his second of the game (8th of the season) to bring Philly back within 5-4.<\/p>\n
Joseph Woll turned away 21 of 26 shots in the loss. Lukas\u00a0Dostal made 28 saves on 32 shots.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went 2-for-7 on the power play. They were 1-for-4 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
1ST PERIOD<\/p>\n
Noel Acciari threw a big hit on the game’s first shift.<\/p>\n
Sean Couturier had the game’s first Grade A chance off a feed from Tyson Foerster.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went to the game’s first power play at 5:42. Jackson\u00a0LaCombe\u00a0went off for high sticking. Matvei Michkov was stopped by Dostal in transition. The Flyers had two chances near the net as the penalty expired.<\/p>\n
The Flyers generated six of the first 10 shots in the period.<\/p>\n
Hunter McDonald landed a big hit on Sam Colangelo. McDonald ended up fighting Sam Colangelo at 13:41. The Flyers ended up with a two-minute 5-on-3, as\u00a0Colangelo\u00a0got an initial roughing penalty and A.J. Greer was penalized for instigation (with an automatic 10-minute misconduct).<\/p>\n
Taking a pass from Jamie Drysdale, Michkov moved over the middle and wristed home a shot through traffic at 5:48. The assists went to Drysdale and Trevor Zegras.<\/p>\n
Philly also cashed in the remaining 5-on-4. Porter Martone went to the back door and tucked a cross-seam Travis\u00a0Sanheim feed into the net for a 2-0 lead at 15:02. The assists went to Sanheim\u00a0and\u00a0Zegras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers lost to the Anaheim Ducks, 5-4, in a seesaw affair at Xfinity Mobile Arena on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-507352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}