{"id":419973,"date":"2026-10-06T06:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419973\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:44:11","slug":"lightning-roll-past-the-winless-flyers-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419973\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning roll past the winless Flyers 4-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Pontus Holmberg and Ilya Mikheyev each had a goal and assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 13 shots to move into a tie for 20th place on the <a href=\"https:\/\/records.nhl.com\/records\/goaltender-records\/wins\/most-wins-career\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL career wins list<\/a>, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vasilevskiy&#8217;s 372nd victory moved him into a tie with Andy Moog. Vasilevskiy needs two more wins to tie John Vanbiesbrouck for 19th place.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Point and Brandon Hagel also scored for the Lightning, who have won two games since an opening-night loss to the New York Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson Foerster scored for Philadelphia and Dan Vladar finished with 32 saves.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers are winless (0-2-2) through four games to start the season for the first time since 2013-14. Philadelphia has been held to two or fewer goals in all four games.<\/p>\n<p>Point scored his first goal of the season with a deflection off a wrist shot from John Carlson at 16:05 of the first period. Holmberg scored 17 seconds into the second period off the rush for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Foerster wheeled a shot from the top of the left circle that hit Tampa Bay defenseman Charle-Edouard D&#8217;Astous in front of the net to bring Philadelphia with one at 7:22.<\/p>\n<p>Mikheyev made it 3-1 with a wraparound with three minutes to play. Hagel added an empty-netter.<\/p>\n<p>Nikita Kucherov picked up two assists and now has 1,128 career points to move past Mike Bossy and Joe Nieuwendyk for 67th place.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Barkey made his season debut for the Flyers after missing the first three games with an undisclosed lower-body injury.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>Flyers: At Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lightning: Host Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Pontus Holmberg and Ilya Mikheyev each had a goal and assist, Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,4386,115,110,135,862,137,136],"class_list":["post-419973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-hockey","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}