{"id":149724,"date":"2026-03-27T03:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:39:07","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-beat-chicago-blackhawks-5-1-after-scoring-2-goals-in-the-first-233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/149724\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers beat Chicago Blackhawks 5-1 after scoring 2 goals in the first 2:33"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Bump and Sean Couturier scored in the first three minutes of the game and the Philadelphia Flyers used the fast start to cruise to a 5-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bump, Noah Cates and Christian Dvorak had a goal and an assist each for the Flyers, who have won six of their last eight games to stay in the chase for a wild-card playoff spot. Denver Barkey also had a goal for Philadelphia and Samuel Ersson made 25 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Bedard scored his 30th goal of the season for Chicago to become the third Blackhawks player with a 30-goal season at age 20 or younger, joining Jonathan Toews (34 in 2008-09) and Eric Daze (30 in 1995-96).<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Knight had 37 saves for Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Bump scored just 48 seconds into the game and Couturier made it 2-0 at 2:33 of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Barkey made it 3-0 at 5:14 of the second before Bedard got one back.<\/p>\n<p>Cates scored his fourth goal in his last five games with 7:19 to play in the second to make it 4-1. Dvorak scored with 25 seconds left in the second period. With an assist on Dvorak&#8217;s goal, Cates has 40 points this season, a career single-season high.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago&#8217;s Sacha Boisvert played in his first NHL game. The 18th overall pick in the 2024 draft signed his entry-level contract with the Blackhawks on March 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers outshot the Blackhawks 42-26 and won 61.8% of the faceoffs. The Blackhawks, who are well out of the playoff picture, went scoreless on three power-play chances while the Flyers were 0 for 4 on the power play.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks: Play at the New York Rangers on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers: Visit Detroit on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Bump and Sean Couturier scored in the first three minutes of the game and the Philadelphia Flyers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29528,36573,68375,4843,69,4845,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-149724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-jonathan-toews","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}