{"id":186858,"date":"2026-05-08T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:10:14","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-on-brink-of-elimination-after-game-3-loss-to-carolina-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186858\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers on brink of elimination after Game 3 loss to Carolina Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov scored on the power play and Jalen Chatfield added a short-handed goal, keying a special teams effort that helped the Carolina Hurricanes win their seventh straight playoff game, 4-1 over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes \u2014 who outshot the Flyers 30-19 \u2014can complete their second straight postseason series sweep in Game 4 on Saturday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes \u2014 coming off a Game 1 shutout and a Game 2 overtime thriller \u2014 again rode the hot hand of Frederik Andersen in net to move to the brink of a sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers, the last team in the East to clinch a playoff spot who then beat Pittsburgh in the first round, had a few sensational early looks at the net but again failed to finish and again failed on the power play. They had the worst power-play efficiency (15.7%) in the NHL this season and did not score with the man advantage in Game 3.<\/p>\n<p>To make it worse, Chatfield scored to make it 2-1 in the second just 11 seconds into the Flyers&#8217; power play with Taylor Hall in the box for boarding.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers hit Andersen with 15 shots during 19 minutes of overtime in Game 2 and whiffed on their chance at the win \u2014 and perhaps their best shot at making this a competitive series \u2014 when Travis Konecny missed a makeable look on a breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>Konecny fired another clean look minutes into Game 3, only for Andersen to knock it away with his pads. Porter Martone, the Flyers&#8217; teen sensation, rang the right side of the post moments later and two great chances at goals meant nothing on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers still had a chance on the power play but were stymied and fell at that point to 1 for 12 in the series and 3 for 29 in nine playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes are too playoff tested, too veteran savvy to not capitalize on Philadelphia&#8217;s slow start.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Staal and Andrei Svechnikov scored on the power play and Jalen Chatfield added a short-handed goal, keying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,4845,71,70],"class_list":["post-186858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186858","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=186858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}