Hunter McDonald delivered a clean hit on Leonard along the boards. Andrew Cristall went after the much larger McDonald, receiving a cross-checking major and game misconduct for the high hit. The best save of the night was a stop by Woll on a shorthanded breakaway. The Flyers generated four shots on goal.<\/p>\n
With play back at 5-on-5, the Caps caught the Flyers in a line change. Strome (1st) faked a pass to Jordan Kyrou and then fired a shot over Woll at 18:17. The assists went toor Kyrou and Chesley.<\/p>\n
SHOTS: Capitals\u00a0 8 (19 overall) –\u00a0 Flyers 11 (18 overall)<\/p>\n
3rd PERIOD<\/p>\n
Carson Bjarnason entered the game to start the third period.\u00a0 At 1:57, Jonny Brodzinski fired the period’s first shot off the crossbar, the post and into the net. The assists went to Ethan Frank and Chesley (3rd assist of the game).<\/p>\n
Philly went back to the power play at 7:55. However, Brodzinski (SHG, 2nd) fired a Fehervary shot short side high over Bjarnason for a 5-2 edge at 9:45.<\/p>\n
SHOTS: Capitals 8 (27 overall) — Flyers 2 (20 overall)<\/p>\n
Starting lineup<\/p>\n
Zach Aston-Reese – Denver Barkey – Porter Martone
Alex Bump – Jett Luchanko – Cole Knuble
Carl Grundstrom – Jack Studnicka – Matthew Gard
Garrett Wilson -Riley Thompson – Noah Powell<\/p>\n
Simon Benoit- David Jiricek<\/p>\n
Hunter McDonald – Oliver Bonk
Ty Murchison – Helge Grans<\/p>\n
Joseph Woll
Carson Bjarnason<\/p>\n
POSTGAME RAV4<\/p>\n
1.Pairings<\/p>\n
The Flyers rested all five of their incumbent defensemen (Travis Samheim, Rasmus Ristolainen, Cam York, Jamie Drysdale, and Nick Seeler).<\/p>\n
2. Roster battles<\/p>\n
The Flyers took a look at various defensemen vying for one job on the NHL roster: David Jiricek, Oliver Bonk, Hunter McDonald,Ty Murchison and veteran Simon Benoit.<\/p>\n
3. Special teams<\/p>\n
The Flyers’ failed five-minute advantage, the Washington shorthanded goal plus a power play goal were the difference makers. Both teams were officially 1-for-3 on the man advantage.<\/p>\n
4. Positional experimentation: wings and centers<\/p>\n
Barkey started out in the middle but his early game injury created some combination juggling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hunter McDonald delivered a clean hit on Leonard along the boards. Andrew Cristall went after the much larger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-291253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291253","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=291253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}