Brind’Amour said he could feel a sense of relief on the bench with the early lead. Especially in the second game of a back-to-back, it was the ideal start for a team looking for its first win.<\/p>\n
“They know what we have to do,” he said. “I don’t really have to say much, but at the same time you got to get into it, and I think tonight certainly we were.”<\/p>\n
Tippett tied it 1-1 at 8:03, putting the puck through a maze of players in front with a snap shot from the slot.<\/p>\n
Michkov put the Flyers ahead 2-1 at 7:20 of the second period. Travis Konecny<\/a>\u00a0outmuscled Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a>\u00a0on a puck in the Hurricanes zone and centered it for Michkov alone in front of the net, and he lifted the shot over a sliding Kochetkov.<\/p>\n Following Michkov’s goal, however, the Flyers had just two shots the remainder of the period and were outshot 20-8 for the remaining 35:31 of the game.<\/p>\n The Flyers had two power plays during that stretch, including one that carried into the first 34 seconds of overtime. But, in the entirety of the game, they went 0-for-4 on the man-advantage with four shots on goal and just one during their 4-on-3 power play in overtime.<\/p>\n “You have to get the puck,” Tocchet said. “You have to execute plays. Our execution is not good this year. It really isn’t. And if you don’t execute, you’re not going to get shots. So we have to execute.”<\/p>\n Aho scored his second of the game to tie it 2-2 at 4:59 of the third period on the power play from above the hashmarks in the center of the offensive zone.<\/p>\n NOTES:\u00a0Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen<\/a>\u00a0left the game after playing one shift in the third period because of an undisclosed injury. Tocchet said Ristolainen would be evaluated Sunday. … Carolina won its opening road game for the ninth straight season, matching the NHL record held by Philadelphia (1980-81 to 1988-89). … It’s the first time the Flyers have lost the first three games of a season since opening 0-2-2 in 2014-15. … Carolina forward Jordan Martinook<\/a>\u00a0played his 800th NHL game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brind’Amour said he could feel a sense of relief on the bench with the early lead. Especially in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-299506","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\/299506","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=299506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}