{"id":300714,"date":"2026-10-06T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300714\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:52:07","slug":"lightning-pull-away-late-in-third-keep-flyers-winless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300714\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning pull away late in third, keep Flyers winless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/dan-vladar-8478435\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Vladar<\/a> made 32 saves and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/tyson-foerster-8482159\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Foerster<\/a> scored for the Flyers (0-2-2), who opened the season with four straight losses for the first time since 2014-15 (also 0-2-2).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to be better and it starts with me and (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joseph-woll-8479361\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Woll<\/a>),&#8221; Vladar said. &#8220;Hopefully we&#8217;re going to turn this thing around because, obviously, this is not us. This is not fun. Obviously, our game is not at the level it should be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mikheyev pushed Tampa Bay&#8217;s lead to 3-1 at 17:00 of the third period, tucking in a wraparound on the backhand after taking a pass from Holmberg.<\/p>\n<p>It was his first goal with Tampa Bay after signing a four-year, $15.4 million contract ($3.85 million average annual value) as a free agent on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel scored an empty-net goal at 19:53 for the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n<p>Point gave Tampa Bay a 1-0 lead at 16:05 of the first period, scoring on a redirection from below the hash marks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/john-carlson-8474590\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Carlson<\/a> sent the puck to the net.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have a ton of real good looks, but I think those shots in traffic are good chances,&#8221; Point said. &#8220;It was a big emphasis after that first game to win puck battles. I think the past two games we have done a good job with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Vladar made 32 saves and Tyson Foerster scored for the Flyers (0-2-2), who opened the season with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-300714","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\/300714","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=300714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}