The Philadelphia Flyers lost to the\u00a0Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1,\u00a0at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Sunday evening. The Flyers are winless through seven games (0-5-2). Carolina has won each of its last five games.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0first period was scoreless. The Flyers were outshot, 11-5, but kept most of the play to the outside. Philly had a couple of looks at the net but missed the net four times and got blocked two other times among 11 attempts. It was a good neutral zone defensive period for the Flyers.<\/p>\n
The game remained scoreless for the first 10 minutes of the middle frame, then the teams combined for four rapid-fire goals. Unfortunately, three belonged to the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n
Midway through the second period, Andrei Svechnikov (4th) turned a Flyers neutral zone turnover into a 1-0 lead for Carolina. Shayne\u00a0Gostisbehere\u00a0(2nd) struck about three minutes later for a 2-0 edge.\u00a0Christian Dvorak (1st) got a goal back on a deflection. However, Sebastian Aho (6th) quickly restored a two-goal margin for Carolina.<\/p>\n
Mark Jankowski (4th) added an extra insurance goal in the third period. He has scored in four straight games.<\/p>\n
Joseph Woll made 26 saves on 30 shots.<\/p>\n
Pyotr Kochetkov stopped 18 of 19 shots.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went 0-for-3 on the power play. They were 4-for-4 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
The Flyers placed Travis Konecny\u00a0(lower body) on injured reserve. They recalled defenseman Oliver Bonk from the Lehigh Valley Phantoms.<\/p>\n
1ST PERIOD<\/p>\n
Mark Jankowski,\u00a0with goals in three straight matches, had the game’s first scoring chance. Woll made the save. Carolina also had the second shot.<\/p>\n
Christian Dvorak fired a wrist shot on net with traffic in front. It was Philly’s first shot on goal of the game at 5:01. Two shifts later, Woll stopped a Shayne Gostisbehere shot off a drop pass from Taylor Hall.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Oliver Bonk got a marginal cross-checking minor at 11:59. Carolina went to the game’s first power play. As the penalty was about to expire — Philly had the same four-man unit on the ice for the entire two minutes — Woll stopped Jackson Blake.<\/p>\n
Bonk went right back to the box at 14:37 for hooking Logan Stankoven. Nick Seeler missed the net wide on a shorthanded rush after a feed from Sean Couturier. Nikolaj Ehlers had a good look but missed the net. After a clearing play, Logan Stankoven went offside on re-entry.<\/p>\n
Will Carrier took Carolina’s first\u00a0penalty, tripping Bunting at 17:12. The Flyers lost two faceoffs. Finally, Philly gained entry. Denver Barkey and Trevor Zegras had looks but couldn’t find the mark. As the penalty expired, Woll misplayed a puck and had to scramble for a save.<\/p>\n
Shots: Flyers 5 – Hurricanes 11<\/p>\n
Faceoffs: Flyers 16 — Hurricanes 8<\/p>\n
2ND PERIOD<\/p>\n
For the second straight game, Owen Tippett rang a shot off the goal post.<\/p>\n
Foerster went to the net for a scoring chance. He couldn’t finish it,\u00a0but the Flyers drew a holding penalty on Carrier at 1:11.\u00a0Woll fought off a shorthanded chance for Stankoven after Jiricek was beaten on the rush. Michkov went offside on a rush attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Flyers paid dearly for a neutral zone turnover that led to a 2-on-1 and a Carolina goal. Svechnikov beat Woll to the top corner for a 1-0 lead at 10:16. Sean Walker had the lone assist.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zegras turned the puck over inside the Carolina blueline. On a 2-on-1 counter, Gostisbehere scored off an Aho feed. Carrier had the secondary assist at 13:45.<\/p>\n
Dvorak got the Flyers on the board at 15:26. Barkey won a battle for the puck and made a low-to-high play to Seeler. Dvorak deflected the point shot home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers lost to the\u00a0Carolina Hurricanes, 4-1,\u00a0at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Sunday evening. The Flyers are winless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-304818","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\/304818","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=304818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}