The Philadelphia Flyers pushed back from a 2-0 deficit in the third period to force overtime against the Seattle Kraken at Xfinity Mobile Area on Tuesday. Ultimately, the Flyers dropped a five-round shootout, 3-2 (2-1).<\/p>\n
Bobby McMann (PPG, 3rd goal of the season) gave Seattle an early lead in the first period. The Kraken took it to intermission.<\/p>\n
The Flyers didn’t lack for physicality, feistiness, or scoring chances in the second period. They also got a huge penalty shot save from Dan Vladar on Jordan Eberle. The Flyers still couldn’t finish and left trailing 2-0 on a Ville Ottavainen (1st) goal through a double screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the third period, goals by Christian Dvorak (2nd) and Trevor Zegras (1st) knotted the game at 2-2. Zegras also provided an emotional spark to his team during the second period.<\/p>\n
Matvei Michkov converted a second round shootout attempt. However, Matty Beniers and McMann scored for Seattle.<\/p>\n
Dan Vladar made 29 saves on 31 shots. He was 3-for-5 in overtime. Philipp Grubauer stopped 24 of 26 shots then went 4-for-5 in overtime.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went 0-for-3 on the power play. They were 4-for-5 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
1ST PERIOD<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras had the game’s first scoring chance from between the circles. Grubauer’s\u00a0stick\u00a0sent\u00a0 it wide. A dump-in by Simon Benoit nearly caught Grubauer unaware and the puck barely missed going in the short side.<\/p>\n
Seattle got the game’s first power play at 6:35. Newcomer Jack Studnicka went off for\u00a0a tripping\u00a0minor on Ben Meyers. Vladar made a Grade A save moving across to stone Berkly\u00a0Catton. At 7:57, a bouncing puck went to McMann, who put home a shot high to the short side. The assists went to VInce Dunn and Jordan Eberle.<\/p>\n
Studnicka had a good scoring chance at 10:17. Grubauer made the save.<\/p>\n
At 16:52, Eberle was caught slashing Owen Tippett as the Flyers forward skated past him. The Flyers had some perimeter puck movement — primarily the second unit — but never generated a meaningful scoring chance.<\/p>\n
Shots:\u00a0 Flyers 6 – Kraken 6<\/p>\n
Faceoffs: Flyers 9 – Kraken 7<\/p>\n
2ND PERIOD<\/p>\n
Sean Couturier was stopped at the net after a partially blocked Zegras pass got to him. It started with Philly winning a puck battle in the neutral zone. On the next shift, Matvei Michkov created a good chance for Cates.<\/p>\n
Denver Barkey won a puck battle in his own zone, leading to a transition chance for Philly. Oliver Bonk fired a point shot through a Michael Bunting screen that Bunting tried to deflect.<\/p>\n
Eberle was awarded a penalty shot at 6:23 after he got past Jamie Drysdale and moved in toward the net. Vladar made a great recovery pad save after he failed a poke-check attempt and the shooter went to the backhand.<\/p>\n
Shots through 8:21 were 7-5 Seattle.<\/p>\n
Seattle made it 2-0 at 8:54. Vladar was heavily screened by Matty Beniers and Simon Benoit and was beaten by Ottavainen’s\u00a0point blast. The assists went to Mackie Samoskevich and Josh Mahura.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went to their second power play at 9:32. Eberle went off for hooking Tippett.Porter Martone had a scoring chance. Michkov made a late play. The Flyers didn’t score.<\/p>\n
With play back\u00a0at even strength, Zegras created a good opportunity for Couturier. At 14:00, after a scrum near the net, Zegras mixed it up with Seattle\u00a0players and got the lone penalty (slashing).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Travis Sanheim had a strong shorthanded rush and then recorded a solid hit on Chandler Stephenson.\u00a0 With 38 seconds to go on the initial power\u00a0play, the Flyers went down two men. Cates received a tripping minor.<\/p>\n
Zegras exited the box, fired a shot on Grubauer. The goalie pushed the puck at the Flyers and\u00a0 Zegras shot it right back. The two jostled each other. Zegras got unsportsmanlike conduct at 16:08, along with roughing on Grubauer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shots:\u00a0 Flyers 12 (18 overall) – Kraken 10 (16 overall)<\/p>\n
Faceoffs: Flyers 12 (21 overall) – Kraken 10 (17 overall)<\/p>\n
3RD PERIOD<\/p>\n
Sanheim created\u00a0a chance down low at 3:25. Zegras got hit with the puck on a Couturier shot that almost bounced into the net,<\/p>\n
Oliver Bonk used his feet to move around behind his net, skate up ice and made a pass intended for Tyson Foerster. Instead it went eventually to Dvorak, who ripped a shot into the back of the net at 6:07. Bonk and Vladar assisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers pushed back from a 2-0 deficit in the third period to force overtime against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-306192","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\/306192","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=306192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}