The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Colorado Avalanche, 3-2, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
Matvei Michkov paced the attack with two goals. Trevor Zegras collected three assists (first time as a Flyer). In net, Joseph Woll looked sharp in earning his first win as a Flyer.<\/p>\n
The Flyers controlled the first 12 minutes of the game. Colorado made a late push. Philly took a 1-0 lead to intermission. Scoring in his third straight game, Michkov (PPG, 5th) bagged a 5-on-4 rebound goal.<\/p>\n
Michkov (2nd of the game, 6th of the season) struck again on a seeing eye shot in the second period. Martin Necas (5th) cut the gap to one goal moments after a Colorado power play expired late in the frame.<\/p>\n
Noel Acciari (1st) restored a two-goal edge in the third period. T.J. Hughes (2nd) narrowed it back to one goal.<\/p>\n
Woll stopped 24 of 26 shots for the win. Mackenzie Blackwood made 21 saves on 24 shots.<\/p>\n
The Flyers went 1-for-2 on the power play. They were 2-for-2 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
Cole Knuble made his NHL debut. His father, Mike, was a two-stint Flyer during\u00a0his playing days. Mike was in the stands on Monday. The Knubles are the first father-son combination to appear in regular season for the Flyers.<\/p>\n
1ST PERIOD<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon exploded through the middle on his first shift of the game. He snapped a shot that Woll knocked aside. A Travis Sanheim point shot through traffic was Philly’s first shot.<\/p>\n
At 5:52, Sean Couturier won a battle down low and centered the puck out to Jacob Gaucher. On the next shift, Trevor Zegras worked a 2-on-1 with Noel Acciari. Blackwood made the save. Shots were 3-3.<\/p>\n
At 7:07, Philly went to the first power play. MacKinnon caused his team to have too many men on the ice. Zegras made a good play off the left wall, but the point shot was unscreened. One shift later, the Flyers scored. Zegras made and initial play. Then a Zegras shot rebounded to Michkov with Porter Martone camp in front. Martone appeared to be pushed into the paint. Michkov scored at 7:41. The assists were credited to Barkey and Zegras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Colorado Avalanche, 3-2, at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Monday evening. Matvei Michkov paced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-310276","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\/310276","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=310276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}