{"id":315795,"date":"2026-10-28T03:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315795\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T03:34:11","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-late-heroics-fall-short-in-overtime-loss-to-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315795\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers&#8217; late heroics fall short in overtime loss to Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Johnson scored his second goal of the game 2:22 into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Tuesday night after coughing up a three-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus scored three goals in a 2:46 span of the first period to lead 3-0 after one.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson set up Adam Fantilli for the first goal at 10:58 of the first period, and then deflected Zach Werenski&#8217;s shot past Flyers goalie Dan Vladar at 12:54. Denton Mateychuk scored for Columbus 50 seconds later. Cam Talbot made 28 saves for his third win this season.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson scored the overtime winner on a two-on-none breakaway, following a give-and-go with Fantilli. It was Johnson&#8217;s sixth goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia forced overtime by outshooting Columbus 28-6 over the final two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Cates scored his first goal of the season by poking a loose puck past Talbot, while Trevor Zegras cut the deficit to 3-2 with just under five minutes left in regulation. Zegras slid a pass to Tyson Foerster, who fired a shot on Talbot that Jamie Drysdale tipped into the net with 11 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Vladar made 11 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Despite losing consecutive games, the Flyers have scored points in four of five games after starting the season with a franchise-record nine-game winless streak. Columbus won consecutive games for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets continue their road trip Thursday in Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers travel to Washington to play the Capitals on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent Johnson scored his second goal of the game 2:22 into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,28,69,4845,71,70],"class_list":["post-315795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-nhl","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315795","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=315795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}