{"id":320893,"date":"2026-11-04T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320893\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:40:09","slug":"wild-beat-flyers-after-referee-deflection-leads-to-game-winning-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/320893\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild beat Flyers after referee deflection leads to game-winning goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist, and Joel Eriksson Ek scored what proved to be the winner after a Flyers clearing attempt hit a referee as the Minnesota Wild beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Wild scored two goals in 31 seconds in the first period. Boldy took a pass from Quinn Hughes and snapped it from the high slot past Flyers goalie Dan Vladar to open the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>On the next shift, a pass from Blake Coleman hit off Porter Martone&#8217;s skate and caromed right to Michael McCarron, who wristed it past Vladar to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers were unhappy with referee Kyle Rehman on the opening shift of the second period. A clearing pass from Jamie Drysdale hit Rehman and created a 2-on-1 for Minnesota. Boldy fed a pass to Erikisson-Ek for a wrister that beat Vladar to extend the lead to 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia&#8217;s Trevor Zegras shouted at Rehman and was immediately assessed a 10-minute misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>Jesper Wallstedt made 23 saves for the Wild, who extended their point streak to six games (5-0-1) and have won five straight on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia closed to within 3-2 on a goal by Tyson Foerster and a power-play goal by Denver Barkey, but the Wild iced the game when Danila Yurov scored an empty-net goal.<\/p>\n<p>The line of Kirill Kaprizov, Eriksson Ek, and Boldy have now gone 17 games to start the season without being on the ice for a goal against.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota returns home Friday to face the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers begin a five-game road trip in New York against the Rangers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Boldy had a goal and an assist, and Joel Eriksson Ek scored what proved to be the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6693,4843,28,69,4845,71,70],"class_list":["post-320893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-minnesota-wild","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\/320893","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=320893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}