Owen Tippett and Nick Seeler each had a goal and an assist to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Denver Barkey, Travis Sanheim and Bobby Brink also scored for the Flyers (21-12-7), who have won four of their last six games. Philadelphia went 3-2 on its five-game trip.<\/p>\n
Connor McDavid and Evan Bouchard scored for the Oilers (20-16-6), who have lost three of their last four.<\/p>\n
Dan Vladar stopped 22 shots for the Flyers and set a career high for victories in a season with 15 wins in 24 starts.<\/p>\n
Calvin Pickard made 24 saves for Edmonton.<\/p>\n
The Flyers opened the scoring 7:16 into the first period as Tippett fed a streaking Barkey, who directed the puck past Pickard for his first NHL goal. The 20-year-old also has two assists in his first seven games.<\/p>\n
After Edmonton closed within 3-2 after two periods. Seeler’s first goal of the season midway through the third period pushed the lead to two goals.<\/p>\n
McDavid extended his point streak to 15 games. He has 14 goals and 22 assists for 36 points in that stretch.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Flyers: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Oilers: Host the Nashville Predators on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owen Tippett and Nick Seeler each had a goal and an assist to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20672,4843,69,4845,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-77269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-edmonton-oilers","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77269","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=77269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}