Easton Cowan scored 2:48 into a wild overtime and Scott Laughton had a short-handed goal in his return to Philadelphia as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Flyers 2-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Cowan scored on a 2-on-1 rush off a pass from John Tavares, ending a wide-open extra period as the teams went up and down the ice and both goalies made sprawling saves to keep the game going. <\/p>\n
Toronto netminder Dennis Hildeby stoned Trevor Zegras on a breakaway, and later made consecutive saves on Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier to spring the odd-man rush that led to Cowan’s goal.<\/p>\n
Hildeby finished with 22 saves for the Maple Leafs, who lost their previous five road games. <\/p>\n
Laughton, who spent 12 years with the Flyers before being traded to Toronto at last year’s deadline, scored a short-handed goal to tie the score with 5:56 to play in the third period. <\/p>\n
Travis Konecny scored the lone Philadelphia goal 55 seconds into the second period. It was the 14th this season for Konecny, who exited after the second with an upper-body injury. <\/p>\n
Dan Vladar stopped 21 shots for the Flyers, who are 1-10-3 in their last 14 games against Toronto. <\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Maple Leafs: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Flyers: Welcome the Tampa Bay Lightning for the first of a two-game set in Philadelphia on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easton Cowan scored 2:48 into a wild overtime and Scott Laughton had a short-handed goal in his return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,69,4845,71,70,726,10176],"class_list":{"0":"post-82098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82098","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=82098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}