{"id":240430,"date":"2025-10-21T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240430\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:55:08","slug":"flyers-roll-kraken-with-five-goals-to-go-3-1-0-on-homestand-nbc-sports-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240430\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers roll Kraken with five goals to go 3-1-0 on homestand \u2013 NBC Sports Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Flyers picked up their most convincing win of the season Monday night with a 5-2 drubbing of the Kraken at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Tippett continued his early-season surge with two more goals. Tyson Foerster and Noah Cates added power play markers, while Travis Konecny found the back of the net for his first of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Cam York collected three assists and Sean Couturier recorded two.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought we just played with confidence,&#8221; York said, &#8220;from the top to the bottom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eleven different players finished with at least a point for the Flyers (3-2-1), who won three of four games on their homestand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we made it hard on them to defend and that&#8217;s what you want to do,&#8221; Couturier said. &#8220;I think there&#8217;s still room to improve, but it&#8217;s a good start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rick Tocchet&#8217;s club handed Seattle its first regulation loss of the season. The Kraken (3-1-2) were missing Jared McCann, their top point producer from last season, because of a lower-body injury, as well as key defenseman Brandon Montour, who was out for a personal reason.<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers face Seattle again Dec. 28 when they visit Climate Pledge Arena out of the holiday break.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tippett now has five goals through six games.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, it took him 25 games to put up five.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it makes it easier for that confidence to kind of stick around,&#8221; Tippett said of the goal numbers. &#8220;But at the same point, you can&#8217;t get too focused on that. You&#8217;ve still got to work on our goal here and playing a complete game with whoever you&#8217;re on the ice with. Obviously it&#8217;s nice to see them going in right now, but there are other parts of the game we&#8217;ve got to focus on, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old winger bookended the Flyers&#8217; scoring against the Kraken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looks like a guy that&#8217;s dialed in,&#8221; Tocchet said.<\/p>\n<p>After morning skate, Tocchet was asked if Tippett&#8217;s combination of speed and power reminded him of anyone. He likened Tippett&#8217;s strengths to Stars winger Mikko Rantanen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to compare him, but if you watch Rantanen, I&#8217;ve been watching him this year, going through the neutral zone,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/emotionally-invested-owen-tippett-fast-start-for-flyers\/690809\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com\/nhl\/philadelphia-flyers\/emotionally-invested-owen-tippett-fast-start-for-flyers\/690809\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Flyers&#8217; head coach said<\/a>. &#8220;Powerful speed. If teams back out, he does those deep delays. If a team tries to stand up on him, he goes around them. You can do both those things, then you become those type of players.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Flyers put up five goals Monday night, handing the Kraken their first regulation loss of the season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dan Vladar made 21 saves on 23 shots. The 28-year-old has yet to give up more than two goals in a game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vladdy I thought played great and kind of gave the bench confidence even when they got some odd-man rushes,&#8221; York said. &#8220;It starts with him and then I thought we just did a better job of putting the puck in the back of the net.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vladar earned consecutive starts after going 2-1-0 with a 1.65 goals-against average and .934 save percentage in his first three outings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s seeing the puck, looks really good,&#8221; Tocchet said. &#8220;He has given us a chance to win every night he has been in the net.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seattle netminder Joey Daccord surrendered the Flyers&#8217; five goals on 21 shots and was pulled at second intermission.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Flyers&#8217; power play was 1 for 15 coming into the game.<\/p>\n<p>It went 2 for 4 on the night. The Flyers needed that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like the movement on the power play, that part has been good,&#8221; Tocchet said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just the execution is the next part for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRick Tocchet addressed the media following the Flyers&#8217; 5-2 win Monday night over the Kraken.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tocchet went with his youngsters against the Kraken. Jett Luchanko and Nikita Grebenkin drew into the lineup for Rodrigo Abols and Nicolas Deslauriers.<\/p>\n<p>In the first period, Grebenkin stood up for Garnet Hathaway after the Flyers&#8217; winger took a big hit from Cale Fleury. Grebenkin was given a two-minute minor penalty for instigating, a five-minute major for fighting and a 10-minute misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>But the Flyers had to like Grebenkin&#8217;s instincts to defend a team guy like Hathaway. The Flyers&#8217; penalty kill also did its job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll kill those kind of penalties,&#8221; Couturier said. &#8220;Not sure he&#8217;s ever fought before, but it&#8217;s nice to see that he cares about his teammates and he&#8217;s willing to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Konecny had a tussle with Ryan Lindgren in the third period. The two jawed with each other from their respective penalty box.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Flyers have two days before their next game Thursday when they visit the Senators (7 p.m. ET\/NBCSP).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flyers picked up their most convincing win of the season Monday night with a 5-2 drubbing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[109735,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-240430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-flyers-analysis","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}