The Flyers saw a comeback bid fall short Saturday afternoon as they suffered a 3-2 overtime loss to the Senators at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
Matvei Michkov and Jamie Drysdale provided the Flyers’ goals. Michkov trimmed Ottawa’s lead to 2-1 in the second period before Drysdale tied the game a little over halfway through the third period.<\/p>\n
But the Senators recovered as Tim Stutzle scored the OT winner with his second goal of the day. Trevor Zegras was a step behind in coverage after skating toward the bench for an attempted change.<\/p>\n
“He wanted to come off, but you’ve got to be decisive,” Rick Tocchet said. “It was a tough play, but you’ve either got to come hard or you’ve got to stay on.”<\/p>\n
The Flyers (8-5-2) have lost their last three home games, scoring just 1.67 goals per game.<\/p>\n
They’ve played a lot of close games this season, with nine being decided by one goal. They’re 4-3-2 in those games.<\/p>\n
Tocchet’s club is 0-1-1 against the Senators (7-5-3) with one more matchup to go Feb. 5 back here in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u2022 Samuel Ersson made his first start since Oct. 28 after being activated off injured reserve<\/a> before Thursday’s game.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old converted 10 saves on 13 shots. The Flyers were able to shore things up after a rocky start and allowed just one shot in the third period.<\/p>\n But it wasn’t enough and an early hole didn’t help.<\/p>\n “I’ve got to do a better job getting the team ready,” Tocchet said.<\/p>\n Ottawa jumped out to a 2-0 lead not even six and a half minutes into the game. The goals came in the span of one minute and five seconds.<\/p>\n On the first goal, Bobby Brink was unable to play the puck up the boards, which allowed the Senators to find a wide-open Stutzle for a blast from the circle.<\/p>\n The Flyers were poor in coverage again on the second goal when Michael Amadio made a move in close off a nice pass by Claude Giroux.<\/p>\n