Five days ago, Rick Tocchet talked about the Flyers needing to “build a mental toughness” for the grueling parts of the NHL schedule.<\/p>\n
It sure looks like the Flyers found some of that mental toughness Wednesday night amid a stretch of four games in six days, all on the road.<\/p>\n
They rallied from another deficit to knock off the Panthers, 4-2, at Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, Florida.<\/p>\n
With under a minute left, Tyson Foerster blasted home the Flyers’ go-ahead goal before Sean Couturier iced the game on a deflection in front.<\/p>\n
Emil Andrae and Matvei Michkov also provided goals to tie the game in the second period. Andrae (one goal, one assist) and Jamie Drysdale (two assists) finished with multi-point performances.<\/p>\n
The Flyers (12-7-3) bounced back from being shut out for the first time this season in a 3-0 decision Monday night to the Lightning<\/a>. They’ve dropped consecutive games in regulation just once this season (Nov. 1-2).<\/p>\n Tocchet’s club was playing its first of three games in four days, sandwiched around Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n “You might not have your good stuff, you might have your B game, but can you play with your B game?” the Flyers’ head coach said last Friday. “Good angles, shorter shifts, doing things consistently.”<\/p>\n The Flyers took the regular-season series from the Panthers (12-10-1), going 2-1-0 against the two-time defending champs. Florida was without injured forwards Aleksander Barkov (knee) and Matthew Tkachuk (groin) in all three of the meetings.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat a way to win a game for the Flyers. With the score knotted at 2-2 and under a minute to go, Tyson Foerster scored the go-ahead goal, followed by Sean Couturier making it 4-2.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers already have 10 comeback wins, with four of them coming from two goals down.<\/p>\n They need to figure out their starts, but they’ve been competitive and resilient. Those are not bad qualities for a team trying to take the next step.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Dan Vladar was very good again, converting 25 saves on 27 shots.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old has given up two or fewer goals in 10 of his 14 starts.<\/p>\n Fourteen of his saves Wednesday night came in the first period. For the 16th time this season, the Flyers fell behind 1-0. And for the fifth time in the last eight games, they fell behind 2-0.<\/p>\n Brad Marchand struck just 5:21 minutes into the game on a transition opportunity. Nick Seeler had to defend it without a stick as his snapped on a shot at the blue line.<\/p>\n Right before the goal, Andrae committed a turnover that led to five straight Panthers shots and a big momentum swing against the Flyers.<\/p>\n Florida grabbed the two-goal lead 5:16 minutes into the middle stanza, but then the Flyers made their push.<\/p>\n Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 14 of the Flyers’ 18 shots on the night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers had to like the way Andrae responded to a not-so-sharp first period.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old really made things happen in the second period. He sent a shot through traffic for his first goal of the season and then fired another puck for a game-tying redirection by Michkov.<\/p>\n