With Sean Couturier again within the lineup, the Flyers picked up an exciting 3-2 win Saturday afternoon over the Bruins on the Wells Fargo Heart.
Travis Konecny scored his twenty ninth and thirtieth targets of the season. Tyson Foerster buried the game-winner with 1:31 minutes left.
Konecny broke the ice late within the second interval with an influence play purpose. Through the third interval, he put the Flyers again in entrance, 2-1, earlier than Danton Heinen bought it again 56 seconds later.
All of it arrange for Foerster’s heroics. The rookie winger had an help, as nicely.
“We by no means surrender,” Foerster mentioned. “We all the time stick collectively.”
The Flyers (36-26-9) have earned a minimum of a degree in three straight video games (2-0-1).
John Tortorella’s membership is 2-2-1 on this grueling seven-game stretch towards contenders. It has the Panthers and Rangers remaining.
The Flyers now have 12 wins over top-10 golf equipment. They went 1-2-0 towards the Bruins (41-16-15) of their three-game regular-season sequence. After permitting 12 targets over the primary two conferences, the Flyers restricted Boston this time.
“Excessive marks,” Tortorella mentioned. “That is a very good hockey staff clearly. I assumed we stood proper in there and performed a very good third interval.”
Because the 2021-22 season, the Flyers have gone 2-7-0 towards the Bruins.
• Couturier returned to the lineup after a two-game benching.
“It is behind me now,” he mentioned of the consecutive wholesome scratches. “I do not need to actually speak about it. I simply need to assist the staff in any approach I can. All of it labored out nicely, we bought three out of 4 factors and now 5 out of six. I assumed as a staff all of us responded actual nicely.”
The Flyers’ captain performed nicely on the fourth line with Noah Cates and Olle Lycksell. It could have been the Flyers’ handiest line.
The trio had sustained time within the offensive zone, created some appears and drew the penalty to arrange Konecny’s man benefit marker.
“I assumed they checked nicely. I assumed the road performed very well,” Tortorella mentioned. “I believe Lycksell is a man that the increasingly I see him, it is one thing that we’re thinking about so far as what he will be. He is had some scoring possibilities, too, however the different aspect of the puck, I believe he has performed fairly nicely.
“All three of these guys, I might begin them within the offensive zone more often than not, that they had some shifts towards their high traces and I believe they did a reasonably good job.”
Nicolas Deslauriers, Cam Atkinson, Denis Gurianov and Marc Staal had been wholesome scratches.
• With 11 video games to go, the Flyers are in third place of the Metropolitan Division, a spot they’ve held for the reason that finish of January. They entered Saturday with a 75.4 % probability to make the playoffs, per Hockey-Reference.com’s chances report.
After Saturday’s win, they’re 4 factors forward of the Capitals and 6 up on the Islanders. Washington has performed two fewer video games than the Flyers and New York one fewer. The Flyers have yet one more matchup with every staff.
The Flyers Postgame Stay crew broke down the staff’s 3-2 win Saturday afternoon over the Bruins.
• Samuel Ersson recorded 18 saves on 20 photographs. He has stopped 75 of 83 photographs within the Flyers’ three-game level streak.
“I believe all 12 months now we have been enjoying good towards high groups,” the 24-year-old rookie mentioned. “Clearly you need to respect them, however we all know what we will do, we’re a very good staff, as nicely. We’ve got to imagine that and exit and show it each evening.”
Boston tied the sport just a little over halfway by means of the third interval with a purpose from Justin Brazeau. It got here on the Flyers’ third defensive pair of Egor Zamula and Erik Johnson. Brazeau completed with a very good transfer on Ersson.
Konecny was nearly the hero however Heinen surprised the Flyers to make it 2-2. Morgan Geekie one way or the other snuck a cross-ice cross by means of the Flyers’ protection.
The Flyers had been in a position to maintain David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand scoreless.
Bruins netminder Linus Ullmark stopped 26 of the Flyers’ 29 photographs. He was strong by means of two durations however Boston wanted him to be higher late.
One minute and 16 seconds after Konecny scored within the center body, Johnson laid out and made a wonderful defensive play to ignite a Scott Laughton breakaway. However Ullmark made a flashy glove save to maintain the Bruins inside one at second intermission.
“I do not suppose you guys notice how large of a play that was,” Konecny mentioned of Johnson’s effort. “As a result of there was a breakdown and you recognize harmful their staff will be. It was enormous.”
Johnson, who the Flyers acquired on the commerce deadline, additionally had excessive reward for Konecny.
“From what I knew earlier than, a terrific competitor, actually good at getting underneath a staff’s pores and skin,” the veteran defenseman mentioned. “There is a tremendous line, proper? You do not need to go over that line and harm your staff, however you need to play on the sting and be that thorn within the different staff’s aspect. For T.Okay., he has bought that talent and that abrasiveness. It has actually helped our group.”
• The Flyers are proper again at it Sunday once they host Florida (6 p.m. ET/NBCSP+).
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