Rather sleepy start as always to the afternoon games, but Carter Hart got in the action early with a couple of confident saves in his return to the cage.
Near the halfway point of the first the Flyers started to foray into the offensive zone, but Dale Weise whiffed on a pass with numbers in the Flames zone and a follow-up point blast from Travis Sanheim missed James van Riemsdyk’s stick on the doorstep.
Garnet Hathaway, no relation to Anne, would take the games first penalty at the 10:59 mark to send the Flyers to the power play.