Ostensibly, the Flyers played the Boston Bruins at the Wells Fargo Center Monday night, furiously rallying from a 4-0 hole with three third-period goals before falling, 4-3. The score hardly mattered. What mattered is how Corban Knight played, how Dale Weise played, how Jori Lehtera played, how Mikhail Vorobyev and yes, how Brian Elliott played.
Weise scored a shorthanded third period goal after Michael Raffl forced a mid-ice turnover. Vorobyev continued the solid three-zone play that has pushed him to the head of the hopefuls. Claude Giroux added a power play goal, and Travis Konecny an even-strength one, but this was an understandably uneven performance triggered by experimentation more than any talent disparity — the game featured far more Flyers veterans than Bruins veterans.