Last Sunday, in our recap of the Flyers’ win over the Hurricanes, we mentioned how that win was unlike many of the Flyers’ games this season: an early lead, a late lead, good penalty killing, etc. By comparison, for almost 59 minutes, this game played out exactly how many Flyers games have gone this season: an early deficit, a furious mid-game comeback, a third-period backbreaker that would put the Flyers back in a hole.
Except this time, the Flyers would finally end one of those games the way they were hoping to.
An extra-attacker goal by Mark Streit with just over a minute remaining pushed the Flyers to overtime, where their two best players would team up on a goal to end the game and give the orange and black a 4-3 win over the Detroit Red Wings.