The Flyers were Michkov-less Saturday night in Florida. And while they could’ve used him on this night, Philadelphia fared fine in a 4-3 overtime loss to the red hot (and defending Cup champion) Panthers, taking home three points in their three-game road trip.
The basics
First period: 4:57 – Joel Farabee (Scott Laughton, Bobby Brink)
Second period: 5:32 – Nate Schmidt (Evan Rodrigues, Aleksander Barkov), 8:40 – Dmitry Kulikov (Evan Rodrigues, Sam Reinhart), 13:00 – Anthony Richard (Travis Konency, Rasmus Ristolainen), 14:56 – Sam Bennett (Carter Verhaege, Niko Mikkola)
Third period: 9:47 – Garnet Hathaway (Scott Laughton, Nick Seeler)
Overtime: No scoring
Shootout: Aleksander Barkov – goal, Travis Konency – no goal, Sam Reinhart – no goal, Owen Tippett – goal, Anton Lundell – no goal, Bobby Brink – no goal, Matthew Tkachuk – no goal, Sean Couturier – no goal, Evan Rodrigues – goal, Morgan Frost – no goal
SOG: 37 (PHI) – 31 (FLA)
Some takeaways
No Michkov, but still a quality effort
As mentioned earlier, the Flyers went without Matvei Michkov for the second consecutive game.