The Flyers looked like the second-best team on the ice for almost all of Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center. Despite getting within two in the third, Dallas stifled Philadelphia the rest of the way for a comfortable 4-1 win.
The basics
First period: 1:45 – Mavrik Bourque (Matt Dumba, Logan Stankoven), 9:38 – Roope Hintz (Evgenii Dadonov, Jason Robertson)
Second period: 8:41 – Wyatt Johnson (Jamie Benn, Nils Lundkvist)
Third period: 6:47 – Morgan Frost (Travis Konecny, Egor Zamula), 16:47 – Miro Heiskanen (Esa Lindell, Jason Robertson) (ENG)
SOG: 27 (PHI) – 23 (DAL)
Some takeaways
Plug pulled on cardiac comeback
After looking dead in the water for much of the night, the Flyers broke the goose egg seven minutes into the third when Morgan Frost buried a bounce off the backboards behind Casey DeSmith.