That’s a wrap on the road trip, folks! The Flyers closed this thing out with a matchup against the Leafs up in Toronto, another in a difficult slate of action to begin the calendar year, but they came through with a pretty impressive showing. It wasn’t completely commanding, or overly flashy, but the Flyers hung with a very good team, and managed to get this one to overtime to collect a standings point. They fell short of the win, but there’s a lot that they can come away from this one pleased with. Let’s get into it.
The Basics
First period: 3:24- Tyson Foerster (Cates, Ristolainen), 4:02- Matthew Knies (Matthews, Tanev), 18:52- Oliver Ekman-Larsson (Lorentz, Dewar)
Second period: 11:08- Scott Laughton (Couturier, Ristolainen)
Third period: No scoring
Overtime: 2:25- Morgan Rielly (Matthews, Tavares)
SOG: 32 (PHI) – 25 (TOR)
Some takeaways
Cates line buzzing
There’s a real handful of positives that we could pull from this one, but the continued high level of play of Noah Cates’s line is certainly towards the top of the list.