The Flyers gave it the old college try, but the Vegas Golden Knights were too much for them, shutting the door on them in the third for a 5-2 win Thursday night in Vegas.
The basics
First period: 0:21 – Tyson Foerster (Bobby Brink, Noah Cates)
Second period: 0:51 – Mark Stone (Jack Eichel, Noah Hanifin), 2:13 – Nicolas Hague (Keegan Kolesar), 18:22 – Pavel Dorofeyev (Shea Theodore, Brayden McNabb)
Third period: 2:46 – Alexander Holtz (Noah Hanifin, Alex Pietrangelo), 4:56 – Travis Konecny (Owen Tippett, Morgan Frost) (PPG), 19:24 – Tanner Pearson (Mark Stone, Jack Eichel) (ENG)
SOG: 25 (PHI) – 27 (VGK)
Some takeaways
Defense has good and bad moments
After a lull in the second, the Flyers began to see their blueline carry the puck more and deeper into the Vegas zone.