Flyers stop the bleeding, come away with win over Lightning to bring losing streak to an end.
The Flyers’ home stand rolls on, and it continued tonight with a big matchup between them and the high-powered Lightning. This ended up a close one, with a shootout to decide it in the end, but the Flyers stepped up in a big way here, and brought enough to come away with the win, and bring their five-game skid to an end.
The Basics
First period: 8:29- Gage Goncalves (Gourde, McDonagh)PPG, 14:20- Bobby Brink (Lycksell, Poehling)
Second period: :15- Zemgus Girgensons (Cernak, Hagel), 10:55- Bobby Brink (Couturier), 19:01- Ryan Poehling (Lycksell, Brink)
Third period: 3:50- Cam Atkinson (Hedman, Moser)
Overtime: No scoring
Shootout: Konecny (no goal), Guentzel (no goal), Mihkov (goal), Point (goal), Brink (no goal), Hedman (no goal), Couturier (no goal), Hagel (no goal), Tippett (goal), Bjorkstrand (no goal)
SOG: 29 (PHI) – 20 (TBL)
Some Takeaways
New looks pay off
The Flyers did a bit of shuffling of their forward lines ahead of this game, and it would appear that the tinkering paid dividends this time around.