NOVEMBER 9: Flyers 3/Maple Leafs 2 (Shootout)
The Philadelphia Flyers started a two-game road trip and the second back-to-back series of November, in Toronto with a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Flyers started the game with good speed and were able to get to the power play early when Nick Shore got a penalty for tripping three minutes into the game.
During what turned out to be a quiet power play, the Flyers spent a decent amount of time in the Maple Leafs’ zone, getting quality shots, but were not able to finish. Phillipe Myers scored his second goal in two games midway through the period to give the Flyers the lead. Assists were by James van Riemsdyk and Joel Farabee; making it 1-0, Philadelphia. Goalie Brian Elliott strong in the first period, looking for redemption for his shootout loss to the Maple Leafs last week, even daring to come far out of his net to stop a break-away chance.
With a few minutes left in the first, Ilya Mikheyev was called for interference against Travis Konecny giving the Flyers a late power play. Oskar Lindblom scored his 8th goal of the season on the powerplay Kocency and Shayne Gostisbehere earned the assists for the deflected goal; making it 2-0 Flyers.
The second period started in favor of Toronto as Jake Voracek was called for a hooking minor giving the Leafs their first power-play of the night.
Elliott was unable to keep the Leafs at bay and allowed a goal by Travis Dermott, a snapshot assisted by William Nylander and Auston Matthews, to cut the Flyers lead. It would be the only goal of the period, as the Flyers power-play failed to convert on a boarding penalty by Dmytro Timashov and the Flyers shut down a Leafs power-play after Claude Giroux was called for tripping.
An early William Nylander goal in the third period would be enough to send the game into overtime, tied at two goals apiece.
The Flyers had multiple chances to finish in the 3-on-3 overtime, with Ivan Provorov and Kevin Hayes both missing prime scoring chances, but couldn’t finish the Leafs off. The overtime ended with the Flyers getting called for too many men and no goals by either team, forcing a shootout.
Cage Cleaning:
- Four of the Flyers last Five games have gone to overtime, three of those have been decided in the shootout, bringing the Flyers points streak to five games (including the shootout loss to the Leafs on November 2nd).
- Brian Elliott made 38 saves on 40 shots against the Maple Leafs in his revenge game. Last week, Elliott took the Leafs to 11 rounds in the shootout before an eventual loss.
- Sean Couturier played the hero for the second time in two games, scoring the final shootout goal for the Flyers win.
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