Philadelphia survive a 13-shot siege
The Flyers needed this one, and they nearly gave it away. Philadelphia beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Monday night, even though the Canucks outshot them 13-1 in the third period. Joseph Woll made 18 saves and Christian Dvorak added two assists as the Flyers ended a slide that had cost them six of their previous seven games.
Michael Bunting opened the scoring at 2:03 of the first period. He carried the puck over the blue line and tried to find Dvorak, Luke Schenn knocked the pass down, and Bunting picked up the loose puck and shot it home himself.
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A power play and an empty net
Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson went to the box for holding Matvei Michkov early in the second, and Philadelphia made him pay. Michkov fed Dvorak behind the net, Dvorak sent it back, and Michkov slid a backhand pass to Travis Konecny at the left post. Konecny found a gap on the short side to make it 2-0 at 3:05.
Tyson Foerster thought he had made it three 22 seconds into the third, but the Canucks challenged and the goal came off for offside. Jonathan Lekkerimaki then cut the gap with a one-timer from the right circle at 12:44. Woll took a delay-of-game penalty at 17:11 for deliberately removing his mask during play, Vancouver pulled Leevi Merilainen for the extra attacker, and Travis Sanheim hit the empty net with 59 seconds left.
Two very different records
Philadelphia came in 1-4-2 over their previous seven games and had lost three straight. Vancouver have lost six in a row and 16 of their last 17, a 1-15-1 stretch. Merilainen stopped 14 shots in net for the Canucks. The Flyers were outshot 15-6 through two periods and still led by two, then held on while the Canucks poured forward.
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