PHILADELPHIA — Bobby Brink scored the one objective of the shootout, beating Marcus Hogberg to the glove aspect on the fifth attempt to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday.
The loss eradicated New York from the Jap Convention playoff race.
Tyson Foerster scored two targets within the victory — together with a go-ahead objective on the 10:39 mark of the third that gave Philadelphia a 3-2 lead. Foerster now has 24 targets on the season, together with 5 in his final two video games. Jakob Pelletier added the Flyers different objective whereas Samuel Ersson recorded 37 saves in selecting up his twenty second win of the yr.
The Islanders would tie the sport with simply 1:01 left to play when Bo Horvat’s wrist shot snuck via a maze of our bodies and beat Ersson between the pads.
Anders Lee had New York’s objective. Hogberg recorded 19 saves within the loss.
TAKEAWAYS
Islanders: New York owned puck management for the primary two intervals, however appeared to fade for many of the third. They’re 2-5-3 of their final 10 video games — an enormous motive why they light out of the playoff image within the East.
Flyers: With Foerster, Travis Konecny and Matvei Michkov now growing as wingers, common supervisor Daniel Briere can now take a look at buying a top-line middle to assist regular the Philadelphia offensive assault.
KEY MOMENT
The Flyers tied the sport early within the third on a nifty passing set from Ryan Poehling to Owen Tippett to Pelletier, who squeezed it previous Hogberg to flip the momentum of the sport.
KEY STAT
Philadelphia is now 5-1 since John Tortorella was fired as coach on March 27.
INJURIES
Islanders: New York ahead Pierre Engvall needed to be helped off the ice late within the third interval with an obvious knee damage suffered within the Philadelphia defensive zone.
UP NEXT
The Islanders go to New Jersey and the Flyers head to Ottawa for Sunday afternoon matinees.
