Just 37 seconds into the game, the Flyers had the lead. And eight minutes later, they had a two-goal lead for the first time in their last six games. However they wouldn’t make it out of the first period with a lead, and early on in the second they themselves would be on the wrong side of a two-goal lead.
They were able to climb back and pick up a point in the standings, but in the end it was the Carolina Hurricanes who left with a 5-4 overtime victory.
It may have been the period that contained their longest lead of the road trip, but the first period of last night’s game was flat out awful.