The Flyers had another comeback effort in them in Tampa, but their efforts fell just short as they fell at the hands of the NHL’s hottest team on Saturday afternoon.
Ivan Provorov, James van Riemsdyk, and Claude Giroux scored for the Flyers, who pulled as close as 4-3 with a handful of minutes left, but Nikita Kucherov sealed the deal to give the Lightning a 5-3 win in the end.
The homesteading Lightning would strike first as Alex Killorn beat Carter Hart on an odd sequence in the Flyers zone.