The Flyers were facing the worst goaltending in the league in terms of save percentage in Ottawa Thursday night, and yet they managed to make them look competent, resulting in Ottawa edging the visiting Flyers 2-1.
The basics
First period: 0:29- Tyson Foerster (Travis Konecny, Sean Couturier), 7:57- Michael Amadio (Claude Giroux, Artem Zub)
Second period: 3:05- Olle Lycksell (Lars Eller, Nick Jensen)
Third period: No scoring
SOG: 22 (PHI) – 33 (OTT)
Some takeaways
Vladar’s valiant effort
With the Flyers looking quite nice when it comes to stopping shots — something unheard of the last two seasons — Philadelphia went to the well again with Dan Vladar for his fifth start in seven games thus far.