Flyers fall to Utah Hockey Club, lose momentum with 3rd straight loss
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Flyers fall to Utah Hockey Club, lose momentum with 3rd straight loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Flyers have followed up their three-game winning streak with a three-game skid.
They lost to the Utah Hockey Club, 4-2, Sunday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
With under six minutes to go in the third period, John Tortorella’s team had a chance to draw even on the power play. But the Flyers allowed a dagger of a shorthanded goal. Morgan Frost over-skated the puck in the defensive zone, which resulted in a breakaway marker for Kevin Stenlund.
Tortorella defended Frost after the game.
“He won’t do that again the rest of his career,” the head coach said.
The Flyers never led Sunday night and have now dropped more than two games in a row for the first time since October, when they endured a six-game losing streak.
Joel Farabee and Owen Tippett scored goals for the Flyers (12-12-4), who are 1-4-0 in the second game of back-to-back sets. They fell to the Bruins, 4-3, in overtime Saturday afternoon at TD Garden.
This was the first-ever matchup between the Flyers and Utah (12-11-4). The teams meet again in February when the Flyers visit Delta Center.
• The Flyers saw the return of their No. 1 goalie.
Samuel Ersson was back in net and made 21 saves on 25 shots after missing the last 11 games with a lower-body injury.
“I thought Sam played well,” Tortorella said. “Looked confident.”
The 25-year-old made an early stop on a semi odd-man rush for Utah. That had to be good for shaking off any rust from going 26 days without game action.
“I maybe felt a little bit rusty,” Ersson said. “I think I played pretty well in the first and then in the second, I feel like I’ve got to come up with one of those saves there. It’s one of those games for me where I kind of feel like it’s not a goal, like, ‘I’ve got to have that one.’ But I need to come up with one extra save for us to get a chance to win.”
Ersson didn’t catch any breaks in the second period when Utah put up three…
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