Gut-wrenching OT loss to Carolina for John Tortorella’s club
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Flyers give up lead with 0.3 seconds left, suffer gut-wrenching loss in OT originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Flyers allowed a game-tying goal with 0.3 seconds left in regulation Saturday night before suffering a 5-4 overtime loss to the Hurricanes at the Wells Fargo Center.
Carolina’s last-second comeback spoiled the Flyers’ youth-infused rally.
John Tortorella’s club erased a pair of two-goal deficits and took a 4-3 lead in the third period.
The Hurricanes entered the game 30-1-4 when holding a lead at second intermission. They held a 3-2 edge Saturday heading into the final stanza, but goals from Joel Farabee and Brendan Lemieux put the Flyers ahead.
But Martin Necas flushed a rebound with 0.3 ticks left on the clock after Felix Sandstrom made an initial save to nearly seal the game.
Sebastian Aho punctuated a hat trick with the OT winner just 28 seconds into the bonus session.
The Flyers (25-32-12) dropped to 1-11 in overtime.
Tortorella’s team is 2-10-1 in the second game of back-to-back sets and hasn’t won consecutive games since Jan. 9-14, when it won three straight.
Tyson Foerster scored his first career NHL goal on his well-advertised shot and finished with a two-point game.
Noah Cates also found the back of the net.
The Flyers are 1-1-1 on their season-long seven-game homestand. They’ve lost 17 of their last 22 games (5-12-5).
“We can spit out our record in our back-to-backs. We don’t have a good record period,” Tortorella said before the game. “So I’m not even going to the back-to-backs. We need to get consistent in winning hockey games period.”
The Flyers were swept by the Hurricanes (45-15-8) in their four-game regular-season series (0-2-2).
All four of the Flyers’ losses were by one goal. The Flyers have lost 20 times in games decided by one goal (9-8-12).
Carolina is leading the Metropolitan Division and own the NHL’s second-most points (98), behind only the Bruins (109).
It suffered a tough loss this week when key forward Andrei…
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