Islanders fall to Flyers, 3-1, ending four-game winning streak

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kevin Hayes scored two goals, Carter Hart made 23 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Tuesday night.

Travis Sanheim also scored and Lukáš Sedlák added two assists for Philadelphia, which opened a five-game homestand by ending its third double-digit skid in less than 12 months.

Noah Dobson scored for the Islanders, who had won four in a row.

The rebuilding Flyers won seven of their first 12 games under first-year coach John Tortorella before the all-too-familiar slide.

Last season, the Flyers became the first team in NHL history to have a pair of 10-game losing streaks within the first 40 games of a season. They lost 10 straight from Nov. 18 to Dec. 8 before setting a franchise record with 13 consecutive defeats between Dec. 30 and Jan. 25. The first skid cost coach Alain Vigneault his job, the second one came with interim coach Mike Yeo in charge.

Tortorella has been preaching effort, energy and hard work — and Philadelphia came out in this one looking like the Broad Street Bullies of the Flyers’ glory days when they won their only Stanley Cups in 1974 and ’75.

Philadelphia’s Zack MacEwen and the Islanders’ Matt Martin fought to a draw seven seconds into the game. Just a second later, the Flyers’ Nick Deslauriers and New York’s Ross Johnston dropped the gloves in another draw. The physicality and hitting stayed constant throughout.

Emotions were high not only because of the Flyers’ losing streak, but also due to the fact the teams were playing the second game of a home-and-home, following Saturday’s chippy 5-2 Islanders victory in New York.

Dobson gave the Islanders a 1-0 lead when he converted on a 5-on-3 power play with a slap shot 3:12 in.

Sanheim evened the score on a backhand from in close…