No Travis Konecny as Connor McDavid takes over in 3rd period
[ad_1]
No Konecny as Flyers can’t hold off McDavid & company, finish road trip 1-3-0 originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Clinging to a 2-1 lead in the third period Tuesday night, the Flyers saw a charging Connor McDavid and couldn’t slow him down.
The best player on the planet took over and the Flyers lost to the Oilers, 4-2, at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta.
John Tortorella’s club had a commendable effort through the first two periods of the game, holding the NHL’s most lethal offensive team to just 10 shots.
McDavid and his partner in crime Leon Draisaitl completely flipped the script in the final stanza. The Oilers took advantage of a double-minor penalty, fired 17 shots at Carter Hart and put the Flyers on their heels to send them home with a 1-3-0 road trip.
The Flyers (23-26-10) faced a tall order without Travis Konecny, who suffered an upper-body injury the night before in the team’s 4-3 win over the Flames. The Flyers’ leading goal scorer and point man will be reevaluated when the club returns to Philadelphia.
Noah Cates and Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, who are 2-9-0 in the second game of back-to-back sets.
The Flyers have gone 2-5-1 in February and have three games left before the March 3 NHL trade deadline.
With a 2-1 shootout win over Edmonton at the Wells Fargo Center earlier this month, the Flyers went 1-1-0 against the Oilers (31-19-8) in their two-game regular-season series.
• The world class duo of McDavid and Draisaitl turned it on when winning time rolled around.
Olle Lycksell, playing in his sixth career NHL game, was hit with a double-minor high-sticking infraction just under six minutes into the third period.
The league’s No. 1 power play went to work as Draisaitl tied the game at 2-2.
Fewer than six minutes later, McDavid handed Edmonton its first lead with an even strength marker.
Looking for an equalizer, the Flyers couldn’t convert on a 6-on-4 late in the period. With the Flyers’ net emptied, McDavid scored a shorthanded empty-net…
[ad_2]
