PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers rallied from an 0-3 deficit early in their match with the visiting Florida Panthers on Thursday night.
“At 3-0 I loved our ability to stay with it and find a way,” Flyers assistant coach Brad Shaw said. “Take that game and get it 5-4, that’s a great sign. The fact that we don’t finish it off, that’s something we have to work on.”
They trailed 2-4 early in the third, but a pair of goals from Own Tippett tied the game, 4-4.
“I don’t think we necessarily played bad in the first,” Tippett said. “Just the way it goes sometimes. We didn’t get too down on ourselves obviously to come back in the second period there, and make it a game going into the third.”
Eventually, the Flyers took a 5-4 lead before the Panthers rallied for a 7-5 win.
Garnet Hathaway scored in the third to give the Flyers the brief one-goal lead.
“At 3-0 I loved our ability to stay with it and find a way,” Flyers assistant coach Brad Shaw said. “Take that game and get it 5-4, that’s a great sign. The fact that we don’t finish it off, that’s something we have to work on.”
Spencer Knight made 29 saves in the win.
“The power play was wired,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. “It’s been great for a while now. Don’t like winning hockey games on our power play [but] we did tonight.”
Florida’s Gustav Forsling tied the game, 5-5, and Sam Reinhart hit off the power play for the Panthers with two minutes left in regulation for a 6-5 lead to the Panthers.
The Panthers scored four goals off power play chances.
Matthew Tkachuk added an empty-net power play strike for the 7-5 final.
Aleksei Kolosov made 16 saves after Ivan Fedotov was given the hook in the first intermission. Fedotov made five saves on seven shots.
