Edmonton Oilers fall to Philadelphia Flyers – Edmonton
The Edmonton Oilers suffered their first lack of the season, falling 5-3 to the Philadelphia Flyers Wednesday night time at Rogers Place.
Claude Giroux grabbed a missed shot off the backboards and wrapped it round to open the scoring. Mikko Koskinen misplayed the puck behind his web to arrange the Flyers’ second aim by Nate Thompson.
The Oilers got here again 35 seconds later with Tyson Barrie flipping a backhand previous Carter Hart for his first of the season. Connor McDavid had his cross try tick in off Justin Braun for a power-play aim with 17.8 seconds to go within the first.
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The Flyers regained the lead with simply 0.6 on the clock when Cam Atkinson whapped a bouncing puck previous Koskinen.
Zach Hyman scored the one aim of the second interval, changing a cross from Jesse Puljujarvi within the first minute of the body. Hyman has 5 objectives in his final three video games.
Atkinson drilled a protracted shot underneath Koskinen to revive the Flyers’ lead 4 minutes into the third. The Oilers went on the facility play with six minutes left however couldn’t muster the tying objectives.
Sean Couturier put it away with an empty netter.
Hart made 34 saves whereas Koskinen made 30.
The Oilers, 5-1, will go to Vancouver on Saturday.
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