Canes defeat Flyers, 3-1

New coach, same old issues.  The Philadelphia Flyers are not much different under their interim head coach as they were under Dave Hakstol.

On Monday night, the Flyers gave up a goal with just six seconds elapsed in the second period in a 3-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.

Jordan Martinook raced in unmolested and beat Carter Hart with six seconds gone for a 2-0 lead for the Canes.

“That’s the goal of the game,” Canes head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Start a period with four seconds on the power play, they’re not thinking that’s going to happen. Maybe caught them sleeping a little bit. That was huge.”

No one touched him.

“I took step up and felt I could get by them,” Martinook said. “Put a shot on net. Think it went off his glove, but I’ll take it.”

Lucas Wallmark and Andrei Svechnikov also scored as the Canes held a 3-0 lead before the Flyers got on the board.

Curtis McElhinney made 22 saves to get the win for the Hurricanes who improved to 16-17-5.

Jakub Voracek struck for the lone Philadelphia goal as they dropped to 15-18-5 on the season.

“I thought our first period was one of the best periods we’ve had,” Flyers head coach Scott Gordon said. “Didn’t give up many shots, didn’t give up many scoring chances. Thought our transition was great coming out of our zone. And then it changed. We stopped advancing the puck, started playing behind the goal line, and that was one of the things when I got here, we talked about trying to get out of our zone as quick as we can. The first period we did it and after that a little better in third. But in the second period, that’s what cost us the game.”

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Michal Neuvirth made 23 saves after replacing Carter Hart got the start for the Flyers but was given the hook after surrendering all three Canes goals on 10 shots.

“Just three pucks that I should have,” Hart said. “Going forward, I’ll learn from it. Put it behind me and move on to the next one, that’s the name of the game. There’s going to be nights that don’t go our way; tonight was one of those nights.”

Michal Neuvirth came into the game with 2:16 gone in the middle frame.