PHILADELPHIA – The Carolina Hurricanes’ Brett Pesce scored with just 18 seconds left in extra time on Monday afternoon, to give the Canes a 43 win over the Flyers.
“I knew [Trocheck] had time to make a play,” Pesce said. “I thought I had a step on [Flyers forward Travis Konecny]. I had to try to bat it down and control it. More luck than anything, but thankfully I settled it down and just tried to put it on net.”
Frederik Andersen made 36 saves for the Win.
Oskar Lindblom scored for the Flyers in the third period to tie the game, 3-3, and force the extra session.
“It’s kind of what I thought might happen,” Carolina head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “We came off an emotional game last night, but ‘Freddie’ was good, kept us in the game in the first period. You could tell we didn’t have a lot of energy, a lot of juice, but these guys dig in.”
Gerry Mayhew and Patrick Brown also scored for Philadelphia.
“We’re putting ourselves in a position to win because of things that we’re doing,” Philadelphia coach Mike Yeo said. “We’re not closing out games because of things we may not be doing at certain times of the game. We just have to remain incredibly resilient right now and determined to keep getting better, and I’m going to ask the same of the players.”
The Flyers dropped to 15-25-10.
“I thought we played a really good game tonight,” Mayhew said. “We had some chances in overtime. You’ve just got to keep pushing. If we continue playing like that, we will string wins out.”
Nino Niederreiter and Teuvo Teravainen scored for the Canes.
“There were times in this game where I thought we played very well, and they kept coming back,” Niederreiter said. “It was a good test for us, but we’ve got to make sure we find a way to close out games in regulation obviously.”
Vincent Trocheck also scored for the Canes.
Martin Jones made 27 saves in the Flyers loss.
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