PHILADELPHIA – The Anaheim Ducks’ Trevor Zegras hit for a pair of goals on Sunday and the Ducks rallied for a 5-3 win over the Flyers on Saturday.
“You want to start off a road trip with a win,” Zegras said. “Hopefully we can keep that momentum from the second and third [periods] and bring it to Carolina.”
Anthony Stolarz made 30 saves in the Anaheim win.
The Ducks improved to 29-32-12.
“It was more of a calming talk and a reset,” Ducks coach Dallas Eakin said. “There’s just so much hockey left. It was a bad first period. … I just thought it was important everybody just settle down, let’s reset, let’s play a two-period game. We didn’t need to kick garbage cans or yell. It was a good chat.”
The Flyers strikers were Travis Sanheim, Ronnie Attard, and Ivan Provorov.
“We came out and whatever we did to them in the first they did the same thing to us in the second,” Provorov said. “Sometimes in the games it happens. It can happen for one, two shifts, but you’ve got to find a way to snap out of it, and we just weren’t able to.”
Philadelphia fell to 23-38-11.
“We came out with the right mindset, the right intentions, doing the right things,” Flyers coach Mike Yeo said. “… We stopped being physical. Obviously execution was a big problem, through the neutral zone especially. And I thought just 1-on-1 battles and the hardness of our game was lacking and we let them take the momentum and run with it.”
The Flyers scored twice in the first period off goals from Sanheim and Attard.
Derek Grant had a goal and an assist, and Sonny Milano, Zach Aston-Reese, and Zegras scored in the middle frame to give the Ducks a 3-2 lead.
After the Flyers tied in the third, Zegras and Derek Grant scored to get the Ducks the 5-3 win.
“I’m just going on instincts out there,” Zegras said. “You play with great players like (forward) Troy [Terry] and ‘G’ (Grant) and they open up space for you. Just make it up as we go along out there. It seems to be working, so why stop trying?”
Martin Jones made 29 saves. in the Flyers loss.
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