PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers could not hold a 2-1 lead over the Calgary Flames Saturday and lost 3-2 in overtime.
TJ Brodie scored with 1:59 gone in the extra session to lift the Flames to the win.
“Took me a second to realize it’s a chance at a 2-on-1,” Brodie said. “I think they had two guys behind the net and it worked out.”
David Rittich made 32 saves in the win.
Philadelphia had goals from Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny were seemingly in control of the game until Matthew Tkachuk, scored with less than five minutes left in regulation.
“It’s obviously pretty frustrating,” Sanheim said. “Felt like we had control most of the game. A couple breakdowns and that cost us the game.”
Johnny Gaudreau also had a strike for the Flames who improved to 26-13-4.
“It was a grind (but) we got better as we went,” Flames head coach Bill Peters said. “Got in our own way a little bit, we took an O-zone penalty, we shot one over the glass and we had a couple too many men on the ice penalties. They’ve got a good power play, that gave them some momentum, put us on our heels. But we settled in and found a way to get it done.”
The Flyers dropped to 15-20-6 with the their sixth straight loss.
“That seems like what it’s been like the last couple weeks now, something little happens and it just snowballs into a goal against. We’ve got to play smart 200-foot hockey if we’re going to get out of it and [Saturday] wasn’t it,” the Flyers’ Jordan Weal said after the loss.
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Carter Hart made 29 saves in the loss.
“Obviously we want to play with the lead,” Konecny said. “It’s a lot easier that way. It’s hard chasing games and it’s tough on us as well. We played a pretty solid game tonight.”
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