In Vancouver, all the scoring happened in the first period as the Philadelphia Flyers picked up another road win, 2-1, over the Canucks.
Sean Couturier had a goal and two points in the Flyers’ win.
“In back-to-backs usually you have your legs going early and you’ve got kind of a carryover from the last game, especially [because] we had a big win last night,” Couturier said. “It’s more as the game goes on, you want to keep that same pace. It’s not easy. The travel legs kind of get to you, but tonight we did a good job defensively and we had ‘Jonesy’ to save us a couple of times, so that was that was huge.”
Martin Jones made 27 saves for the Philadelphia win.
“In the third (period) we found a way, even though on back-to-back nights and [being] late getting in here, we found a way to get the energy to roll the lines and get the two points, so really happy with what we’ve done these first two games on the road trip,” Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said. “We’re going to recover, we’re going to rest up tomorrow and then we’re going to get ready for Calgary.”
Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes tied the game, 1-1, in the opening frame.
“It’s definitely frustrating,” Hughes said. “Everyone in the room wanted that one. That was an important game. It’s still a young season, but that’s frustrating. I thought we were going to score late, but it didn’t work out.”
James van Riemsdyk scored the game-winner off the power play.
Jaroslav Halak made 26 saves for the Canucks in the loss.
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