Flyers end Canucks’ streak

PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers hosted the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night and skated off with a 5-2 win that ended Vancouver’s five-game win streak.

Carl Grundstrom #91 of the Philadelphia Flyers shoots the puck past Thatcher Demko #35 of the Vancouver Canucks

The Flyers’ Nikita Grebenkin had a goal and two points in the win.

Dan Vladar made 23 saves in the win

“Just happy to be home,” the Flyers’ Owen Tippett said. “Obviously a long road trip. You want to kind of have a bounce back and use your fans as much as you can. They were great tonight. Obviously in warmup, you can tell there was a lot of people here. We were ready to go in the room.”.

Tippett had a goal in the win.

Max Sasson and Drew O’Connor were the strikers for the Canucks.

“They had more juice than us, their legs were going,” Canucks coach Adam Foote said. “They got inside ice on us. They got to the net and that was the difference.”

Following a scoreless first period, Grebenkin staked Philadelphia to a 1-0 lead in the back half of the second period.

Carl Grundstrom, made it 2-0 early in the third period.

“The goal, that’s what I saw in training camp,” Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said. “Get to the net. He was around the net, and then he made a [heck] of a play to hold it (on the Grundstrom goal). … I think getting that goal really helps him. That’s the places where he’s got to go. He’s going to look at players around the League that score around those areas and are dirty, and they’re inside and he’s a pest out there. That’s when he’s at his best.”

Christian Dvorak ballooned the lead to 3-0 about two minutes later.

The Canucks trimmed the deficit to 3-1 on Sasson’s strike just past the midway point of the third.

Tippett hit off a breakaway for a 4-1 lead,.

“That’s a highlight-reel goal,” Tocchet said. “When he gets engaged, that’s when you know he’s playing. He’s got to get engaged right from the start, because he can do those things.”

Matvei Michkov hit an empty net for a 5-1 lead to the Flyers with 71 seconds left in the clock.

O’Connor scored a so-what goal with 18 seconds left for the 5-2 final count.

“We wanted to finish strong,” O’Connor said. “This game was important. But looking at [the trip] as a whole I think it’s about as good as you can ask for so it’s a good trip for us.”

Thatcher Demko made 34 saves in the loss.