PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers’ Bobby Brink hit for a double and three points on Thursday night i. a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning after penalties.
Gage Goncalves #93 of the Tampa Bay Lightning scores against Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers
The win ended an ugly five0game losing streak.
I think it felt great for everyone,” Brink said. “Bit of a schneid there for a couple games. So it feels good to get a win.”
Samuel Ersson made 17 saves headed to the skills portion of the evening’s affairs. He stopped four Tampa skaters in the penalties.
The Lighting struck first on a marker form Gage Goncalves at 8:29 of the first period for the 1-0 lead.
Brink potted his first of the game at 14:20 to knot the game, 1-1.
Bobby’s been playing good, period,” Tortorella said. “He just hasn’t finished. He hasn’t scored. Finds a way tonight to score, makes a nice play on ‘Poehls’ goal.
“He’s a good match for Tyson and Cates. I need to get ‘TK’ going, I need to get something going with him. That’s why I switched that. … You look, [Brink] has eight goals coming into tonight’s game, but he ends up with a ton of chances during the year. He just hasn’t finished. Take him off that line, he scores two.”
In the middle frame, Zemgus Girgensons put the Lightning back in the lead, 2-1, with just 15 seconds gone in the period.
Tampa skated without Nikita Kucherov due to illness.
“We had 15 even-strength shots on goal for the game,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “We had the puck way too much to just have that. The boys are working, they’re just … it’s the harder they work, not much is getting done. In the end, we left a lot of plays on the table, and ultimately you do that, the game is in the balance, and that’s what happened, we lost the extra point.”
Midway through the second, Brink collected his double to the tie the game, again, 2-2.
The Flyers claimed the lead with 59 seconds left in the second when Ryan Poehling when. he was left alone in the slot.
“I saw he was out of his crease a bit and had a lot of time and space,” Poehling said. “I’ve had that a few times and hasn’t worked out. So it’s nice that it did that time.”
Cooper was not pleased with the play or goal.
“That should never happen, that goal,” he said. “One of them chasing the puck and three of us, and then all of a sudden within five seconds one of them all alone at our net. That’s inexcusable. You get these tight games and you get down the stretch, you can’t make mistakes like that.”
Atkinson tied it 3-3 at 3:50 of the third period with a shot from the inside edge of the right face-off circle. It was the forward’s first game in Philadelphia since the Flyers bought out the final season of his contract in June.
“Lot of emotions, family is in town, friends,” he said. “Didn’t get the job done. … Have to do a little bit better at shooting when we have opportunities. That’s what kicked us a little bit.
“I think we’re just trying to pass the puck into the net sometimes instead of capitalizing on our opportunities. It’s hard to score goals in this league, so when you have the opportunity to shoot the puck, we have to do more of that and usually good things happen.”
Tampa’s Cam Atkinson brought the two teams to even, 3-3, with less than four minutes gone in the third period.
“Lot of emotions, family is in town, friends,” Atkinson said. “Didn’t get the job done. … Have to do a little bit better at shooting when we have opportunities. That’s what kicked us a little bit.
“I think we’re just trying to pass the puck into the net sometimes instead of capitalizing on our opportunities. It’s hard to score goals in this league, so when you have the opportunity to shoot the puck, we have to do more of that and usually good things happen.”
Jonas Johansson made 26 saves going into the extra session he made three stops on skills.
Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers stops Oliver Bjorkstrand #22 of the Tampa Bay Lightning during the shootout.
Owen Tippett #74 of the Philadelphia Flyers scores the winning goal in the shootout against the Tampa Bay Lightning
Brayden Point #21 of the Tampa Bay Lightning scores a goal in the shootout against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Matvei Michkov #39 of the Philadelphia Flyers scores a goal in the shootout against the Tampa Bay Lightning
Cam Atkinson #13 of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Nick Seeler #24 and Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Ryan Poehling #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers is congratulated for his goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Ryan Poehling #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers shot gets past the Tampa Bay goalie Jonas Johansson #31 and forward Mitchell Chaffee #41
Ryan Poehling #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers faces Jonas Johansson #31 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Bobby Brink #10 of the Philadelphia Flyers uses his backhand to score his second goal of the night against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers stops a shot by Jake Guentzel #59 of the Tampa Bay Lighting
Jakob Pelletier #22 of the Philadelphia Flyers tries to stuff the puck under the stick of goalie Jonas Johansson #31 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers makes a pad save against Oliver Bjorkstrand #22 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Zemgus Girgensons #28 of the Tampa Bay Lightning receives congratulations for his goal against the Philadelphia Flyers.
A shot by Zemgus Girgensons #28 of the Tampa Bay Lightning gets past Philadelphia Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson #33
Bobby Brink #10 of the Philadelphia Flyers celebrates his goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning with teammate Olle Lycksell #15
A shot by Bobby Brink #10 of the Philadelphia Flyers scores against Lightning goalie Jonas Johansson #31
Gage Goncalves #93 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Brandon Hagel #38 of the Tampa Bay Lightning in pursuit of Matvei Michkov #39 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Jonas Johansson #31 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Bobby Brink #10 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Zemgus Girgensons #28 of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Owen Tippett #74 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Ryan Poehling #25 of the Philadelphia Flyers
Samuel Ersson #33 of the Philadelphia Flyers
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