In Uniondale, the Philadelphia Flyers made some level of amends for their horrific showing in Manhattan on Wednesday night.
On Thursday, Oskar Lindblom struck twice, including the game-winner in the final frame to beat the New York Islanders, 4-3.
“It’s just trying to try to feel fresh and feel good out there,” Lindblom said. “Today I felt good and I think our line (Lindblom, Konency, Claude Giroux) and our whole team played great. Good in two periods, the third one wasn’t our best but still we found a way to win a game and that’s the only thing that matters.”
Carter Hart made 22 saves to get the win.
“Not just the fact that he (Lindblom) was able to finish and get us the winning goal, but he was strong on pucks,” Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said. “He looked good tonight, he was skating. Hopefully that’s the start of something real positive for him and our team.
“He’s such a good player when he’s on top of his game. Maybe that little break just got him the mental and the physical help that he needed, and he came up big for us today.”
It was not easy as the Isles rallied to tie the game, 3-3, after Jakub Voracek had posted the Flyers to a 3-0 lead.
“The second period our execution was poor,” Islanders head coach Barry Trotz said. “When you need to go north we kept going south and they checked and rechecked us because we weren’t committed to getting pucks out or pushing it north and winning those real hard battles along the walls or for loose pucks.”
Michael Dal Colle, Sebastian Aho and Oliver Wahlstrom rallied the Isles to get the tie.
Claude Giroux also scored for the Flyers.
“I think after the second we just talked about let’s just move forward and get to our game and give ourselves a chance here,” the Islanders’ Josh Bailey said. “Even if tonight doesn’t go the way we wanted, let’s at least finish strong and find something to build off of.
“We played a good, hard third. One play turns into the winning goal for them. It’s unfortunate, but that’s the way the game goes sometimes.”
Semyon Varlamov made 27 saves in the loss.
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