PHILADELPHIA – The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Vancouver Canucks Thursday night, 5-4, in a shootout with Michal Neuvirth getting the win in relief.
The goalie carousel hit in this game when Steve Mason was given the hook after the second intermission; he had yielded four goals on 24 shots.
Defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere (#53), Goalie Michal Neuvirth (#30)
Neuvirth also stopped all three Canucks shooters in the skills completion and made 14 saves in the third and extra session.
“I was confident coming into the game and I’ve been practicing well,” Neuvirth said. “Coach [Dave Hakstol] asked me to shut the door and that’s what I did.”
It was a messy affair with little flow and the Flyers trailed three times in the game.
“That was ugly wasn’t it?” Philadelphia forward Brayden Schenn said. “Probably not the way we wanted to draw it up, but at the end of the day we got the two points.”
Claude Giroux was the only goal scorer in the shootout.
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Sean Couturier, Schenn, Travis Konecny, and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare scored for Philadelphia in regulation.
Ryan Miller took the loss on 33 saves.
Markus Granlund scored twice and Brandon Sutter and Daniel Sedin had goals for the Canucks who dropped their record to 20-19-5.
“Four goals, that should be enough, I think that’s the bottom line in this game. It’s not a League where you have to score four goals to win, but if you do you should win,” Henrik Sedin said.
It was the third straight road loss for Vancouver including two beyond regulation.
“We haven’t been scoring an awful lot, so when you get four, you’d like a win,” Vancouver coach Willie Desjardins said. “But we got a point.”
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