PHILADELPHIA – Samuel Ersson made 19 saves on Sunday in a 5-2 win for the Flyers over the visiting Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Flyers took a 1-0 lead at 5:11 of the first stanza on a goal from Joel Farabee.
The Flyers improved to 10-7-1.
Alexandre Texier tied the game, 1-1, at 15:02 for the Blue Jackets.
Columbus has lost nine straight, going 0-7-2.
IN the middle frame, the Flyer score twice to take control of the game.
Bobby Brink scored off the power play at 2:11 of the second to give the Flyers a 2-1 advantage.
“I knew that I was going to have a lane there,” Brink said. “We’ve kind of talked about shooting and the front of the net guy setting a good screen and ‘Beezer’ [Farabee] did that. When he sets a screen like that, you’ve just got to put it in a spot, and it ended up going in.”
Ryan Poehling hit for a shorthanded strike at 6:41 of the second to push the lead out to 3-1 for Philadelphia.
“The thing that sticks out to me with him is he can skate,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said. “He’s long, he can skate. Talked to his prior coach (Mike Sullivan of the Pittsburgh Penguins), I got some information on him there. And I just want to see him up in the lineup and see if he’s going to sink or swim there. And I think he’s done some really good things. He’s been a good player for us all year long.”
Boone Jenner scored for the Blue Jackets with less than three left in the second to trim the deficit to 3-2.
“The streak we’re on, we have to have a lot better effort if we want to get out of it,” Jenner said.
Columbus dropped to 4-11-4.
The Flyers locked down the defense in the defense in the third and added two markers to give themselves some breathing room.
“I think it’s just the belief in the locker room is the biggest thing for us, and it’s fun to just keep moving forward,” Poehling said. “We have a fun group and we’re fast, we’re hard to play against. So I think that’s kind of our group that we just have to worry about.”
Travis Konecny extended the lead to 4-2 at 12:40 of the third.
Cam York hit an empty net at 17:34 for the 5-2 final.
Spencer Martin made 21 saves in the loss.
“The power play hurts us,” Jenner said. “That’s on us. We have chances, we can’t give up a shorty. We have chances to get back in it too. We have to find a way to get it going. You can see it but it’s hurting us.”
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