PHILADELPHIA – Carter Hart may be the real deal in goal; on Monday night ne made 41 saves for his seventh straight win in a 2-1 decision over the visiting Vancouver Canucks.
“I’m not really looking at that,” Hart said. “I just want to win hockey games. That’s our goal here, to keep this thing rolling, take things one game at a time, and just win.”
Right Wing Jake Virtanen (#18) of the Vancouver Canucks and Defenseman Robert Hagg (#8) of the Philadelphia Flyers square of in the third period
Sean Couturier and Jakub Voracek struck for the Flyers who have won eight straight.
“Right now, we’re a confident team,” Couturier said. “Bounces seem to go our way. … I feel like at crucial times we’re stepping up and getting the job done. That’s what you want at this time of the year, get the two points, and lately we’ve been doing that.”
Brock Boeser scored the Canucks’ only game.
“I thought we played a [heck] of a game,” Canucks coach Travis Green said. “Sometimes you play great games and you lose. That was one of our better games of the year.”
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Jacob Markstrom made 28 saves in the loss.
Alexander Edler was stretchered off the ice in the third period after falling to the ice and making contact with his face.
He was taken for x-rays but no update was available at the end of the game.
“You don’t want to see anyone go down like that, especially your best defenseman, and you know it’s scary when you see a guy get knocked unconscious like that. … We wanted to get that one for him, but we just couldn’t capitalize,” Bo Horvat said.
Goalie Jacob Markstrom (#25) of the Vancouver Canucks looks around Center Scott Laughton (#21) of the Philadelphia Flyers
Goalie Carter Hart (#79) and Defenseman Radko Gudas (#3) of the Philadelphia Flyers
Philadelphia Flyers Defenseman Travis Sanheim (#6), Center Bo Horvat (#53) of the Vancouver Canucks, and Goalie Carter Hart (#79) of the Philadelphia Flyers
Goalie Carter Hart (#79) of the Philadelphia Flyers
Goalie Carter Hart (#79) of the Philadelphia Flyers and Left Wing Josh Leivo (#17) of the Vancouver Canucks
Philadelphia Flyers Goalie Carter Hart (#79) tracks the puck as Flyers Defenseman Radko Gudas (#3) lifts the stick of Center Bo Horvat (#53) of the Vancouver Canucks
Left Wing James van Riemsdyk (#25) of the Philadelphia Flyers jumps in an attempt to screen Goalie Jacob Markstrom (#25) of the Vancouver Canucks
Right Wing Jakub Voracek (#93) of the Philadelphia Flyers attempts to jam the puck under the pad of Goalie Jacob Markstrom (#25) of the Vancouver Canucks
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