PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers handed the visiting Vancouver Canucks a 2-0 shutout loss on Tuesday night.
Carter Hart made 25 saves in the win.
“We did an unbelievable job just keeping the pressure on them,” Hart said. “Establishing our forecheck, throwing pucks to the net and generating some chances off rebounds and making some plays. We played really well tonight.”
In the middle frame, the Flyers outshot the Canucks, 24-3.
“That wasn’t up to our standard,” Canucks forward J.T. Miller said. “We didn’t win enough battles, not strong on the puck, not sticking to the criteria of what makes our team good. We just got away from our game. Not how we want to play.”
The Flyers took a 1-0 lead at 1:45 of the first on a strike by Egor Zamula .
“We’ve got some guys, they better pick it up,” Canucks coach Rick Tocchet said. “I don’t like the word soft, but I didn’t see guys competing at all. And that’s alarming. But saying that, we win two games, let’s not get too high, it was a bad effort, so let’s not get too low. But we’ve obviously got to go to the drawing board with some guys.
“We were off all over. We were off every single system part of it. And then the compete wasn’t there. They competed and we didn’t. Bottom line.”
Sean Couturier scored off a penalty shot in the third to give the Flyers a 2-0 lead.
“Obviously I dream about scoring goals in the NHL, but coming into the game I just focus on doing the little details right, play the right way and lead by example, and chances will come, points will come,” Couturier said. “Just got to stick to it.”
It was his first goal in nearly two years.
“He’s missed a long time and for him to come back and work his way back and play the way he’s playing right now,” Hart said. “He’s a huge part of our team and a leader. He’s been here for a long time, and we look to him for leadership and he’s done an amazing job. He’s got a tremendous work ethic to work all the way back after not playing for that long and he’s come in like he hasn’t missed a beat.”
Thatcher Demko made 40 saves in the loss.
“I can’t even pick one guy who played well except Demko, who was unreal,” Tocchet said. “He was great tonight, and the rest of the guys weren’t.”
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