PHILADELPHIA – The Flyers held a 2-1 lead after the opening frame and briefly a 3-2 lead in the second period, before the Carolina Hurricanes reeled off four straight goals in a 6-3 win on Friday afternoon.
Antti Raanta made 20 saves in the Canes.
Carolina improved t 15-3-1.
Sebastian Aho hit for a pair of goals in the Canes victory.
“It’s good to finish the road trip in the right way,” Aho said. “Probably wasn’t the ideal schedule for this last game for us. Just a great job by our team. We went to work there and got the two points though, so that’s huge.”
Ivan Provorov, Joel Farabee and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for
“We’re being challenged right now and as an organization,” Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault said. “It’s a challenging time but everyone has to be better and that starts with me. I’ve got to do a better job of making sure that guys perform to their level.”
Philadelphia dropped to 8-7-4; the Flyers are 0-3-2 in their last five games.
After Aho tied the game, 2-2, in the second before Ristolainen put the Flyers up, 3-2.
“In the second, all our Grade A (chances) seemed to go in,” Hurricanes head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “I don’t think we did anything differently (from the first period). We just got to our game, and for the most part the whole night we did, played our game the way we needed to.”
Carolina’s Jesper Fast, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, and Steven Lorentz scored to make it 5-3 to close out the middle frame.
“Just flying across the country yesterday after kind of a couple tough games (2-1 loss against Kraken on Wednesday, 2-1 overtime loss to San Jose Sharks on Monday), feels like we’ve been on the road forever,” Brind’Amour said. “I just thought the guys dug in tonight. You’re not always going to get those results but it was nice to see.”
The Cane’s Andrei Svechnikov‘ scored in the third period for the 6-3 final.
“That was a big goal,” Brind’Amour said. “It kind of just put the game out of reach and we just kind of cruise through the third period, which you don’t often have that.”
Carter Hart made 30 saves in the Flyers loss.
“I think bounces right now just aren’t going in,” Farabee said. “I thought we had a lot of chances, Carter made a lot of big-time saves. … We know what works and we know our system works, it’s just a matter of doing it. I think with a practice day tomorrow we reset and focus on the next one.”
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