In Pittsburgh Monday night, the Philadelphia Flyers were looking to snap a seven-skid and out up three goals in the middle frame to take a 3-1 lead to the third period.
The problem for the Flyers was the Penguins reversed the tables in the third and scored three of their own to get the game to extra time where Sidney Crosby potted the game-winner for a 5-4 Pittsburgh win.
The loss extended the Flyers’ schneid to eight games.
It wasn’t all roses for the Pens as Matt Murray was helped off the ice in the second period with an injury.
Off a breakaway, the Flyers’ Jakub Voracek collided with Murray in the net who remained on the ice for several m minutes before being assisted to the locker room.
The video suggested a right leg injury where Murray stretched to stop the shot and Voracek was unable to stop his motion forward and extended the hamstring.
Crosby deflected a shot by Kris Letang for the game-winner at 1:48 of the extra session.
“Almost every day,” said Crosby of the winning play that he and Letang practice often. “We’ve played together for a long time. So, I mean, he works on getting shots through, and [Patric Hornqvist] is always working on tips and screening. I’m usually trying to hang around there and get some too.
“[Letang] made a great play. A great, heads-up play. They took the front of the net away and left me open on the side. … I had a thought he might come to me.”
Jake Guentzel struck twice for the Pens in regulation.
In a span of 39 seconds in the third period, the Pens got two goals from Patric Hornqvist and Bryan Rust.
Michael Raffl,Brandon Manning, Sean Couturier, and Shayne Gostisbehere had goals for the Flyers.
The Flyers are 0-3-5 in their eight games.
“It’s hard because we’re playing really good hockey games,” Travis Konecny said. “We’re putting ourselves in a chance to win hockey games, and maybe we just let our guard down for a couple minutes and teams are just taking advantage of those couple of minutes that we’re sitting back.
“Most hockey games, you have those couple minutes and teams don’t capitalize. It just seems that against us right now it almost feels like we have to play a perfect 60 minutes to get the win. … It’s going to turn for us sooner or later here.”
Murray made 20 saves in his time in the net and was replaced by Tristan Jarry after the injury who made eight saves in the win.
“We believe he’s a solid goalie,” Sullivan said. “The game he played against Tampa is a perfect example of what he’s capable of. That being said, if [Murray can’t play], Tristan is going to have to make timely saves for us game in and game out. We believe he can do that.”
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Brian Elliott made 47 saves in the loss.
“We’ve got to finish one of these. There’s really not much more to be said other than that. We’ve got to finish one of these. We’re in position night after night and we were in position again tonight,” Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol said of the skid.
The Flyers dropped to 8-9-7 with the loss.
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