PHILADELPHIA – Michael Raffl scored two goals to help the Flyers edge the Detroit Red Wings, 4-3 Tuesday night.
“He’s unconscious right now,” Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds said. “He’s unbelievable. He’s skating down the wing and everything that hits him is bouncing off of him. He’s doing a heck of a job.”
Defenseman Brendan Smith (#2), Right Wing Anthony Mantha (#39)
Wayne Simmonds and Shayne Gostisbehere also scored for the Flyers.
“We came out firing on all cylinders,” Simmonds said. “We haven’t been the best team in the first period all year long. We made it a point tonight that if we were going to win this game we needed to have a good start.”
Petr Mrazek was busy, making 42 saves in the loss.
“I thought we came out and played really, really well to start the second,” Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. “Our first few shifts were really good. We have to stay out of the [penalty] box for sure. And we can’t have giveaway goals. We have to make teams earn their goals. And certainly their pressure was really good but I thought we had real, real bad mistakes that were preventable.”
Andreas Athanasiou, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Tatar scored for the Red Wings.
“I know we have to win a game on Thursday night,” Blashill said. “I know we came into tonight knowing we needed to win. Now we have to go Thursday night and get a win. That’s the only thing I worry about.
Steve Mason picked up the win for Philly.
“We’ll enjoy this for a couple minutes,” Gostisbehere said. “We’ve got a big game tomorrow. Back-to-back, team that just got beat pretty bad at home the other night (the Blackhawks lost 5-0 to the Los Angeles Kings on Monday). They’re going to be ready and hopefully we’ll be ready for them.”
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