PHILADELPHIA – Cam Talbot made 35 Thursday night for his third career shutout of the Philadelphia Flyers in a 4-0 win for the Edmonton Oilers.
“I don’t know what it is,” said Talbot, who is in his first season with Edmonton after playing his fir
st two in the NHL with the New York Rangers. “I felt pretty comfortable again tonight. Penalty kill did a heck of a job in front of me, and it’s a big two points for this group tonight.”
The oilers got goals from Nail Yakupov, Taylor Hall, Patrick Maroon and Lauri Korpikoski.
“I felt like it wasn’t a really good game on our part,” Philadelphia defenseman Mark Streit said. “But we still had some chances and hit the posts a few times but couldn’t get any breaks. It was a tough night for us.”
Michal Neuvirth made 27 saves in the Flyers loss.
The story of the game was the Oilers penalty kill that went 7-for-7 on the night.
“I thought we were very well-prepared for their power play,” Oilers coach Todd McLellan said. “They have some tendencies that are very similar goal after goal. They’re very good at it; I think they’re one of the best power plays in the League, in my opinion.
Having been around some of their players at the [2015 IIHF] World Championship, you begin to see tendencies and you know what they prefer to do, so you take away outlets and options. I thought our group did a tremendous job.”
The Flyers trail the Pittsburgh Penguins by five points for the wild card spot in the east.
“We’ve got 19 games left,” Philadelphia forward Wayne Simmonds said. “I saw Pittsburgh won tonight, so that hurts for us, [but] you can’t really dwell on it. Tomorrow is a new day.”
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