PHILADELPHIA – The Minnesota Wild’s Matt Boldy and Jonas Brodin scored 25 seconds apart in the third period to ruin a perfectly pleasant evening for the Flyers on Thursday.
Philadelphia led, 4-3, heading to the third third until those two strike handed the Flyers a 5-4 loss.
“We played good in spurts, but it was a grind,” Wild coach Dean Evason said. “The positive thing is that we did grind continually, kept grinding, everybody, and we’re fortunate to get it done.”
Cam Talbot made 26 saves in the Wild win.
“As soon as the adversity struck, we crumbled,” Philadelphia coach Mike Yeo said. “That seems to be a growing trend for us, and we have to fix that.”
Minnesota improved to 32-17-3, after stopping a four-game skid.
Scott Laughton and Patrick Brown had goals for the Flyers, their goals gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead.
Frederick Gaudreau scored for the Wild to tie the game, 2-2.
“You just look at the highlights and you’re going to see some goals [allowed], we had pucks on our sticks and opportunities to make plays and we didn’t,” Yeo said. “… We can keep preaching it, we can keep trying to motivate, we can keep pushing, and we will, believe me. I love this group, I believe in this group, but [the players] have to grab hold of this.”
Ryan Hartman hit for a double for Minnesota.
“When you get down in these kind of low points it takes a game like that to kind of get out of it,” Harman said. “… It happens every season. There comes a time where that happens and you’ve got to find a way out. You can’t let it drag on too long. Maybe dragged out a little longer than we hoped, but it’s good to get that one. We didn’t want to let another one slip away. A lot of character being down a goal going into the third, but we know we couldn’t wait any longer.”
The Flyers dropped to 16-28-10.
Travis Konecny and James van Riemsdyk (power play) helped put the Flyers up, 4-3, after two periods.
“Obviously it [stinks] losing, especially losing that way,” van Riemsdyk said. “I think we’ve shown we can carry the play against some of these good teams, but obviously [there are] some key times in the game where we need to be a little bit sharper and execute a little bit better.”
Carter Hart made 33 saves in the Flyers loss.
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