Flyers Drop OT Decision to Flames, Sign Entry-Level Player

Report From Philadelphia Flyers

* Claude Giroux won 28 faceoffs tonight… He also recorded his 300th career assist on Mark Streit’s goal.

* Streit’s goal marked the 15th time in the last 19 games that the Flyers defense has produced a goal… The Flyers defense has now recorded at least a point in 18 of their last 19 games for a total of 40 points (15g-25a) during that stretch.

* Michael Del Zotto appeared in 24:36 of ice-time, which marks the fourth straight game he has logged over 24 minutes of TOI.

* The Flyers recorded 37 shots on goal tonight and had another 33 shots blocked… Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek each had six shots blocked… The Flyers had 86 shot attempts to Calgary’s 53. Sixteen of the Flyers’ 18 skaters recorded at least one shot.

* The Flyers have outshot the opponent 86-43 in their last two losses (Toronto and tonight).

GAME RECAP

PHILADELPHIA — Jiri Hudler scored at 1:23 of overtime to help the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday.

TJ Brodie carried the puck down the left side of the Philadelphia zone and centered it to Hudler, who scored from the slot for his 20th goal. Calgary rookie forward Johnny Gaudreau, who grew up near Philadelphia, had an assist on the game-winner.

Sean Monahan and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames, and Karri Ramo made 35 saves.

It was the Flames’ first game since learning Monday that captain and top defenseman Mark Giordano would miss the rest of the season because of a torn biceps tendon.

Sean Couturier and Mark Streit scored for the Flyers, and goalie Steve Mason made 23 saves.

Trailing 2-0 after two periods, the Flyers scored twice in the first 8:15 of the third period to tie the game.

Couturier started the comeback with a goal at 00:53.

Ryan White won a faceoff on the right side of the Calgary zone, and then Couturier won a board battle with Brodie on the right side and sent the puck to White down low. White carried it behind the Calgary net, came out on the left side and snapped a pass through the crease to Couturier, who scored his 13th of the season from the right post.

The Flyers thought they tied the game at 4:24 of the third period when a pileup in front of the Flames net off the rebound of a Jakub Voracek shot squirted under Ramo, but the referees ruled no goal because of interference on Ramo.

Philadelphia scored a goal that counted at 8:15 when Streit redirected a Michael Raffl shot past Ramo. The play was set up when Philadelphia captain Claude Giroux intercepted an attempted pass out of the zone by Calgary’s Kris Russell. Giroux had an assist on the goal; it was the 300th of his career.

The Flames’ first two goals came off Flyers turnovers.

Backlund gave the Flames a 2-0 lead at 4:58 of the second period. Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds tried clearing the puck out of his end, but his pass was intercepted by Flames rookie forward Emile Poirier. Poirier carried the puck behind the Flyers net and left it for teammate Lance Bouma, who circled behind the net the other way and came out in front on the left side. Bouma slid a backhand shot that bounced off Mason’s pads and Streit’s skate to Backlund on the far post for an easy tap-in goal.

Monahan gave the Flames a 1-0 lead at 6:30 of the first. Flyers defenseman Michael Del Zotto tried carrying the puck through the middle of the ice when he lost it to Hudler. Flyers forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare got back to check Hudler off the puck, but Mason Raymond picked up the loose puck and got it over to Monahan, who fired a hard shot from the right side that beat Mason over his blocker.

The goal was Monahan’s 22nd of the season, matching the total he had last season as a rookie.

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The Philadelphia Flyers have signed 6-0, 200 lb. LW Tyrell Goulbourne to a three-year entry-level contract, according to general manager Ron Hextall.

Tyrell Goulbourne

Goulbourne, 21 (1/26/1994), was a third-round selection of the Flyers (72nd overall) in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. He is currently in his fifth season with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League, where he has recorded 17 goals and 21 assists for 38 points in 55 games this season.

He’s helped the Rockets to a 48-11-3-1 record through 63 games of their season heading into tonight’s game at Everett, which places them first overall in the Western Hockey League.

In 268 career games with Kelowna, Goulbourne has recorded 55 goals and 63 assists for 118 points along with 454 PIM.