Philly Sports Jabronis
Game Recap From Philadelphia Flyers
* The Flyers posted 42 shots, marking just the fifth time they’ve ever recorded 40 or more shots against Anaheim.
* The game saw 50 shots through the first two periods of play (PHI: 29, ANH: 21) and ended with a combined 70 shots on goal (PHI: 42, ANH: 28)… Anaheim recorded 15 shots in the first period and a combined 13 shots in the second and third period, and no shots in overtime.
* Wayne Simmonds extended his goal-scoring streak to three games and also recorded an assist, giving him his third consecutive multi-point game… He now has five goals on the season, which is second in the NHL behind Rick Nash of NYR (6)… Simmonds is one of three players tied for the league lead with seven points, pending the end of tonight’s games. He’s also tied for the league lead with Anaheim’s Corey Perry with three power play goals.
* Claude Giroux and Jakub Voracek each recorded seven shots on goal… Giroux now has 19 shots on the season, which is tied with three other players for second most in the league behind Steven Stamkos (23), pending the end of tonight’s games.
* The Flyers reached the fourth game of the season without a win for the first time since the 2008-09 season, when they started 0-3-1… The longest the Flyers have gone into a season without a win is six games, which came in 1999-2000 when they started 0-5-1 before recovering to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.
* Midway through the second period, Grossmann went down in the corner with Ducks’ Ryan Kesler in pursuit. Play was called dead and Flyers trainer Jim McCrossin tended to Grossman who skated off under his own power. Grossmann returned to the game shortly after and appeared in an overall 18:22 of ice-time.
* The Flyers had five players record more than 20 minutes of ice time in tonight’s game (B. Schenn, Couturier, Giroux, Streit & MacDonald).
POSTGAME RECAP
PHILADELPHIA — William Karlsson scored the game-deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout to give the Anaheim Ducks a 4-3 win against the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.
Jakob Silverberg also scored for the Ducks in the shootout, and goaltender Frederik Andersen stopped three of four Flyers shooters.
The win allows the Ducks to return home with wins in the final three games of their season-opening four-game road trip.
Tim Jackman, Devante Smith-Pelly and Matt Beleskey scored in regulation for the Ducks, and Andersen made 39 saves in regulation and overtime in his third straight start.
Claude Giroux scored the Flyers’ only goal in the shootout. It’s the second straight shootout loss for the Flyers; they lost 4-3 to the Montreal Canadiens in the tiebreaker Saturday.
Wayne Simmonds had a goal and an assist, and Mark Streit and Jakub Voracek had goals for Philadelphia. GoaltenderSteve Mason made 25 saves.
Voracek’s goal with 5:20 left in the third period forced overtime. A strong effort by the line of Giroux, Voracek and Michael Raffl had the Ducks pinned deep in their end. When Andrew Cogliano tried to clear, Michael Del Zotto held the puck in and spun it deep to Voracek behind the Anaheim net. Voracek skated out to the left side and backhanded a puck to the far side, over Andersen’s glove.
After Philadelphia came back from a 2-0 deficit to tie the game in the second period, Beleskey gave the Ducks a 3-2 lead with 16.7 seconds left in the second. He carried the puck into the Philadelphia zone along the right side and dropped a pass for Ryan Getzlaf. The Anaheim captain lost the puck but regained it along the wall. He spun away from Flyers forward Matt Read and spotted Beleskey cutting to the net behind the Flyers’ Nick Schultz and Sean Couturier and found him for an open look in front. Beleskey made one deke and lifted the puck over lunging Mason.
The Flyers took advantage of three Ducks second-period penalties to get back into the game. Streit started the run with a 5-on-3 goal at 12:43 of the second when his one-timer beat Andersen inside the right post. Two minutes later, with Ducks defenseman Hampus Lindholm off for interference, Simmonds got into the crease to get the final whack on a bouncing puck that got behind Andersen.
The goal was Simmonds’ fifth of the season and extended his goal-scoring streak to three games.
The Ducks, playing the second half of a back-to-back after beating the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 on Monday, opened the scoring on Jackman’s first goal of the season at 12:20 of the first period. Mason stopped Francois Beauchemin’s point shot and tried to clear the rebound, but Jackman beat Flyers center Blair Jones to the loose puck and lifted it over Mason.
Smith-Pelly made it 2-0 with a power-play goal when he tipped a Lindholm shot past Mason at 16:53.
The Ducks open a five-game homestand Friday against the Minnesota Wild.
The loss dropped the Flyers to 0-2-2. It’s the fourth time the Flyers have gone without a win in their first four games of a season, the last in 2008-09. They start a three-game road trip Saturday at the Dallas Stars.
