The Philadelphia Flyers' season ended with a 3-2 overtime loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. Tyson Foerster and Alex Bump scored for the Flyers, while Jackson Blake and Logan Stankoven scored for the Hurricanes.
Key points
Flyers lost 3-2 to Hurricanes in overtime
Season ended for the Philadelphia Flyers
Tyson Foerster and Alex Bump scored for Flyers
Jackson Blake and Logan Stankoven scored for Hurricanes
Game played at Xfinity Mobile Arena
Philadelphia FlyersCarolina HurricanesTyson FoersterAlex Bump
PHILADELPHIA â The Philadelphia Flyersâ season came to an end after falling 3-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes in overtime on Saturday at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
The Flyers got off to another strong start with a dominant first period. Their best line of the early going was rewarded with a goal early on. There were plenty of penalties to go around, but each teamâs penalty kill kept it a 1-0 game going into the first intermission.
The Hurricanes woke up in the second period, starting to put heavy pressure on Philadelphia. They were generating chances and wearing down the Flyersâ defense. The Hurricanes got on the board in the following moments after a Flyers penalty kill. As the seconds ticked off the clock in the middle frame, the game began to get a little chaotic. However, nobody scored in the chaos, making it a tie game after two periods.
The third period opened a do-or-die 20 minutes for the Flyers with the season on the line. Early on, the Hurricanes put the pressure on the Flyers with a score. Quickly, the Flyers answered the call and tied it up before the game got out of hand. The Hurricanes outchanced the Flyers in the period, but they did not quit, forcing the game to overtime.
Overtime did not last long, as the Hurricanes got a lucky bounce to end the series with a sweep.
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Flyers take the early lead
Game 4 got off to a similar start to Game 3. The Flyers looked strong early on, generating chances and testing Frederik Andersen early.
The Trevor Zegras line with Tyson Foerster and Porter Martone got off to a hot start, getting a dominant shift with 4+ good chances, 3 of which from Martone. However, Andersen was up to the task.
Play settled in a bit, and the Hurricanes had a few good shifts themselves, but the Zegras line came through in the first period. It started with a little flip into the zone by Martone (3), chased by Zegras (4), who made a slick pass to hit Tyson Foerster (1) streaking into the slot for the goal.
With 7:50 off the clock in the game, the Flyers had a 1-0 lead. The building was as loud as it was in the first round again.
Just under 4 minutes later, the Hurricanes got a good chance to quiet the momentum the Flyers were building after Porter Martone got called for hooking. The penalty kill got the job done. A few moments later, Jordan Martinook was called for interference, giving the Flyers a shot on the power play.
Philly did not score, but it looked pretty good as far as the standards go for the power play.
As the period went on, the game began to shift in the Flyersâ favor. They started to take hold of the game, but could not add another. The Flyers took the 1-0 lead into the first intermission.
The Flyers started strong in the second period, too, but so did the Hurricanes. Carolina started to apply pressure and generated a couple of really great chances, but could not convert.
Just under 4 minutes into the period, the Hurricanes had the Flyers hemmed in the defensive zone, leading to a long shift. That led to a tired Sean Couturier taking a hooking penalty. It was a big opportunity for the Hurricanes, but Philly got the kill.
A few seconds over a minute after the kill, the Flyers were on the power play after Jordan Staal was called for tripping. The Flyers were struggling to get past the Hurricanesâ wall at the blueline, but once they finally did, Denver Barkey drew a hook from Sebastian Aho, giving 40 seconds of 5-on-3.
Carolina had a really good effort on the kill, and that was followed by a Rasmus Ristolainen interference penalty. So, there were 22 seconds of 4-on-4 followed by a Hurricanesâ power play. Once again, the penalty kill held strong.
However, the Hurricanes still struck.
13 seconds after the kill, Jackson Blake (3) ripped a shot from the right-side boards and snuck it far side past Dan Vladar.
In the aftermath of the goal, it looked like Mark Jankowski made it a 2-1 game for Carolina, but William Carrier made contact with Vladar, nullifying the goal for goaltender interference. So the game remained tied at 1.
The game started to slip a little on both ends as both teams got a little sloppy as the period wound down. Andersen made a great save to rob Garnet Hathaway. The Flyers got a gift minutes later when Jankowski missed an empty net.
It got a little hectic as the seconds ticked off the middle frame, but the game went into the second intermission all square at 1.
Each team scores in the third
So, the game entered a do-or-die third period for the Flyers, tied at 1. In the opening minutes of the third period, the slopiness on both sides from the end of the second period carried over.
The Hurricanes put the pressure on the Flyers within the first 5 minutes. Jackson Blake (7) and Taylor Hall (8) sprang a rush. Hall beat Oliver Bonk to the red line with the puck before sending a crossing pass to Logan Stankoven (7), who buried the go-ahead goal. Alex Bump was on Stankoven but got caught behind the play in the neutral zone.
So now the Flyers were trailing by a score with a little more than 15 minutes to play for their season.
Alex Bump (2) made up for his mistake, ripping the equalizer from the slot, tying the game at 2. The goal does not happen without Travis Konecnyâs (4) forecheck and a great pass from behind the net.
Over the next 10 minutes, the Hurricanes continued to outchance the Flyers, but Philly showed no quit.
With the shots 36-15 in favor of the Hurricanes, the game went into the third intermission tied at 2.
Sudden death for the Flyersâ season ends in heartbreak
It became a sudden death for the season.
The early advantage in the overtime period went to the Hurricanes, much like it did in Game 2.
Then, with just a few ticks over 5 minutes gone in the period, Jackson Blake (4) ended the Flyersâ season.
Whatâs next
With the Game 4 loss, the Flyersâ season has come to an end.