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Coming into Tuesday night’s match up, the Flyers had one goal on their mind and that was to beat the flamming hot Flames, which they did in overtime to get over the hump with a 2-1 victory on Hall of Fame night.

In the first period, Oliver Kylington got it going for the Flames which was a nasty snap shot that fired past Carter Hart to make it 1-0. The Flames looked really good throughout the opening period.

In the second period, the Flyers trickled back with a very good opportunity to tie the game up at one as Kevin Hayes scored his first goal of the season to tie the game at one. Following goal he pointed to the sky for his late brother Jimmy Hayes, “I’m happy it happened sooner rather than later honestly,” Kevin Hayes. “It was a big goal, trainers got the puck for me, I’m going to give it to Jimmy’s kid, Jimmy’s son Beau and it’ll be one I remember for forever.”

“I think you could see it on my face. I think everything happens for a reason. I was the first guy to hug him. Got the puck for Kev, you know it’s a big goal, not one for our team but for Kev and like he said, we’ll all remember this for forever, a long long time. It was special.” – Cam Atkinson

In the 3rd period, it was all quiet as both sides were locked in and had trouble finding good findings around the goal to take the lead which made things challenging for both sides. The Flyers definitely played better the last 40 minutes to even out the play.

Neither team could defeat the goaltending duel through three periods, so it went in to overtime in South Philadelphia with Flyers fans eager for a win and just 45 seconds in to the overtime, the Flyers got the win as Cam Atkinson pounced on Sean Couturier’s rebound, and deposited the puck for a game winner.

The Flyers are now 8-4-2 on the season thanks in large part to stellar goaltending from Carter Hart. Hart finish the game with 33 saves on 34 shots, which is good enough for a .971 Save Percentage.

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NEXT UP: The Flyers will host 8-3-3 Tampa Bay Lightening on Thursday with puck drop slated for 7 PM EST and can be seen on ESPN+ and NBC Sports Philadelphia.

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On Saturday night, the 5-0 Florida Panthers came to town. The action started three minutes into the opening period when Jonathan Huberdeau beat Carter Hart to make it 1-0 Panthers.

In the second period, Claude Giroux beat former Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrobsky with a slap shot to tie the game up at one a piece. The second goal came short-handed and on a breakaway from Cam Atkinson to put the Flyers up by one. This was actually the earliest the Flyers have scored a short-handed goal in a season since 2011.

With less than a minute left in the second period the Panthers got a goal by Owen Tippett to knot the score at two. Twelve minutes into the final period Jonathan Huberdeau struck again and made the score 3-2 Panthers. Then with a minute Sam Reinhart put the game to bed with an empty netter, which made the score 4-2 Panthers.

“It was a pretty good test for us to see where we stand. They’re obviously rolling pretty good right now, but that game was there for us to win.” – Claude Giroux

The Flyers look to bounce next on Wednesday October 27th at 10pm eastern against Edmonton on TNT and NBC Sports Philadelphia. In addition, the Flyers have a complete day off today, and will resume practice on Monday at 1130am in Voorhees.

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The lights shined bright in south Philly early Friday evening as hockey was back in Philly. In the first period the Flyers looked good offensively, and just a little over six minutes into the first period. Joel Farabee shot the puck which deflected off Ryan Ellis and into the net to make the score 1-0 Flyers. Overall, the Flyers had a impressive fourteen shots on goal to Vancouver’s five shots on goal.

In the second period, it was the exact opposite of the first period for the Flyers. Vancouver came out with authority, and scored four goals in the period. The first of which came just two minutes into the period when Vasily Podkolzin shot a wrist shot from the right side by the face off circle to tie it up at one a piece. Moments later, Elias Pettersson wristed another shot on a power play past Carter Hart to make it 2-1 in favor of the Canucks. A few minutes later Vancouver struck again with a goal by Alex Chiasson to make it 3-1 that was also a wrist shot on a power play. Three minutes later the Flyers answered back as Cam Atkinson scored his first as a Flyer (Joel Farabee and Keith Yandle with assists). Unfortunately, the Canucks were not done, towards the end of the second period they scored once again as JT Miller blasted a puck past Hart for the 4-2 lead, as both teams headed for the showers for the intermission.

With just three minutes left in the third period the Flyers were gifted a power play. Travis Konecny’s wrist shot went past Vancouver goalie Thatcher Demko to cut the Vancouver lead to just one. One minute later Claude Giroux’s blasted a shot, and the puck found the back of the net which tied the game up at four.

“It was great. That was one of the best goals I’ve scored. The guys and fans were excited.” – Claude Giroux on the fans if Philadelphia

In overtime both teams could not muster anything past ether goalie, so they went to the elusive shootout. First up for Vancouver was Elias Pettersson who beat Carter Hart to score the first shootout goal. The Flyers blew two opportunities in the shoot out. The game winning goal was scored by J.T Miller to give Vancouver a 5-4 shoot out win.

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NEXT UP: Seattle Kraken on Monday October 18th at 7pm at the Wells Fargo Center. The game can be seen on NBS Sports Philadelphia and ESPN plus.