van Riemsdyk, Hart lead Flyers to shootout win over Oilers
James van Riemsdyk and Morgan Frost scored in the shootout, Carter Hart made 34 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Thursday night.
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James van Riemsdyk and Morgan Frost scored in the shootout, Carter Hart made 34 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Thursday night.
Nicolas Deslauriers scored his third goal for the Flyers.
Flyers: Host New York Islanders on Monday, Feb. 6.
Noah Cates scored for Philadelphia, which has lost five of seven.
James van Riemsdyk, Wade Allison and Rasmus Ristolainen scored for the Flyers.
Flyers: Host Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
Flyers: Philadelphia returns home to face the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night.
The Blackhawks won for the first time in the regular season in Philadelphia in more than 26 years with a 4-1 victory over the Flyers.
Philadelphia Flyers coach John Tortorella is defending Ivan Provorov's decision to cite religious beliefs as his reason to boycott the team's pregame Pride celebration.
A Pride Night celebration was overshadowed after Provorov refused to wear rainbow jerseys during warmups.
Provorov was absent from warmups when the Flyers wore Pride-theme jerseys and used sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape.
The Flyers lost for just the second time in nine games.
Flyers: Visit the Boston Bruins on Monday.
Travis Konecny had a hat trick, and Owen Tippett and Scott Laughton also scored to lead the surging Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-3 win over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.
Joel Farabee had two points and Samuel Ersson made 28 saves to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-0 win over the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night.
