Flyers lose 18 seconds into OT, but come home with plenty of progress originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
As the puck trickled off of Samuel Ersson‘s leg pad and sat there for Filip Forsberg to tap home, the Flyers just narrowly missed out on a sweep of their three-game road trip.
They were handed a 3-2 overtime loss Tuesday night to the Predators at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Flyers’ comeback attempt was thwarted by the Predators when Forsberg followed up his own shot and scored the winner only 18 seconds into OT.
Sean Couturier and Travis Sanheim scored goals to erase the Flyers’ 2-0 deficit.
John Tortorella’s club went 2-0-1 on the trip and outscored its opponents 11-6.
While the Flyers (15-10-3) grabbed a point Tuesday night, they also missed out on an opportunity to match their season-best winning streak of five games. However, they’ve earned at least a point in seven of their last eight games (5-1-2).
On the season, the Flyers are 4-3 after regulation and 4-4-3 in games decided by one goal.
They see the Predators (16-13-0) again in nine days when the clubs wrap up their two-game regular-season series at the Wells Fargo Center.
• Overall, a very good road trip for the Flyers.
When Gustav Nyquist gave Nashville a 1-0 lead on a redirection 9:42 minutes into the game, it marked the first time the Flyers had trailed at all on the trip.
After picking up wins over the Penguins in the shootout and overtime, the Flyers got better. To open the trip, they beat both the Coyotes and Avalanche somewhat convincingly, games that were close to complete efforts from the Flyers.
Despite losing in OT to finish the trip, Tortorella’s club should come home feeling pretty good about itself. The Flyers could see some decent crowds at the Wells Fargo Center the rest of this week.
• Ersson faced 22 shots from the Predators and stopped 19 of them.
He came in 5-1-0 with a 1.79 goals-against average and .930 save percentage over his previous six starts.
Forsberg’s OT winner was a tough one. It appeared as if the Flyers thought the play was going to be whistled dead. But the puck was still loose as Ersson couldn’t quite swallow it up. Forsberg alertly pounced on it for the winner.
The Flyers controlled play for a good portion of the game and they also blocked 23 shots.
Nashville netminder Juuse Saros was excellent, denying 37 of the Flyers’ 39 shots.
Couturier and Travis Konecny assisted Sanheim’s game-tying goal 6:49 minutes into the third period.
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