Flyers rally in 3rd period to beat Coyotes, win 4th straight originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Flyers picked up their fourth third-period comeback with a 5-3 win Monday night over the Coyotes at the Wells Fargo Center.
Scott Laughton scored the game-winner on a wraparound with 9:39 minutes left in the game. He was excellent all night and played through some bruises.
A little over four minutes before Laughton gave the Flyers the lead, Jamie Drysdale tied it at 3-3 by making a great play with his skating ability
Morgan Frost, Travis Konecny and Owen Tippett (empty-netter) also scored for the Flyers (29-19-6), who have won four straight after going into the extended break on a season-worst five-game skid.
John Tortorella’s club went 3-0-0 on its three-game homestand. The Flyers entered the homestand 11-12-2 at the Wells Fargo Center. They really needed to start playing better at home and did so here.
The Flyers swept their two-game regular-season series with the Coyotes (23-24-4). They beat Arizona, 4-1, at Mullett Arena in December.
• The Flyers were not perfect Monday night but found a way.
Tortorella said the Flyers know their identity. It’s a matter of showing it consistently.
“It’s the only question that I’ll have the rest of the year, is can we do it again?” the head coach said at morning skate. “Are we going to be perfect? No, but we know how we have to play. I think that teaching’s done as far as the identity of our team and how we have to play. Can we continue to do it? Can we have our readiness mentally to do it again?
“We’ll have some bumps, we’re going to have some bumps. How do we get out of it and get back to consistently playing the right way? That’s what the story is for the 20-plus games left in the season.”
• Early in the second period, Frost showed a burst of speed to split the Coyotes’ coverage and draw a hooking penalty.
It resulted in a penalty shot and Frost scoring on a nice move to tie the game at 1-1.
“The thing I like about his game is he’s attacking the middle of the ice with the puck more,” Tortorella said at morning skate. “He used to be on the outside a lot. I think he’s taking people on, bringing pucks to the middle of the ice. You bring pucks to the middle of the ice, a lot of different things can happen.”
About a minute and a half later, Frost drew another penalty. But the Flyers’ power play opportunity was wiped out when Travis Sanheim was whistled for high sticking off the faceoff, putting the action at…