Kolosov makes NHL debut, doesn’t get much help as Flyers fall to 2-6-1 originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Aleksei Kolosov couldn’t save the Flyers from their up-and-down play.
John Tortorella’s club wasn’t sharp or connected at all and had to play far too much defense in a 4-3 loss Sunday night to the Canadiens at the Wells Fargo Center.
Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny provided the Flyers’ goals.
Sanheim’s first marker sent the game into first intermission tied at 1-1. Then, with the Flyers down 4-1 and under two and a half minutes remaining in the game, Sanheim and Konecny struck to make it interesting.
“This year is the year that the players that got better last year, the youth, need to get better even more this year,” Tortorella said. “And we’re kind of stuck. It surprises me a little bit, yeah, but it is what it is. The game’s funny, the game’s funny, you never where it’s going to take you.
“I just want us to not try to fix everything. You start getting into a panic mode when you’re losing some games. We just need to calm ourselves down and the biggest thing is to be together up the ice, be together coming back into our end zone and play as a group.”
The Flyers (2-6-1) have yet to win consecutive games this season. They missed out on an opportunity to sweep their back-to-back set in Philadelphia this weekend. They snapped a six-game skid Saturday afternoon with a 7-5 win over the Wild.
But they couldn’t build on it.
“No one coming, no one to dig us out of this, it’s the guys in the room,” Scott Laughton said. “We’ve got to figure this out quick. Maybe not the best time for it to happen, but it’s happening right now. We’ve got a lot of runway left, but we’ve got to figure it out.”
The Flyers have given up four or more goals in seven of their nine games and are surrendering 4.44 per game.
“We’re just not working as a group,” Sanheim said. “Last year, the reason we were so successful was it was five-man units, one after another, every line. We had an identity, we were working hard. Other teams knew that. Maybe I guess that’s part of it, is teams are aware of our success that we had last year in doing that.
“We just need to put our heads down, go to work, get to the dirty areas. Last year, we were throwing pucks from awkward angles and getting those extra rebounds. We’re just not seeing that right now. It’s something that we’ve got to change pretty quickly because the way we’re going, it’s not a good path.”
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