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Owen Tippett scored twice in the Flyers' 5-2 win over the Kraken Monday night. He looks good. He looks a lot like the power forward who was scraping up against 30 goals again.
Tippett gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 19:38 of the first period. Travis Konecny 's shot from the left side bounced off a stanchion behind the net and right to Tippett, who was alone in front of Andersen.
Linus Ullmark made 22 saves after allowing a goal on Philadelphia's first shot and the Ottawa Senators rallied to beat the Flyers 2-1 on Thursday night. Tyson Foerster beat Ullmark 29 seconds for Philadelphia's only goal. Late in the game, Ullmark stopped Travis Konecny's slap shot.
The Flyers got a solid performance from their new goalie, but they couldn’t generate much offense in a season-opening 2-1 loss to the Panthers.
Jett Luchanko, Nikita Grebenkin, and Adam Ginning are all rookies who made the Flyers opening night roster, with varying levels of success.
But another luxury that Tocchet has that could buy him and the Flyers more time to figure the offensive part out — other than the Cates line — is goaltender Dan Vladar, who stopped 15 of 16 shots on Saturday in improving to 2-1-0. Vladar has a .934 save percentage and 1.65 goals-against average, and seems to be emerging as the No. 1.
Philadelphia Flyers head coach Rick Tochhet benched Matvei Michkov for the third time in five games during their overtime win against the Minnesota Wild on Saturday.
On Thursday night, the Flyers fell to 0-2-1 away from the friendly confines of Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia after a 2-1 loss to the Ottawa Senators at Canadian Tire Centre in Kanata, Ontario.