Dan Vladar made 17 saves and Travis Konecny had a goal and an assist to guide the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 home victory over the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday.
Christian Dvorak, Carl Grundstrom and Noah Cates also scored for Philadelphia, which has won five of its last seven games. Vladar’s highlights included a stop on Will Smith’s breakaway in the first period and a key save against Ty Dellandrea in the third.
Collin Graf scored in a third straight game for San Jose, which was not able to carry any momentum from Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The Sharks have not won back-to-back games since Nov. 18 and Nov. 20.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 26 saves for San Jose.
Graf opened the scoring midway through the first period off a nice passing sequence. Smith found John Klingberg, who whipped it across the ice to Graf for a tic-tac-toe goal.
Philadelphia tied it late in the period when Konecny’s high flip out of the defensive zone caromed off the shoulder of teammate Trevor Zegras and unleashed Dvorak on a breakaway. Dvorak shifted to his backhand and beat Nedeljkovic.
Konecny’s assist on the play was his 500th career NHL point in his 10th season.
The Flyers scored twice in the second period, beginning with Grundstrom’s first goal of the season in just his second game with the team. Grundstrom got a piece of Nick Seeler’s shot from the left point to make it 2-1 with 3:20 gone in the session.
Grundstrom played for the Sharks last season, scoring three goals and totaling nine points in 56 games. He had not scored since April 9.
Cates made it 3-1 with 12 seconds to play in the second period, solving Nedeljkovic with a wrister from the left circle.
The Flyers killed off a penalty late in the third period before Konecny’s empty-netter with 1:43 remaining sealed the outcome.
–Field Level Media
