Trevor Zegras recorded two goals and an assist in regulation before netting a key shootout tally as the host Philadelphia Flyers nipped the New York Islanders 4-3 on Saturday afternoon.
Christian Dvorak chipped in a goal and an assist for the Flyers, while Matvei Michkov had the decisive shootout goal. Samuel Ersson made 23 saves for Philadelphia, including a dazzling stop on Bo Horvat on a point-blank chance in overtime.
Simon Holmstrom, Anthony Duclair and Maxim Tsyplakov were the regulation goal scorers for New York. Ilya Sorokin stopped 23 shots for the Islanders, who had won their previous four games.
After the opening shooter for both teams failed in the shootout, Zegras scored low to the stick side and Holmstrom responded with a beautiful goal off a heavy deke. Michkov answered with a wrister inside the left post, and Ersson stopped Duclair to seal the win.
Holmstrom opened the scoring with a short-handed goal midway through the first period. He got a step on the defense and Jean-Gabriel Pageau found him for a perfectly placed wrister.
Duclair made it 2-0 early in the second period, as Marshall Warren sent a cross-ice pass to the doorstep, where Duclair rammed it home. The goal was Duclair’s second of the season, and the point was Warren’s first in the NHL.
Philadelphia responded about four minutes later, capitalizing on a beautiful play by two first-year Flyers. Zegras made a crisp pass in front to Dvorak, who lifted a backhander past a helpless Sorokin.
Early in the third period, Zegras tied at 2-2 with a wrister from the right circle. However, Tsyplakov put the visitors back in front several minutes later on a last-second deflection of a shot by Warren.
The Flyers tied it again, this time on the power play, about three minutes later. With several players whacking at the puck on a scramble in front of the net, Zegras finally punched it home to create a 3-3 deadlock.
–Field Level Media
