Travis Konecny scored two breakaway targets, together with a short-handed tally that proved to be the game-winner, because the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a six-game shedding streak with a 2-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Monday in Las Vegas.
It was the thirtieth multigoal sport of Konecny’s profession and the primary of the season.
Philadelphia goalie Samuel Ersson made 24 saves to select up his first win since Dec. 23 at Chicago, ending a private 0-4-0 stretch. The Flyers entered the competition having been outscored 31-12 throughout their 0-5-1 run.
Tomas Hertl scored for Vegas, which had a season-best seven-game win streak and an eight-game level streak (7-0-1) snapped. Adin Hill completed with 15 saves for the Golden Knights.
Konecny put the Flyers in entrance 2-1 at 7:22 of the third interval together with his eleventh profession short-handed objective. He intercepted Jack Eichel’s no-look drop move close to the appropriate boards, then broke in and ripped a wrist shot previous Hill’s blocker facet.
The Golden Knights had a 6-on-4 edge for the ultimate 1:33 after Owen Tippett picked up a delay-of-game penalty and Hill was pulled for an additional attacker. Nonetheless, Ersson made three saves and Pavel Dorofeyev rang a shot off the left put up because the horn sounded to finish the sport.
Philadelphia, regardless of being outshot 11-4, ended the primary interval with a 1-0 lead because of a breakaway objective. Konecny intercepted a move by Hertl for defenseman Kaedan Korczak alongside the blue line within the Vegas zone after which beat Hill with a wrist shot into the highest proper nook.
Vegas tied it on the 19:28 mark of the second interval on a power-play objective by Hertl. Eichel bought the first help, whipping a move from the left circle into the low slot, the place Hertl redirected the puck over Ersson’s left shoulder.
It was the twentieth objective of the season for Hertl, marking the seventh time in his profession he reached that mark.
Mark Stone had an help on Hertl’s objective to increase his level streak to 12 video games, tying Eichel’s staff file set in 2023-24.
–Subject Degree Media
