The Philadelphia Flyers will not have to attend lengthy to attempt to actual revenge on Morgan Rielly and the Toronto Maple Leafs.
After shedding to Toronto within the finale of their six-game highway journey, Philadelphia hosts the Maple Leafs on Tuesday.
The Flyers spent practically two weeks away from house, touring to the West Coast earlier than stopping in Toronto on the best way again. They ended up going 2-3-1 on the trek, with the lone time beyond regulation loss coming in Sunday’s 3-2 defeat to the Maple Leafs.
Rielly scored the decisive tally on Sunday, taking a feed from Auston Matthews and beating Ivan Fedotov halfway via time beyond regulation.
“It feels good,” stated Rielly, who had not scored since Nov. 5. “I assumed we performed properly inside the construction and it was an in depth sport. Clearly we have been in numerous these just lately, which I believe is sweet, so to get the outcomes is sweet.”
Certainly, the Maple Leafs have performed 4 consecutive video games determined by two objectives or fewer and have gained all 4. Matthew Knies and Oliver Ekman-Larsson additionally scored on Sunday, whereas Matthews registered two assists and Dennis Hildeby made 30 saves.
“I assumed it was a gutsy win,” Toronto coach Craig Berube stated. “I assumed that Philly is difficult to play in opposition to. They’re fast, they’re quick, they play laborious they usually had legs, so it was a tough sport for us.”
Tyson Foerster and Scott Laughton scored for the Flyers, whereas Rasmus Ristolainen registered a pair of assists.
Fedotov made 22 saves for Philadelphia, which continues to play with out beginning netminder Samuel Ersson (lower-body damage). In his absence, Flyers coach John Tortorella sometimes toggles between Fedotov and Aleksei Kolosov.
“Apart from the primary interval in pockets after we turned the puck over somewhat bit, I assumed it was one in all our higher video games taking part in ahead, checking time and house,” Tortorella stated. “I assumed it was one in all our higher video games.”
To disclaim the Maple Leafs a fifth straight win, Philadelphia must punch again in a sequence just lately dominated by Toronto, which has gained 9 of the final 10 conferences.
After all, that will not be straightforward in opposition to a gifted Maple Leafs workforce that sits on the prime of the Atlantic Division with 54 factors. The Flyers hope to sooner or later develop the kind of top-end expertise that Toronto at present has within the type of Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares.
All 4 of these gamers are averaging at the least some extent a sport for the Maple Leafs. The Flyers solely have one such participant in Travis Konecny (43 factors in 40 video games), though even Konecny has been restricted to 2 objectives and no assists during the last 5 contests.
“One other good one in opposition to a extremely expert workforce,” Laughton stated of Tuesday’s conflict with Toronto. “We shut down the center of the ice for essentially the most half within the impartial zone and restricted their possibilities. They get the final one there, however we get them once more (in Philadelphia) and can attempt to do the identical factor and get another than them.”
–Subject Degree Media