Myers lifts Flyers with goal in OT
Philippe Myers scored 2:40 into overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 victory over the New York Islanders 4-3 on Wednesday in Toronto, tying the secondround playoff series at a game apiece.
The Islanders had overcome a 3-0 first-period deficit, with Jean-Gabriel Pageau getting the tying goal with 2:09 left in regulation.
Myers ended it quickly, connecting on a shot from the right point that glanced off the stick of the Islanders’ Anders Lee on the way in.
Kevin Hayes scored twice in the first period for Philadelphia, Sean Couturier also had a goal, and Carter Hart made 31 saves.
Lee and Anthony Beauvillier also scored for the Islanders. Semyon Varlamov had seven saves before he was benched late in the first period. Thomas Greiss finished with 20 stops the rest of the way.
The Flyers scored three times in the first 15:09, chasing Varlamov. He had shut them out in Game 1 and built an Islanders playoff-record scoreless streak of 138:17 before Philadelphia broke through in the first period.
Lightning 7, Bruins 1: Ondrej Palat, Mikhail Sergachez and Alex Killorn scored power-play goals to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning to a 7-1 rout of the Boston Bruins in Game 3 of their second-round NHL playoff series.
Killorn added a second goal and Yanni Gourde, Brayden Point and Nikita Kucherov scored for the Lightning, which won in Toronto for the second straight night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven matchup.
Kucherov assisted on all three power-play goals as the Lightning ended an 0for-16 drought in man-advantage situations that began in Game 1 of Tampa Bay’s first-round victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Brad Marchand had his fourth goal of the series for Boston, scoring on the power play in the second period. But by then, the Bruins trailed 3-0. Palat and Gourde scored within a 15second span of the opening period.
Avalanche 6, Stars 4: Six players scored for Colorado, which took a 2-1 series lead.