Flyers snap losing streak, beat Flames
Scott Laughton scored twice and Brian Elliott made 43 saves as the Philadelphia Flyers snapped a 10game losing streak Monday night with a 5-2 win over the Calgary Flames.
Calgary held a wide edge in play, outshooting Philadelphia 45-21, but the opportunistic Flyers scored three times in a 1:11 span of the second period to break open a 1-all game.
Valtteri Filppula, Michael Raffl and Wayne Simmonds also scored for Philadelphia (9-11-7), and Jakub Voracek had three assists. The Flyers have points in six of their last 11 games as five of the losses during their skid came in overtime.
Troy Brouwer, with his first of the season, and Sean Monahan scored for Calgary (14-12-1). The Flames lost three of four on their homestand and now head out East for games on back-to-back nights in Toronto and Montreal starting Wednesday.
Mike Smith made 16 saves in defeat.
A key moment came early in the second when a misplayed puck by Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov enabled Johnny Gaudreau to race off on a breakaway. Elliott stopped the dangerous Flames winger with a sharp glove save, then stopped four more shots on the ensuing power play after defenseman Andrew MacDonald was whistled for hooking Gaudreau.
It was right after that penalty kill that the Flyers took the lead for good. ISLANDERS 5, PANTHERS 4 >> Mathew Barzal scored the winning goal in a shootout to lift New York over Florida after Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo was injured in the second period.
New York’s Anders Lee scored his 100th career goal. John Tavares, Brock Nelson and Thomas Hickey also scored in regulation for the Islanders. Jaroslav Halak made 39 saves and stopped all three attempts in the shootout. PREDATORS 5, BRUINS 3 >> Craig Smith scored twice and added an assist to lead Nashville over Boston.
Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist, and Nick Bonino and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, which has won three of four. Pekka Rinne made 36 saves. Charlie McAvoy, Zdeno Chara and David Pastrnak had the goals for Boston, which won its previous two games.