Flyers booed off ice during loss to Sharks
PHILADELPHIA — Joe Thornton scored the go-ahead goal late in the first period and the San Jose Sharks extended the Philadelphia Flyers’ longest losing streak in nearly 10 years to nine games with a 3-1 victory Tuesday night.
Chris Tierney and Marc-Edouard Vlasic also scored and Logan Couture had two assists for the Sharks, who kicked off a four-game trip with their second straight win.
Claude Giroux scored 48 seconds in before the Flyers were blanked the rest of the way by backup Aaron Dell, who made 22 saves.
The Flyers are 0-4-5 since their last win, Nov. 9 against Chicago. It’s the longest skid since an 0-8-2 stretch in February 2008.
The home crowd let the Flyers have it, booing the team off the ice after the second period and intermittently in the third. There were also “Fire Hakstol” chants by some fans in the upper deck. Coach Dave Hakstol mixed up some lines but was unable to halt the worst stretch of his three seasons in charge.
Calvin de Haan and Jordan Eberle scored goals one minute apart in the first period to spark New York to a home win over Vancouver. Andrew Ladd, Anders Lee and John Tavares also scored goals for New York. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 34 saves in his second shutout this season, and Tampa Bay ended a two-game skid with a road victory over Buffalo. Defenseman Dan Girardi and rookie Mikhail Sergachev had goals for the Lightning in the third of a four-game trip. Vasilevskiy leads the NHL with 16 wins and has six career shutouts in 101 starts. Denis Malgin scored with 1:09 left and Florida recovered after giving up two three-goal leads to beat New York on the road. Jonathan Huberdeau had a goal and an assist, and Aleksander Barkov, Jamie McGinn and Micheal Haley also scored for Florida. On the winning goal, Malgin fired a shot from the inside edge of the left circle to beat Rangers goalie Ondrej Pavelec for his first of the season. Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar scored 2:10 apart late in the second period to put Los Angeles ahead and it went on to beat Detroit on the road. Jonathan Quick made 23 saves, including some spectacular stops in the second period that kept the Kings within a goal.
Pekka Rinne made 37 saves to lead Nashville to a home win over Chicago. Filip Forsberg, Austin Watson and Roman Josi scored goals for the Predators, who have won 10 of 12. Tommy Wingels and Lance Bouma had the goals for Chicago. Nazem Kadri scored his 12th goal of the season and visiting Toronto cruised past Calgary. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored the game-winner in overtime after Matthew Benning knotted the game at 2-2 in the third period to give Edmonton a home win.
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray is out indefinitely with a lower-body injury. The team placed Murray on injured reserve on Tuesday, meaning he will be out at least seven days.