Morgan Frost scored the decisive objective within the 5th spherical of a shootout because the visiting Philadelphia Flyers received their season opener, beating the Vancouver Canucks 3-2 on Friday.
Tyson Foerster and Cam York scored in legislation for the Flyers, who’re starting the season with a four-game western street shuttle. Goaltender Samuel Ersson made 24 saves in legislation and stopped 3 Canucks makes an attempt within the shootout. Every other Vancouver shooter overlooked the objective within the tiebreaker.
Nils Hoglander and Teddy Blueger scored and Kevin Lankinen made 30 stops in legislation for the Canucks, who had been taking part in the second one contest of a two-game homestand to start out the season. They fell 6-5 in extra time to the Calgary Flames on Wednesday.
Till Frost’s winner, the one gamers who scored within the shootout had been Vancouver’s Jake DeBrusk and Philadelphia’s Travis Konecny, each and every within the 3rd spherical.
The Canucks misplaced one among their best defenseman, Tyler Myers, who used to be injured on his first shift of the sport when he collided alongside the forums with the Flyers’ Joel Farabee. The Canucks introduced in the second one duration that Myers would now not go back, however no main points of his situation got.
Hoglander opened the scoring at 12:55 of the primary duration after taking a cross from Conor Garland, who intercepted an errant Flyers breakout cross earlier than feeding Hoglander.
Foerster scored the Flyers’ first objective of the season on an influence play to tie it 1-1 overdue within the first duration. He redirected the puck in shut off a brief cross from Farabee.
Blueger gave Vancouver a 2-1 lead at 11:25 of the second one duration. He outraced Flyers rookie heart Jeff Luchanko to the entrance of the web, the place he tipped in a shot from teammate Derek Forbort.
York scored 2:48 into the 3rd duration to tie it 2-2 on a shot that ricocheted out and in of the web so briefly that the officers to start with overlooked it. The puck hit the a long way put up, then deflected off the interior heart bar and briefly popped out. Play persisted for 15 seconds earlier than the horn sounded and the officers had been notified through video overview that it used to be a just right objective.
Vancouver paid homage previous to the sport to former defenseman Alexander Edler, who signed a one-day contract so he may retire as a Canuck on Friday.
The Canucks devoted cheered as a video tribute used to be performed for Edler, who performed 15 years with Vancouver and is their all-time chief for defensemen in objectives (99) and issues (409). Edler waved and thanked the group earlier than being joined at the ice through his circle of relatives for the ceremonial losing of the puck.
–Box Stage Media
