Sunrise, Fla. (AP) — Noah Cates scored the go-forward purpose 2:36 into the 3rd interval, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Florida Panthers 2-1 on Tuesday night.
Cates’ objective was his first since Oct. 24, snapping a 22-video game drought for the 25-calendar year-aged forward. He picked up a unfastened puck close to the superior slot, skated in by itself and scored unassisted for what became the video game-winner.
“When you really don’t rating for a while, you come to feel like you by no means will once more,” Cates claimed. “To get on the board and get that self confidence is large for me.”
The Flyers snapped their 5-sport shedding streak in their initially match given that Jan. 27 subsequent the NHL’s All-Star break.
“It’s the way we have to participate in,” Flyers coach John Tortorella said. “The way we’ve been prosperous is checking ahead and not being risk-free. In the initial period, we felt we were being checking but we had been allowing them perform. We did not near anyone out, we didn’t just take any ice away from them, and in the very last two intervals, we performed greater.”
Travis Konecny also scored for Philadelphia, and Samuel Ersson created 20 will save.
Carter Verhaeghe scored for the Panthers. Anthony Stolarz, who got the get started to give All-Star goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky a minor a lot more rest, stopped 23 pictures.
Florida’s four-video game win streak arrived to an conclude, as nicely as Sam Reinhart’s 13-video game place streak, which was tied for the 2nd-longest in franchise heritage.
“I did not like the way we supported the puck,” Florida coach Paul Maurice stated. “I considered we acquired stretched in the match that we did not have to have to. They flipped a good deal of pucks, we could not get a handle on them, we started out to stretch our video game out and we could not crank out anything at all because of it. We looked like we have not been out on the ice in about a 7 days.”
Flyers forward Owen Tippett performed his initial sport in South Florida because the Panthers traded him to Philadelphia in 2022. He also returned to the lineup from a decreased-overall body damage which retained him out of the team’s past 4 games.
Panthers forward Nick Cousins played his to start with game given that Jan. 2 following missing 12 video games whilst in the concussion protocol.
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