Carter Hart made 29 saves, Scott Laughton scored and the Philadelphia Flyers won their third straight with a 3-0 shutout of the Detroit Red Wings.
"Our inability to execute on the power play was the difference tonight," Lalonde said. After a scoreless first period, Philadelphia scored twice in the middle frame to take a 2-0 lead into the second intermission. The Red Wings applied pressure in the third, but a late empty-netter by the Flyers capped a game in which Detroit goalie Alex Nedeljkovic said "pucks just didn't sit right." "Whatever it was tonight, we just couldn't finish," said Nedeljkovic, who stopped 19-of-21 shots in his first NHL start since Dec. 8.
When a team gets seven power plays during a game like the Red Wings did Saturday, you expect some goals coming your way. Make no mistake, the lack of production on the power play was pivotal in a game between two teams playing out the string in a long NHL schedule. "We didn't move it (the puck) around too bad, but we just didn't finish our opportunities," forward Andrew Copp said. The Wings had glorious chances to take control of the game early, with three power plays in the first 10 minutes of the game, including a four-minute power play on Philadelphia's Tony DeAngelo's high-sticking penalty.
No | Player | Pos |
---|---|---|
52 | LW | |
8 | D | |
48 | RW | |
18 | C | |
21 | C | |
3 | D | |
73 | LW | |
14 | C | |
38 | D | |
45 | G | |
35 | G | |
81 | LW | |
71 | C | |
28 | D | |
22 | RW | |
2 | D | |
39 | G | |
82 | D | |
57 | LW | |
43 | D | |
27 | C | |
23 | LW | |
53 | D | |
76 | LW | |
24 | C | |
90 | C | |
96 | D | |
11 | RW |