The Flyers won their preseason opener Sunday night with a 3-2 shootout decision over the Islanders at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York.

Matvei Michkov, Noah Cates, Rodrigo Abols and Emil Andrae all scored for the Flyers in the skills competition. Andrae’s tally was the winner in the 11th round.

Michkov and Abols provided the Flyers’ goals in regulation. Michkov’s marker came with 1:18 minutes left as the Flyers emptied their net and forced overtime.

The Flyers didn’t play five of their top six scorers from last season. They also sat three of their top defensemen in Travis Sanheim, Cam York and Nick Seeler, as well as their goaltending tandem of Samuel Ersson and Dan Vladar.

It was the first of seven exhibition games for Rick Tocchet and his new coaching staff.

“These are teachable moments and it’s good to have my staff on the bench, how we work, that’s an important thing, too,” Tocchet said Sunday morning. “We haven’t been together ourselves.”

• So much has been made of young roster hopefuls like Alex Bump, Nikita Grebenkin and Jett Luchanko.

But there hasn’t been much noise about Abols, a big 29-year-old forward who played 22 games for the Flyers last season.

Abols has a legit chance to crack the club’s season-opening lineup in the bottom six. He can play center or winger and does a lot of the little things. He also moves well for his size.

The 6-foot-4 Latvian scored on a nice shot only 2:42 minutes into the action off a pass from 2025 first-rounder Jack Nesbitt.

• Aleksei Kolosov was pretty solid in net through two periods. The 23-year-old stopped 15 of 17 shots.

The Islanders tied the game at 1-1 in the second period when Kyle Palmieri flushed a big rebound after Kolosov converted a save on 2025 first overall pick Matthew Schaefer.

But later in the period, Kolosov made a pair of athletic saves. The second came with New York on a 2-on-1 rush at shorthanded.

Kolosov then faced another 2-on-1 rush in the middle stanza but couldn’t deny this one as Marshall Warren put the Islanders ahead.

The 20-year-old Carson Bjarnason took over at the start of the third period and turned away all 17 shots that he faced.

• Trevor Zegras centered a line with Michkov and Grebenkin. The trio did some good things offensively.

Grebenkin, who came to the Flyers in the Scott Laughton trade, looks rather fearless.

“He plays with a ton of bite,” AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley head coach John Snowden said last weekend. “He’s a highly skilled player, but he is not easy to play against at all. He’s going to whack you when you come off the bench, he’s going to crosscheck you, he’s going to stick his nose in there.”

The 22-year-old winger had a goal and two assists over the pair of rookie games. He also set up a goal in the 3-on-3 portion of Saturday’s scrimmage.

• Lane Pederson suffered an upper-body injury toward the end of the first period and did not return to the game.

The 28-year-old center signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Flyers on July 1 and is projected to open the season with the Phantoms.

• The Flyers are off Monday before resuming training camp and game action Tuesday. After taking the ice in the morning, the club will head to Montreal for an exhibition matchup against the Canadiens (7 p.m. ET).