The Flyers will be happy to be done with the Lightning this season.<\/p>\n
They were outclassed by Tampa Bay again in a 5-1 loss Monday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
Christian Dvorak provided the Flyers’ lone goal when the Lightning already had a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Flyers (22-14-8) couldn’t rebound from their worst loss of the season, a 7-2 drubbing right here two days ago to this same Tampa Bay team<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rick Tocchet’s club has dropped consecutive games in regulation for just the second time. The Flyers are now 9-2-2 in games following a regulation loss.<\/p>\n A banged-up Travis Konecny returned to the lineup after he missed his first game of the season with an upper-body injury<\/a>. Konecny, though, is now dealing with a lower-body injury after he took a puck to his knee Sunday at practice<\/a>.<\/p>\n It didn’t keep him out Monday night. His game ended early with 9:24 minutes left in the third period when he was tossed for “abuse of officials” after being whistled for crosschecking.<\/p>\n The Lightning (28-13-3) are on an absolutely torrid stretch in which they’ve scored five goals per game over 10 straight wins.<\/p>\n The Flyers were swept in their three-game regular-season series with Tampa Bay and were outscored 15-3.<\/p>\n \u2022 Dan Vladar could do only so much for the Flyers.<\/p>\n He wasn’t at his best, but he really wasn’t a problem. The 28-year-old finished with 21 saves on 25 shots.<\/p>\n The Lightning’s final goal was an empty-netter.<\/p>\n The Flyers fell behind 1-0 for the 30th time. Tampa Bay’s game-opening goal came just 1:10 minutes into the action when the Flyers couldn’t locate a loose puck at the feet of Pontus Holmberg.<\/p>\n Then, only 33 seconds into the middle stanza, Erik Cernak’s shot went off Jake Guentzel and past Vladar. Not even four minutes later, Brayden Point padded the Lightning’s lead to 3-0 on the power play. Vladar made the initial save on Point, but he had little to no chance at stopping the next shot off the rebound.<\/p>\n Dvorak stemmed the tide for the Flyers with a goal. The Flyers had a chance to trim the deficit to 3-2 with a couple of power plays, but they didn’t record a shot on either one.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay took advantage, extending its lead back to three with another power play goal in the final minute of the second period.<\/p>\n Lightning netminder Jonas Johansson stopped 19 of the Flyers’ 20 shots.<\/p>\n \u2022 Matvei Michkov was held without a point.<\/p>\n Since the start of December, the 21-year-old winger has just one goal \u2014 an empty-netter \u2014 in 19 games. Michkov has eight assists over that span, but the Flyers could really use his goal-scoring ability.<\/p>\n It just hasn’t been there right now.<\/p>\n \u2022 Rodrigo Abols and Nikita Grebenkin both dropped the gloves for the Flyers simultaneously in the third period.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt wasn’t a donnybrook, but close to it. Nikita Grebenkin and Max Crozier got game misconducts after their fight, while Rodrigo Abols and Nick Paul got five minutes for fighting.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers are back in action Wednesday when they visit the Sabres (7:30 p.m. ET\/TNT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Flyers will be happy to be done with the Lightning this season. They were outclassed by Tampa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,339,5,4,1467,56,5205],"class_list":{"0":"post-407039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-flyers-analysis","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-philadelphiaflyers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115893153621071046","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}