The Flyers brought their season-worst losing streak to a halt Monday night by gutting out a 2-1 win over the Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n
Travis Konecny delivered a big-time performance. He scored both of the Flyers’ goals on breakaways, with the second coming in the third period at shorthanded.<\/p>\n
Amid the toughest stretch of his NHL career, Samuel Ersson had his best outing of the season.<\/p>\n
The Flyers (23-17-8) stopped a six-game slide (0-5-1) in which they were outscored 31-12.<\/p>\n
Rick Tocchet’s club earned a much-needed win to open a challenging three-game road trip against teams all in Western Conference playoff position.<\/p>\n
The Flyers won in Vegas for the first time since Dec. 10, 2021, when they picked up a 4-3 decision. Carter Hart made 41 saves and Keith Yandle had two assists. Hart, now with the Golden Knights<\/a>, didn’t face his old club Monday night. The former Flyers goaltender was out with a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n Vegas had a seven-game winning streak snapped. The Flyers split their two-game regular-season series with the Golden Knights (24-12-12). They lost to Vegas, 3-2, in overtime<\/a> last month at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n \u2022 Perhaps this relieves some pressure for the Flyers.<\/p>\n They badly needed to grind one out and found a way to do it. The biggest positive for them was a competitive, low-scoring game, something that had totally eluded them the last five games of the losing streak.<\/p>\n Now the Flyers need to build on it and try to make life a little easier on themselves.<\/p>\n \u2022 Ersson was excellent, converting 24 saves on 25 shots.<\/p>\n He made a number of timely stops. The Flyers will hope this is a major jolt for his confidence.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old entered with a career-worst .855 save percentage and had given up 15 goals over his previous three starts.<\/p>\n Dan Vladar was placed on injured reserve Monday, a stint retroactive to last Wednesday<\/a>. So the 28-year-old could be activated this week. Based off Tocchet’s comments two days ago<\/a>, it sounds like Vladar has a chance to return Friday for the final game of the road trip.<\/p>\n He has missed the last three games with what the team disclosed Monday as a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n Golden Knights netminder Adin Hill stopped 15 of the Flyers’ 17 shots.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Flyers were getting annihilated on special teams over the losing streak.<\/p>\n Despite allowing another power play goal Monday night, the Flyers’ penalty kill went 6 for 7 and produced the game-winning marker. Konecny has 11 shorthanded goals over the last four seasons.<\/p>\n Vegas tied the game with 32 seconds left in the second period after Noah Cates was whistled for tripping. Tomas Hertl deflected one home from the slot.<\/p>\n The Flyers have surrendered nine power play goals in the last five games, but their PK was tested a lot against the Golden Knights and looked significantly stronger.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt was Travis Konecny’s second goal of the game against the Golden Knights and it was on the breakaway again. His 17th of the season made it 2-1 Flyers in the third.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \u2022 Nick Seeler made a great defensive play to break up a 2-on-1 rush in the second period and had a huge blocked shot in the final minute of the third period.<\/p>\n \u2022 After missing all six losses of the Flyers’ skid with an upper-body injury, Bobby Brink returned to the lineup.<\/p>\n It’s not a coincidence that the Flyers were better with him back.<\/p>\n