{"id":421815,"date":"2026-01-22T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:22:44","slug":"rick-tocchet-sends-a-strong-message-after-another-flyers-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421815\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Tocchet sends a strong message after another Flyers meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when it looked like the Philadelphia Flyers were back on track after snapping a six-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., on Monday, they came crashing back down.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Flyers fell prey to the Utah Mammoth via overtime to the tune of a 5-4 score at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia head coach Rick Tocchet was far from amused by his team\u2019s poor finish in what should have been the Flyers\u2019 24th win in the 2025-26 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had good parts of [the game], but that\u2019s unacceptable what happened tonight,\u201d Tocchet said, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/philadelphia-flyers-utah-mammoth-game-recap-january-21-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Komma of NHL.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sunk in pressure situations, something that we\u2019ve got to get out of this team, right? You\u2019ve got to rise to the occasion. You\u2019ve got to want to be out there in pressure situations. A couple of guys sunk in certain situations, so it\u2019s the bottom line. We\u2019ve got to recover from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It started well for Tocchet\u2019s squad, as the Flyers had a 2-0 lead after the first period. They went up 3-0 after a goal by Bobby Brink on the power play just a minute into the second period. Utah responded with back-to-back goals from JJ Peterka and Lawson Crouse before Christian Dvorak found the back of the net with another Philly goal in the man advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Holding a 4-2 lead heading into the third frame, the Flyers looked primed to notch their second win in a row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the wheels fell off for them, as the Mammoth scored a pair of goals in the third period while blanking their visitors to tie the score at 4-4 and force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Clayton Keller completed the comeback for Utah with a game-winning goal off an assist from Dylan Guenther.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! \ud83e\udd2f <\/p>\n<p>Clayton Keller wins it for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utahmammoth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@utahmammoth<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Energizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Energizer<\/a> overtime! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5knpVtJncY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/5knpVtJncY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL (@NHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL\/status\/2014200959023378645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is now tied for second in the league for most overtime losses despite leading after the first period, as the Flyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/teams?report=leadingtrailing&amp;reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20252026&amp;seasonTo=20252026&amp;gameType=2&amp;sort=otLossLeadPeriod1&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have three such defeats<\/a>, thus far in the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when it looked like the Philadelphia Flyers were back on track after snapping a six-game losing streak&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,4,1467,56,5205,1446],"class_list":{"0":"post-421815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-flyers","8":"tag-flyers","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","13":"tag-philadelphiaflyers","14":"tag-rick-tocchet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115939438977744594","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421815","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=421815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}