{"id":432386,"date":"2026-01-28T11:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432386\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:22:31","slug":"flyers-lay-an-egg-in-loss-to-islanders-and-hear-it-from-fans-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/432386\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers lay an egg in loss to Islanders and hear it from fans \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Tocchet talked about this being a “maturity game” for the Flyers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They didn’t handle it well, at all.<\/p>\n

The Flyers showed little life Monday night and lost to the Islanders, 4-0, at Xfinity Mobile Arena. They gave up two even strength goals, a power play goal and a shorthanded goal.<\/p>\n

They heard boos after the second-period horn and the final buzzer.<\/p>\n

This came after the Flyers had a commendable 2-0-1 road trip, which was capped off by a signature, 7-3 win over the NHL-best Avalanche<\/a>. Tocchet’s club also had two days of rest with Sunday’s practice being canceled because of the snowstorm.<\/p>\n

But the Flyers (24-18-9) failed to sustain any of the momentum and missed an opportunity to move into playoff position. They’re now four points back of the Islanders (28-19-6) for third place in the Metropolitan Division.<\/p>\n

They’ve won consecutive games only once since the calendar turned to 2026.<\/p>\n

The Flyers are 2-1-0 in their four-game regular-season series against New York. They recorded a pair of 4-3 shootout wins<\/a> in the opening two months of the season.<\/p>\n

The clubs wrap things up April 3 at UBS Arena.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Making his fourth straight start and seventh straight appearance, Samuel Ersson denied 19 of 23 shots.<\/p>\n

A bad tone was set for the Flyers when their power play gave up a first-period goal. Ersson played a bouncing puck to the corner, where Casey Cizikas took it and found a wide-open Jean-Gabriel Pageau streaking to the net.<\/p>\n

The Flyers’ 1-0 deficit grew to 3-0 during the middle stanza.<\/p>\n

Mathew Barzal scored on a redirection 5:41 minutes into the period. Then, a little over seven minutes later, former Flyer Tony DeAngelo struck on the power play. Cam York was in the box and Emil Andrae couldn’t handle a pass at the offensive blue line, which put the Islanders on the rush.<\/p>\n

Pageau added his second of the night in the third period.<\/p>\n

Dan Vladar was out for a sixth straight game because of a lower-body injury, but he’s pretty close to a return<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York netminder Ilya Sorokin continued to be a thorn in the Flyers’ side, stopping all 21 shots. It marked his 12th career win over the Flyers.<\/p>\n

He entered with a 1.61 goals-against average and .944 save percentage lifetime against them.<\/p>\n

The Flyers’ 27th-ranked power play went 0 for 3 and surrendered that game-opening shorthanded goal.<\/p>\n

\u2022 After missing six straight games with an upper-body injury, Rasmus Ristolainen was back in the lineup for Noah Juulsen.<\/p>\n

To make room on the roster, the Flyers loaned Hunter McDonald back to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Flyers are back in action Wednesday when they visit the Blue Jackets (7:30 p.m. ET\/TNT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Tocchet talked about this being a “maturity game” for the Flyers. They didn’t handle it well, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432387,"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-432386","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\/115972469411873013","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432386","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=432386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}