{"id":433859,"date":"2026-01-29T06:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:11:18","slug":"strong-efforts-from-dan-vladar-travis-konecny-go-wasted-in-flyers-loss-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/433859\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong efforts from Dan Vladar, Travis Konecny go wasted in Flyers\u2019 loss \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Vladar’s return and Travis Konecny’s hat trick couldn’t save the Flyers from their struggles.<\/p>\n

The club followed up its dud on home ice with a 5-3 loss Wednesday night to the Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena.<\/p>\n

Konecny’s second and third goals made it a 3-3 game in the final stanza. But not even a minute and a half after Konecny punctuated his hat trick, the Flyers lost Sean Monahan backdoor as Columbus regained its lead.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets finished things off with an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

The Flyers (24-19-9) have dropped their last two games by a combined score of 9-3. On Monday night, they were blanked by the Islanders, 4-0, and elicited boos from their fans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rick Tocchet’s club has lost nine of its last 11 games (2-7-2), a stretch in which it has allowed 4.45 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Last season, the Flyers were just one win behind this pace at 23-23-6 through 52 games.<\/p>\n

This was the first of three meetings this season between the Flyers and Blue Jackets (25-20-7).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Flyers saw their all-important goaltender back in net. And his presence was felt.<\/p>\n

Vladar converted 26 saves on 30 shots after missing the previous six games with a lower-body injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old made an absolutely stellar glove save early in the third period with the Flyers on the penalty kill. It kept the game at 3-1 and gave the Flyers a chance to make a comeback attempt.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFlyers goalie Dan Vladar makes a ridiculous save in his first game back after a six-game absence.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

After Konecny drew the Flyers to within 3-2, Vladar delivered another spectacular glove stop. Konecny rewarded him again to tie the game with 4:46 minutes left.<\/p>\n

But the Flyers didn’t help Vladar a whole lot. They fell behind just 38 seconds into the action after a Trevor Zegras turnover led to a point-blank look for Charlie Coyle.<\/p>\n

With 20 seconds left in the first period, Owen Tippett lost a puck battle with Zach Werenski, who then found Kirill Marchenko to give Columbus a 2-1 lead. The Flyers wanted a penalty on Werenski, but didn’t get it.<\/p>\n

Early in the second period, the Flyers’ deficit grew as Erik Gudbranson scored on a shot through a ton of traffic.<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets netminder Elvis Merzlikins stopped 24 of the Flyers’ 27 shots.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Flyers got another huge effort from Konecny. They dropped to 10-2-0 when he records a multi-point game.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old alternate captain has 48 points (20 goals, 28 assists) in 51 games.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Flyers forward cashes in on his third goal of the game to tie the Flyers at three with the Blue Jackets.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rasmus Ristolainen exited with a lower-body injury after playing just two shifts. More on him here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Flyers are right back at it Thursday when they visit the Bruins (7 p.m. ET\/NBCSP+).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Vladar’s return and Travis Konecny’s hat trick couldn’t save the Flyers from their struggles. The club followed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433860,"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-433859","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\/115976908550568853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433859","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=433859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}