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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. It was a good crowd when you consider the game was not even 24 hours after a snowstorm.<\/p>\n

“We just got our butts kicked on home ice in a game where it’s probably tough to get to, and a lot of fans in the building,” Jamie Drysdale said. “We have to be better and we will be better.”<\/p>\n

The dud 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>.<\/p>\n

“To be a good team, you have to handle prosperity,” Tocchet said. “You’ve got to let the game go, even though it’s a good game for you, let it go and get your business hat on for the next game. And obviously we didn’t.”<\/p>\n

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

“We knew it was a big game, a four-point game in the division,” Trevor Zegras said. “We just kind of came out and thought it would be easy, I guess. They played a good game, they didn’t give us much. Just wasn’t our best tonight.”<\/p>\n

The Flyers have won consecutive games only once since the calendar turned to 2026.<\/p>\n

“That’s on me, I’ll wear it, I’ve got to get these guys ready to play after a win,” Tocchet said. “I don’t know what guys were doing for the last two days, but I don’t even know if anybody played well.”<\/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

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHead coach Rick Tocchet spoke to the media Monday night after the Flyers’ disappointing 4-0 loss to the Islanders.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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.<\/p>\n

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. Drysdale and Bobby Brink both went after Cizikas. There was no help behind them.<\/p>\n

“There was no effort coming back,” Tocchet said. “We didn’t even have the puck and then we had two guys go to the same guy and then one guy doesn’t backcheck. \u2026 Who knows if we’re 0-0 after the first, but it seemed like when they scored, some guys accepted it.”<\/p>\n

The Flyers’ 1-0 deficit grew to 3-0 in 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

“When we roll lines and stack shifts together, we’re a very dangerous team,” Noah Cates said. “But it just seems like maybe we get away from it after wins or something like that.”<\/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

“We just need to focus on ourselves,” Sean Couturier said. “Playing the right way, showing up every night.”<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTrevor Zegras and Sean Couturier discussed the Flyers’ 4-0 loss Monday night to the Islanders.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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":450508,"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-450507","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\/116030728036758727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450507","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=450507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}