NEW YORK \u2014 The Flyers rallied from a 2-0 deficit Thursday night to pick up a 3-2 win over the Rangers in overtime at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
Matvei Michkov buried the game-winner with his second goal of the night.<\/p>\n
“He had some confidence yesterday,” Rick Tocchet said. “He’s getting some confidence here.”<\/p>\n
This was the 19th overtime for Tocchet’s club. The Flyers improved to 3-8 in OT and 8-11 after regulation.<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras scored the Flyers’ other goal. It was his 21st of the season and it tied the game at 2-2 just 39 seconds into the third period.<\/p>\n
“We’ve done it all year where we’ve had some slow starts, give up the first goal and just keep battling back,” Travis Konecny said.<\/p>\n
The Flyers (26-21-11) split their back-to-back set out of the Olympic break. They fell Wednesday night to the Capitals, 3-1<\/a>.<\/p>\n They were able to capitalize on a Rangers (22-29-7) team that is retooling. The Flyers improved to 1-1-1 against New York this season. The clubs have one more meeting in a week and a half at Xfinity Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n \u2022 Samuel Ersson converted 23 saves on 25 shots.<\/p>\n He had a huge stop in overtime as the Flyers were on the penalty kill. Michkov was in the penalty box for a tough goalie interference penalty. He was making a play to the net late in regulation.<\/p>\n New York’s game-opening goal in the first period was one Ersson definitely wanted back.<\/p>\n “I think after letting that goal in, him digging in, I think he should have a lot of confidence,” Tocchet said. “We told him, that’s going to happen, those goals like that.”<\/p>\n Sam Carrick threw a shot from the side boards that squeaked through the Flyers’ goaltender. It was a bad one for Ersson, who was pretty sharp at puck drop. He made an outstanding stop on Adam Fox just 27 seconds into the action.<\/p>\n “He was fantastic,” Zegras said. “The save that he made on Fox in the first four minutes, the penalty kill in overtime \u2014 he was amazing.<\/p>\n “When that first one goes in, he made so many ridiculous saves that, like, it didn’t even matter.”<\/p>\n The Rangers extended their lead to 2-0 early in the second period. The Flyers had a defensive breakdown when they left Alexis Lafreniere alone in the slot.<\/p>\n But Michkov, Zegras and the Flyers chipped away. Michkov drew them to within 2-1 a little over halfway through the game with a power play goal.<\/p>\n “He had two big goals for us,” Konecny said. “Obviously the overtime one, but I thought the first one was a timely one. It kind of helped us calm down and get us back into it. He’s playing great, he looked fast, he looked confident with the puck.”<\/p>\n New York netminder Igor Shesterkin stopped 21 of the Flyers’ 24 shots.<\/p>\n