PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Now that\u2019s a first NHL goal for the storybook.<\/p>\n
Porter Martone scored his first goal as a Flyer at 2:31 of overtime Sunday to send the Flyers to a 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n
The Flyers move into the third spot in the Metropolitan Division standings, which keeps them in contention for a wild card spot. They jumped over the idle New York Islanders, who fired coach Patrick Roy Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
With five games remaining, the Flyers can end a five-year postseason drought with a decent showing in road games against New Jersey on Tuesday, Detroit on Thursday and Winnipeg on Saturday, plus season-ending home games against Carolina and Montreal. The Devils are almost eliminated from playoff content. Detroit has lost 12 of 20 games to imperil their playoff chances.<\/p>\n
Martone scored while the Flyers were on a rare overtime 5-on-3 power play.<\/p>\n
Leading 1-0 going into the third period, the Flyers surrendered a power-play goal to Pavel Zacha 35 seconds in. That extended the Flyers streak of not having a shutout to 116 games, the second-longest in team history.<\/p>\n
The Flyers jumped on the Bruins early and held them to just three shots for the period. Martone helped the Flyers get on the scoreboard first by triggering a two-on-one for Christian Dvorak and Travis Konecny. Dvorak faked a pass to Konecny, then buried a shot past Joonas Korpisalo at 4:19.<\/p>\n
Defense took over in the second period. The Bruins got 11 shots, many from low danger areas. Dan Vladar made 18 saves on the night.<\/p>\n
NOTES >> Denver Barkey was scratched for a second straight game. \u2026 Matvei Michkov\u2019s three-point game in Friday night\u2019s 4-1 win at Long Island was the seventh of his career. Only five players (Eric Lindros, Peter Zezel, Ken Linseman, Bill Barber and Mel Bridgman) have had more at his age. \u2026 Travis Sanheim needs just one more goal to tie Ivan Provorov (65) for fourth place for goals by a Flyer defenseman. Mark Howe holds the record with 138.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Now that\u2019s a first NHL goal for the storybook. Porter Martone scored his first goal as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5112],"tags":[1468,5,4,1467,56,5205,43,5095],"class_list":{"0":"post-542832","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-sports","15":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116354553859841168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542832","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=542832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}