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Martone also had an assist, and Dvorak had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia (39-26-12), which is 14-6-1 in 21 games since the break for the 2026 Winter Olympics.\u00a0Dan Vladar<\/a>\u00a0made 18 saves.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time the Flyers are in a playoff spot since Jan. 12. They are one point ahead of the New York Islanders, who have played one more game, and two points ahead of the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n

“There’s a lot of growth,” Philadelphia coach Rick Tocchet said. “I think the team’s done a great job since training camp. A little bit of a roller coaster sometimes, but for the most part, this team has stuck together all year. Really proud of them.”<\/p>\n

Pavel Zacha<\/a> scored and Korpisalo made 29 saves for Boston (43-26-9), which has lost three straight, including 3-1 at the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Bruins hold the first wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

“A huge point for us,” Bruins coach Marco Sturm said. “Guys battled back. We wanted to have a power-play goal in the third and we did. ‘Korpi’ made some great saves. Unfortunate there in OT, but we’ll definitely take that point.”<\/p>\n

Martone did his own setup work on Dvorak’s goal that gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead at 4:19 of the first period. He played a puck off the boards between his legs to send Dvorak and Travis Konecny<\/a>\u00a0off on a 2-on-1 rush. Dvorak kept the puck and snapped a shot past Korpisalo’s glove from the right face-off circle.<\/p>\n

“Not an easy play at all,” Dvorak said. “And straight on my tape, I (didn’t) even have to move my stick. A high hockey IQ play. Very smart player. Those are big plays and he was a massive difference maker for us tonight.<\/p>\n

“He’s a confident kid, confident player. And that’s what you need in this League. So it’s been fun to watch, fun to play with him. And he’s only going to get better.”<\/p>\n

In four games since his debut March 31, Martone has three points (one goal, two assists) and leads the NHL with 20 shots on goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Awesome,” Flyers forward Noah Cates<\/a>\u00a0said. “He’s helped us. That’s the biggest thing this time of year, and especially for a younger kid, to come in and help us, bring energy. It’s huge for us. For him to keep going and get one and get confidence, it’s been big for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martone also had an assist, and Dvorak had a goal and an assist for Philadelphia (39-26-12), which is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5099],"tags":[154,95,5132,530,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-543106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-bruins","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-boston-bruins","10":"tag-bostonbruins","11":"tag-bruins","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116355465432573730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543106","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=543106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}