The Philadelphia Flyers squandered a pair of one-goal leads Tuesday evening however at the very least managed to salvage a degree in a sport that will find yourself having playoff implications.
The New York Islanders might take no such solace of their most up-to-date defeat.
A pair of groups making an attempt to hold on within the Jap Convention wild-card race will meet Thursday evening when the Flyers meet the Islanders in Elmont, N.Y.
Each groups had been off Wednesday following defeats Tuesday evening. The Flyers fell to the host Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 in a shootout, and the Islanders started a seven-game homestand with a 2-0 loss to the Ottawa Senators.
Owen Tippett scored 8:13 into the third interval to present the Flyers a 2-1 lead, however Zach Werenski tied the sport slightly greater than seven minutes later earlier than Kent Johnson and Kirill Marchenko collected objectives within the shootout because the Blue Jackets prevented Philadelphia from gaining floor within the playoff chase.
With the win, the Blue Jackets (48 factors) maintained sole possession of the second wild card. The Flyers, Detroit Crimson Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins all have 44 factors — and so they additionally path the Senators (47 factors) and the Montreal Canadiens (46 factors).
The loss ended a two-game profitable streak for the Flyers, who had been making an attempt to brush a back-to-back set after overcoming a two-goal first interval deficit Monday in a 4-3 win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. Philadelphia’s two longest profitable streaks of the season had been each three video games.
“We put quite a lot of fuel in our sport (Monday) evening,” Flyers coach John Tortorella mentioned after the Tuesday defeat. “Irritating for me as a result of we had an opportunity to win this one. We (gave) it away slightly bit on the finish, however we’ll simply take the purpose and go.”
The frustration ran even deeper for the Islanders, whose season-high three-game profitable streak ended as they slipped seven factors behind the Blue Jackets and 6 factors behind the Senators. New York is in final place within the Metropolitan Division and in fifteenth place within the Jap Convention, forward of solely the Buffalo Sabres.
The Islanders had been outshot 27-24 on Tuesday as their acquainted offensive woes continued. New York was scoreless in its lone power-play alternative as its streak of video games and not using a power-play purpose reached 14 — the longest such run in group historical past. The group is 0-for-25 with the person benefit in the course of the drought.
The Islanders, whose profitable streak consisted of highway victories over the Boston Bruins, Vegas Golden Knights and Utah Hockey Membership, scored one purpose or fewer Tuesday for the 14th time this season.
“We now have to reply to this — I imply, the place we had been in, profitable three in a row, had an opportunity to go for 4 in a row, I believe we should always have been extra hungry,” Islanders coach Patrick Roy mentioned. “We should always have had extra urgency than what we did. Generally, you need to dig (for) these ones, and for some purpose, we didn’t.”
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