Flyers come back to beat Wild in shootout, pull off two wins in 24 hours
The Flyers came back from a 2-1 deficit to beat the Wild in a shootout and pull off two wins in 24 hours.
Flyers come back to beat Wild in shootout, pull off two wins in 24 hours originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
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It's the Flyers and the Minnesota Wild.
Grand Casino Arena here in St. Paul.
Second and final meeting of the season between these two clubs.
Middleton, checked by Zegras, who steals the puck.
Zegras holding on, waits.
Hits a man coming late.
It's Andre for the shot, score!
Emil Andre back in the lineup and on the board, and the Flyers get the first goal for a change.
They have a one nothing lead.
Zegras does a good job of checking the puck back.
Andre joins, gets his second of the year, and the Flyers have the first goal of this game.
Sends it to the other side of the ice.
Zuccarello will penetrate the Philadelphia zone.
They cross ice, it bounces free.
The shot, and they score.
Boldy fires it in as the puck kind of found him on the dump in, and a power play goal ties this game at one.
Keep it in.
They get it to Kaprizov.
Kaprizov holds, fires and scores.
Kirill Kaprizov, goals in six straight games in this building, and he's given the Wild their first lead of the game two to one.
Owen Tippett.
Force that puck free.
Sanheim gets to it, moves it to Granlund, and now Tippett.
In across the line, and wind and blast and score!
Owen Tippett with a short-handed goal, and he ties this game at two.
Hey, why not take a shot?
He winds up and blasts it through Volstead.
Oh my goodness, it looked like we were playing hockey in 1987 there with the slapper from distance.
Chop at it.
Dvorak got a piece of it.
Flyers float it out of a two on one.
They've got the puck.
Tippett with it.
Tippett holds.
He waits, goes around behind, centers it.
Oh, Konechny got it, it was Konechny.
Konechny just heels it, and he went back to the, he went back to the bench, and he gave the door a pretty good slam, but- Travis Konechny has the game on his stick.
He scores, Flyers are winners.
Six for 31 in his career, one for four this year.
Slowly on in, he scores.
Travis Konechny had the great chance late in the game.
Couldn't bury that one, but he buries this one in the shootout.
And the Flyers come into Minnesota on short rest and knock off one of the top teams in the NHL, 3-2 in the shootout.
What a gutsy win for the orange and black.
Gutsy effort.
I'm not gonna get-- no negative from me tonight.
It's, you know, got in at 3:00 in the morning.
The guy's resilient, so hell of a job.
The w- that's a tough, team to get two points against.
