Flyers fail to convert late, fall to Capitals in first game back from Olympics
The Flyers had chances to take the lead late in the game Wednesday, but they ultimately fell to the Capitals in their first game back from the Olympic break.
Flyers fail to convert late, fall to Capitals in first game back from Olympics originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
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The NHL season resumes and for the Flyers, a huge game here in Washington against the Capitals on NBC Sports Philadelphia.
Brink holds, waits back, then cakes the shot, and another big stop by Thompson.
Pass to Grundstrom cutting in.
Grundstrom holds the shot, and the save made.
Starts to break it up, but he doesn't clear.
Here's Chychrun.
Chychrun down low.
Laviolette back out in front, the shot, and they score!
Rasmus Sandin, the defenseman, breaks the ice here late in the second period, one-nothing, Washington.
And Dan Bedard was a little upset there about, some touching going on.
Look at the-- oh, he does, yeah, he whacks the stick out of Dan Bedard as well right there, and- Played up, but not out.
Here's Michkov going back across ice, holding his brink.
He plays it to the point, the shot, and they score!
Squeezes through.
Cakes may have gotten his stick on it, and the Flyers, just twenty-nine seconds into the third, have tied this game at one.
We always talk about going to the blue paint to get goals, people.
That's what it's all about.
Look at that, two Flyers guys right there, Mich and Noah Cates.
Brink to the puck.
Brink centers in the shot, Michkov, it didn't go.
Great spot by Brink.
Michkov couldn't finish it.
He'll drop it back to Protas.
Protas for Chism in deep, the pass, the shot, and they score!
Trevor van Riemsdyk, the defenseman, able to beat Bedard from in tight, and the Caps take a two-one lead with less than six minutes to play in the third.
Huge opportunity for the Flyers.
Forty-eight point four seconds to go.
They get a power play, so it'll be six on four, with the goalie pulled.
Konecny right around the other way, and Michkov couldn't get to it.
Protas charges up, Flyers, and score.
They couldn't take advantage of some chances that they had, some chances to bury the game.
Michkov had a couple of chances.
Konecny on a-- tried to get a pass through to get a, a, a great chance on net.
So they This is a team that, when you get those chances, you, you have to have a finisher, and they really have, have struggled for a while now with that finisher, and they couldn't do it again tonight.
