Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier each had a goal and two assists, Owen Tippett scored a pair of goals and the philadelphia flyers beat the ilers of Edmonton 6-3 on Saturday.
“We left skins there to dry far too many times, abandoning the escapes, 2 against 0 – it was not a very good solid effort of us loss.
In the first match of the 4 nations break for the two teams, Michkov opened the scoring in the first period when he followed his own failed shot and put the rebound in front of Stuart Skinner, who made 26 stops.
During the second period, Michkov made two passes without a look that turned into goals from the leaflets. He found a designer with a cross pass on the doorstep and later with a pass in the slit of the second count of Tippett on a breakaway of 2 against nothing.
Couturier’s goal was the 200th in his career.
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Tippett also scored on a breakaway earlier in the second period, for her first goal in a month. Tippett has missed the last five games with an upper body injury.
Andrei Kuzmenko and Rasmus Ristolainen also marked for Philadelphia.
Leon Draisaitl scored his 41st goal of the season of the season for Edmonton. John Klingberg and Mattias Ekholm also scored for the oilers, in the loss.
“As D-Men, we have not denied the line enough and we did not come back too fast too, so when you have this combination against a team with competence, it will prick you,” said the defender of the defender Oilers Darnell Nurse.
Samuel Ersson de Philly made 15 stops.
Take -out
Oilers: Matt Savoie made his debut for the Oilers and picked up the main aid on Draisaitl’s goal. It was the second career match for Savoie, which was a first round choice of Buffalo in 2022.
Flyers: Four Flyers returned from an injury in the match and a fifth, Jakob Pelletier, played his first match for Philadelphia after being acquired in a business with Calgary.
Key
In a second period of back and forth, a turnover of neutral zone of Edmonton – a washer rebounded on the stick of the Brett defender Kulak – led to the escape which led to the winner of the Tippett match .
Key statistics
The flyers held Connor McDavid without a point in the game.
The next
The oilers visit Washington’s capitals on Sunday while the flyers left until Tuesday evening when they welcome the Pittsburgh Penguins.
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