PHILADELPHIA — Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists for the Calgary Flames in a 5-2 win against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Monday.
Jonathan Huberdeau, Dillon Dube and Rasmus Andersson scored for Calgary (9-7-2), which won 5-4 in a shootout at the Florida Panthers on Saturday. Jacob Markstrom made 23 saves.
“Thought we stuck with it,” Coleman said. “A little tighter than maybe we need to make the game sometimes. They worked hard, they kept coming. Give them credit for the group they put on the ice there. [At the] At the end of the day, we found a way to win. Two in a row on the road here, and now we got to build on it.”
Tanner Laczynski and Joel Farabee scored for Philadelphia (7-8-4), which has lost seven in a row (0-5-2). Carter Hart made 25 saves.
The Flyers played their second straight game without a forward Travis Konecny (upper body), their leading scorer. They also were without forward Scott Laughton (upper body), their only alternate captain; Philadelphia doesn’t have a captain.
“It’s next man up right now,” defenseman Travis Sanheim said. “Obviously, key guys out with injuries and we’ve just got to find a way to stick together as a group and continue to fight through this and find a way to win some hockey games.”
Video: CGY@PHI: Huberdeau scores first goal for Flames
Huberdeau gave the Flames a 1-0 lead at 4:43 of the first period when he finished a 2-on-1 rush, and a similar odd-man rush led to Dube making it 2-0 at 13:51.
“This is always a hard building to come into year after year, so to come out in the first period and have the start that we did, I thought it was important for our group,” Muller said. “That first period just kind of led into the full three periods and a good, complete game.”
Flyers coach John Tortorella said poor decisions by two forwards were the reason for the odd-man rushes.
“Both the goals, we’re not supporting our D,” Tortorella said. “Our D were in the rush, our D was pinched on both situations and our forwards didn’t back them up, gave up a 2-on-1. … Those are fundamental mistakes we made as far as backing up when you see your D involved somewhere. That last forward needs to back up and we didn’t on both occasions and it’s in the back of our net.”
Video: CGY@PHI: Laczynski scores his first NHL goal
Laczynski tipped Kevin Hayesshot to make it 2-1 at 14:33 for his first NHL goal, in his 19th game. Hayes extended his point streak to six games (three goals, four assists).
Andersson made it 3-1 at 3:29 of the second period when his shot from the left point went in off Farabee’s stick. Farabee cut it to 3-2 at 9:03 of the third period, scoring off a Flames turnover.
Coleman made it 4-2 with an empty-net goal at 18:09, and Trevor Lewis added an empty-net goal at 19:23 for the 5-2 final.
Video: CGY@PHI: Andersson scores with a one-timer
Coleman, playing his 400th NHL game, had his first three-point game of the season. He has four points (two goals, two assists) in his past two games after he had five assists in his first 16.
“Sometimes you’ve just got to break that seal,” he said. “I’ve been like that my whole career, where they seem to come in bunches for whatever reason.”
Coleman, born in Plano, Texas, is the fifth player born in the state to play 400 NHL games. The other Texas-born players with at least 400 NHL games are Hall of Fame defenseman Brian Leetch (1,205), Vancouver Canucks defenseman Tyler Myers (855), Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones (666) and former NHL defenseman Mike Christie (412).
“It shows our game is really growing,” said Flames associate coach Kirk Muller, who played his final four NHL seasons (1999-2003) with the Dallas Stars. “When I was in Dallas, you saw the rinks being built and the kids playing hockey there. He’s an example of those kids that have come up now and made the NHL, and not only for a few games.
“To play 400 games is quite an honor. And he had a heck of a game to finish that 400th game. It’s a nice, memorable game for him.”
NOTES: It’s the Flyers’ longest skid since they lost 13 straight (0-10-3) from Dec. 30, 2021-Jan. 25, 2022. … Huberdeau’s goal was his sixth in seven games against Hart. … Dube’s goal was his first in 17 games. … Tortorella coached his 1,402nd game, passing Ron Wilson for 10th in NHL history.
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