PHILADELPHIA — Travis Konecny scored the tie-breaking goal with 6:07 remaining in the third period for the Philadelphia Flyers in a 3-2 win against the Vancouver Canucks at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.
Konecny also had an assist, and Scott Laughton scored short-handed for Philadelphia, which won its second straight game to start the season. Carter Hart made 27 saves.
Kyle Burroughs and Conor Garland scored for Vancouver, which has lost the first two games of its season-opening five-game road trip. Thatcher Demko made 27 saves.
Konecny put the Flyers ahead when Ivan Provorov‘s pass from the left point went off the stick of Canucks forward JT Miller and rolled to Konecny in front of the net. He dragged the puck around Demko and scored his third goal in two games.
The forward helped the Flyers tie the game 2-2 at 17:49 of the second period when he banked a pass off the left boards to send Laughton alone.
Burroughs gave Vancouver a 1-0 lead at 1:34 of the first period when his shot from the right face-off circle glanced off the left leg of a Philadelphia defenseman. Nick Seeler and over Hart’s left shoulder.
Garland made it 2-0 at 14:12. Canucks defenseman Luke Schenn knocked the puck away from the Flyers forward Kevin Hayes at the Philadelphia blue line. Vancouver forward Vasily Podkolzin skated the puck into the offensive zone, creating space that Garland skated into, and his shot from the right circle beat Hart.
Tony DeAngelo cut it to 2-1 at 10:32 of the second period on a power-play goal from just inside the blue line. It was the first goal with the Flyers for the native of nearby Sewell, New Jersey, who was acquired in a trade with the Carolina Hurricanes on July 8.
Canucks defenseman Tucker Poolman missed the final two periods because of an undisclosed injury.
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