Wrap: Oilers Pull Away, Beat Flyers 5-2

Suffering their third straight loss to finish a four-game western road trip with a 1-2-1 record, the Philadelphia Flyers (19-13-5) fell to the Edmonton Oilers, 5-2, at Rogers Place on Tuesday evening. The Oilers have won six games in a row.

Superstar Oilers center Connor McDavid figured in all five Oilers goals, scoring their first goal and collecting primary assists on the other four. Ryan Nugent-Hopins had two goals and an assist. Leon Draisaitl and Zack Hyman each collected a goal and an assist. The Oilers were 1-for-4 on the power play and also scored at 6-on-5 on a delayed penalty early in third period for their third and fourth goals of the night.

The Flyers got one goal from their likeliest source (Travis Konecny) and another from one of their unlikeliest (Marc Staal) as they erased a 2-0 deficit in the second period to temporarily draw even. Konecny (1g, 1a) and Joel Farabee (2a) both had two-point games. Sean Couturier (1A) helped start the Konecny goal sequence. In the third period, Farabee also had a breakaway but could not finish.

The second period, although each team scored twice, was the best of the three periods from Philadelphia's standpoint. Unfortunately, a careless tripping penalty by Cam Atkinson and then a near-miss opportunity for Konecny to poke the puck past the blueline for a breakaway, proved deadly. A tic-tac-goal, finished off by a Nugent-Hopkins slam dunk at the right post off a feed from McDavid, put the Oilers back in the lead for good.

Carter Hart, with the exception of McDavid's goalie dribbling through the five-hole from the right hash marks, couldn't do much else to alter the outcome. He finished with 31 saves on 36 shots. Stuart Skinner earned the win with 35 saves on 37 shots.

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