The Philadelphia Flyers ended a three game road losing streak Friday night in Minnesota at the Xcel Energy Center.
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Carter Hart made 29 saves in the Flyers 4-3 overtime win over the Minnesota Wild.
Joel Farabee’s 13th goal of the season opened the scoring for the Flyers. Farabee’s goal ended a 7 game goal-less drought.
Travis Sanheim, while not getting the an assist, started the play with a slap pass off the boards to Sean Couturier. Who then fired the same style of pass to Travis Konecny in the lead up to the goal.
Farabee’s second goal of the night won the game for the Flyers in overtime.
Philadelphia (22-14-6) have points, 3-1-1, in four of their last five games.
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Travis Konecny extended his road game point streak to 10 games with an assist on the Flyers opening goal. Konecny’s slide a perfect saucer pass to Joel Farabee for the goal.
During his 10 game point streak, Konecny has 6 goals and 8 assists.
Tyson Foerster scored 6th goal of the season to get the Flyers within one just before the halfway point of the 3rd period. Foerster’s goal was his first in 16 games.
Owen Tippett quickly tied the game shortly after. Tippett’s 15th goal of the season was his third in the last three games.
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In the 2nd period, Minnesota took an early 1-0 lead. A play in which that did not make the Flyers bench happy.
John Tortorella was irritate with the referee’s who missed a clear delay of game penalty on Minnesota.
Minnesota took a 3-1 early in the 3rd period. But, for the second straight game, the Flyers came roaring back from a two goal deficit to win.
The Flyers now head to Winnipeg for the latter part of the back to back.
Score: Flyers 4 – Wild 3 , WIN
Record: 22 – 14 – 6
Next Game: Saturday 1/13 @ Winnipeg Jets
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