Daily News | Goalie Carter Hart rebounds and the Flyers defeat the injury-plagued Colorado Avalanche, 5-3
No captain Gabriel Landeskog, no winger Valeri Nichushkin, no winger Artturi Lehkonen for the reigning Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche, because of injury? That was no problem for the Flyers, who have been decimated by injuries of their own for the last two seasons.
However, the Avalanche mounted a late push with the Flyers up, 4-1, as winger Mikko Rantanen scored with just over two minutes remaining in the third and center Alex Newhook cut the Flyers’ lead to one with a minute and a half left. The Flyers closed out the scoring with a Travis Konecny empty-net goal.
While they secured the win, the Flyers lost Laczynski in the third period to an apparent lower-body injury.Although goalie Carter Hart allowed three goals on 18 shots against the Devils, which included a goal off a mishandled puck behind his net, coach John Tortorella expressed confidence in his starter and went back to him against the Avalanche. Hart’s response was mostly positive, as he denied 29 of 32 shots though three periods.
The breakaways didn’t stop for the Avalanche — defenseman Cale Makar had one of his own off a Flyers turnover seven and a half minutes into the third period, but Hart deflected his shot with his glove. Winger Charles Hudon attempted to score on a wraparound off the rebound, but Hart answered the call and made the save.In the Flyers’ last victory, over the New York Islanders on Nov.
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