The Flyers fell into a 3-1 hole Saturday night and didn’t have enough to get out of it.
The club lost to Rangers, 6-3, at the Wells Fargo Center.
The Flyers (10-15-7) haven’t won a game in a row since Nov. 11. 5-8. They came home to a morale-boosting 2-1 victory Thursday against the Devils, a game in which they survived 49 shots from New Jersey.
John Tortorella rolled with 11 forwards and seven defensemen on Saturday night. The head coach made a bold move to cleanly eliminate top scorer Kevin Hayes. Tortorella respected the decision despite the fact that Zack MacEwen was sick and Lukas Sedlak leaves the club.
The Flyers have lost 17 of their last 20 games (3-12-5), a streak in which they have scored 2.20 goals per game.
“I know you’re sick of hearing the s — from me about good minutes and this and that,” Tortorella said. “It’s another loss, but I can’t see it that way. I have to keep being part of the group and try to help them and keep teaching.”
“I like the group. We have some shortcomings in terms of skill level and things we need to add to our group, but they are our team at the moment and I like the way they are performing. “
But is not getting back-to-back wins starting to get frustrating?
“Yeah,” Scott Laughton said.
New York won its sixth straight game. Many Rangers fans made the trip to Philadelphia and enjoyed this one.
Jimmy Vesey’s 4-2 goal in the third period proved to be the game-winning goal. Morgan Frost responded a minute and a half later, but the Flyers failed to tie.
Jacob Trouba finished things off with a shorthanded goal into an empty net. Ryan Lindgren nailed another empty net for good measure.
The Flyers are 0-1-1 against the Rangers (17-10-5) this season and will face them once again in a March 1 game in Philadelphia.
• After James van Riemsdyk opened the scoring 7:11 minutes into the game, New York replied with three straight goals, giving the Flyers what looked like an insurmountable deficit.
Artemi Panarin tied the game later in the first half. Carter Hart had little to no luck on the shot right at his doorstep.
In the second period, shortly after the Flyers failed to convert on the power play, K’Andre Miller put on an impressive play on the ice and beat Hart even after the defender tripped on his breakaway .
Just over three minutes later, Barclay Goodrow broke Rangers’ 3-1 lead.
The Flyers had a chance to enter the third period thanks to a decisive save from Hart and a huge shorthanded goal from Laughton in the final three and a half minutes after the start of the second period.
The Flyers’ power play was expensive 0 for 4 on the night. It came empty with less than three and a half minutes left in a 4-3 game.
Get out of his career-high 48 save effortHart stopped 29 of the Rangers’ 33 shots.
“We know they have a lot of talent up front, they can make plays, they usually have four guys rushing,” Hart said. “A few times they fell behind our guys. That’s how it happens. We have to look at it, review it, learn from it and move on.”
New York substitute Jaroslav Halak denied 29 of the Flyers’ 32 shots.
• Tony DeAngelo returned to the roster after being out for the last three games of the Flyers’ four-game road trip.
The 27-year-old defender was back home due to the death of his grandmother Jo-Ann DeAngelo.
“We were super, super close,” DeAngelo said Saturday morning. “Probably closer to her than I was to anyone else. Just a difficult loss for everyone. It was unexpected, so sad.”
DeAngelo is a local producer. After being traded to the Flyers in the offseason, he was able to enjoy daily visits with his grandmother at her South Philadelphia home in Packer Park.
“We told him everything, honestly,” an emotional DeAngelo said. If you’ve ever had any issues or anything you just needed to talk about, we told him.
“We all live in the same neighborhood. Every day after we finished here this summer, we used to have lunch every day. I would bring him his lunch or I would just bring my lunch over there and we would sit together. Just a lot of times individuals.”
• Laughton was beaten up in the third period but stayed in the game.
• Wade Allison (oblique/hip) took part in Saturday morning practice. The 25-year-old winger has been out for longer than the Flyers originally anticipated.
Allison was injured on November 2. 12. In November. On February 22, the Flyers announced he would be out for approximately two to three weeks.
It was announced Saturday that the Flyers had placed Cam Atkinson (upper body) on injured reserve, which tells you his recovery isn’t quite a day-to-day thing. The move freed up another roster spot for the Flyers, who needed it with all the juggling.
Atkinson was training and was cleared to be contacted at the end of last month. He was not seen on the ice Saturday.
Patrick Brown and Kieffer Bellows entered the lineup on Saturday night.
• The Flyers are back on Tuesday as they host the Blue Jackets (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).
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