Crosby’s late goal not enough for Pens in loss
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PHILADELPHIA -- Travis Konecny scored a milestone goal, Bobby Brink scored the shootout winner and had a goal and an assist and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Tuesday night.
Konecny notched his 200th career goal in the second period on a shot from the right circle, beating Pittsburgh goalie Arturs Silovs over his blocker. He became the 17th player in Flyers history to reach the 200-goal plateau.
Brink scored on the power play in the first by poking a rebound past Silovs for his third goal of the season. He also made a deft double deke move on a goal in the shootout. Sam Ersson made 24 saves for the Flyers, who won for the fourth time in five games.
Sidney Crosby scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season to force overtime for the Penguins, who have registered at least one point in seven straight (5-0-2).
Justin Brazeau scored his sixth goal for Pittsburgh and Silovs made 32 saves.
Both teams thought they had won the game in overtime. A Penguins goal by Evgeni Malkin was waived off for an illegal substitution on a delayed penalty when Malkin entered the ice before Silovs made it to the bench.
Minutes later, a would-be power play goal by Philadelphia's Tyson Foerster was waived off after a league-initiated review determined the play was offside.
The Flyers wound up out-shooting the Penguins by a 34-26 count in the game.
Pittsburgh was plagued by turnovers, giving away the puck 19 times to just 15 times by the Flyers.
Up next
The Penguins continue their four-game road trip in Minnesota on Thursday.
The Wild were 3-5-2 going into play on Tuesday night. Pittsburgh will follow with a trip to Canada to take on Winnipeg Saturday afternoon with a puck-drop time of 3 p.m.
Philadelphia remains home, where the Flyers are in the middle of playing nine of 10, when they host Nashville on Thursday.
The Predators, going into Tuesday night, were 4-4-2.