Highlights Beyond Highlights- Nov. 15 at Carolina

The Flyers blocked 30 shots in the game and have blocked a total of 50 over the last two contests against LA and Carolina. Fourteen of the Flyers’ 18 skaters blocked at least one shot, with Ryan Poehling and Travis Sanheim leading the way with four each.  A couple particularly timely ones are here, the first from Louie Belpedio and the second from Sanheim.

Carolina’s penalty kill had been deadly over their last several games, but the Flyers did an admirable job of killing off three Hurricane power plays. Carolina only managed a total of two shots on goal on the three opportunities. The kills featured several strong segments of play, such as this one where Poehling and Garnet Hathaway ate up the final 30 seconds of the first Carolina advantage.

More hard work from Hathaway led to this scoring opportunity and three subsequent offensive zone faceoffs.  Hathaway and Noah Cates are complete pests on this sequence, in particular Hathaway who is in the zone 1-on-5 until the rest of his line arrives.  It could have been an easy regroup for the Hurricanes, but it became anything but that.  This is the kind of sequence that is starting to be representative of Flyers hockey this season.

Travis Konecny’s own forecheck set the stage for his goal, as he outworked Brett Pesce to dig the puck out from behind the net and get it out to the point.  That started an effective cycle, kept alive twice each by Sean Walker and Sean Couturier. That kind of movement gets an opponent’s five-man coverage scrambly, and if that goes on long enough, eventually an opportunity will arise. That’s what happened for Konecny, who saw the seas part around him for an unbothered re-direction of a Nick Seeler shot to post Philadelphia’s second tally.