POSTGAME 5: A Tipp-ing Point in OT Win

The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets in overtime, 4-3, at the Wells Fargo Center in the Flyers' final home game of the 2022-23 season. Owen Tippett notched the OT winner after previously tallying a power play goal. In the first period, James van Riemsdyk tallied his 300th career NHL regular season goal.

For the Flyers, Tuesday's win was only the team's second overtime win (and fourth win beyond regulation) of the 2022-23 season.
Columbus grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first period on a Liam Foudy rebound goal (7th) at 9:47 and a Liam Foudy goal from the circle at 12:43 after a Philadelphia turnover. The Flyers got the next two goals. Joel Farabee (15th) scored from the middle to finish off a three-way passing sequence with Travis Konecny and Morgan Frost at 14:59. JVR (12th) fired home a shot from the right circle at 15:33 to forge a 2-2 tie the teams took into the second period.
The Flyers dominated puck possession in the second period and Owen Tippett (25th) bagged a power play goal just 47 seconds into the frame. However, Philly was able to add to their 3-2 lead in the middle frame.
In the third period, Sean Kuraly deflection power play goal (11th) re-tied the game at the 5:50 mark.
Carter Hart earned the win in net for the Flyers. He stopped 28 of 31 shots. For Columbus, Michael Hutchinson made 35 saves on 39 shots.
The Flyers went 1-for-3 on the power play. The Blue Jackets also were 1-for-3.
Young defenseman Adam Ginning made his NHL debut on Tuesday evening. He skated 16:40 of ice time across 21 shifts. The Swedish blueliner was credited with two hits and two blocked shots.
Rocky Thompson was behind the bench for the Flyers in this game. Assistant video coach Vinny Yula was also on the bench with the coaching staff for the first time. Tortorella watched the game from the pressbox.
Prior to the game, the Flyers announced the winners of the annual team awards.

FLYERS STARTING LINEUP
13 Kevin Hayes - 49 Noah Cates - 74 Owen Tippett
86 Joel Farabee - 48 Morgan Frost - 11 Travis Konecny
25 James van Riemsdyk - 21 Scott Laughton - 57 Wade Allison
22 Brendan Lemieux - 58 Tanner Laczynski - 44 Nicolas Deslauriers
9 Ivan Provorov - 45 Cam York
6 Travis Sanheim - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
50 Adam Ginning - 61 Justin Braun
79 Carter Hart
[32 Felix Sandström]
TURNING POINT
As they've done since mid-December. the Flyers went 1F/2D in overtime. Later, on a 2F/1D shift, Cates had a chance. Tippett hit the post and, finally, later in the shift, scored to end the game with 15.5 seconds left in overtime. The assists went to Provorov and York at 4:44.
Final shot totals were 39-31 in the Flyers' favor. Shot attempts were 68-54 Flyers. Scoring chances finished at 39-25 Flyers, with an 18-9 high-danger chance edge to the Flyers.
MELTZER'S TAKE
1) Joel Farabee, set up by Frost, had a scoring chance on the first shift of the game. At 3:03, Johnson went to the net and tipped a puck wide. At 5:00, Cates created an opportunity for Tippett. Shots were 3-3 through 6:30.
The Blue Jackets grabbed a 1-0 lead at 9:47. Carson Meyer received a long bank pass and attacked on the right wing. Hart made the stop on the initial shot but was somewhat handcuffed. Foudy potted the rebound on the backhand. The assists went to Meyer and Tim Berni.
Columbus opened a 2-0 lead at 12:43, Cates turned the puck over high in the defensive zone to Fix-Wolansky. The Columbus winger skated into the left circle and wristed a shot that beat Hart to the short side. The goal was unassisted.
Farabee drew the Flyers within 2-1 at 14:59. Ginning dumped the puck in deep and Frost won it behind the net to move along the boards to Konecny. TK then centered the puck to an open Farabee in the slot, who finessed a five-hole shot past Hutchinson for the goal. The assists went to Konecny and Frost.
The Flyers nearly tied the game on the next shift after the Farabee goal. Hutchinson turned aside a high tip from Cates.
At 15:33, the Flyers drew even at 2-2. Laughton won a left circle faceoff cleanly to Provorov. Moving on and finding space, Provorov sent a pass over to van Riemsdyk in the right circle. From there, JVR fired home his milestone 300th goal. The assists went to Provorov and Laughton.
At 17:07, Josh Dunne grabbed on to van Riemsdyk and a grappling match ensued in the Columbus zone. Laughton came in to defend JVR, but Dunne only wanted at van Riemsdyk. Coincidental minors were called -- Dunne for holding, JVR for roughing -- and two minutes of 4-on-4 play ensued.
At 18:54, the Flyers received the game's first power play. Farabee claimed a long-distance bouncing flip shot that rebounded off goalie Hutchinson. The Flyers took 54 seconds of 5-on-4 carryover power play time into the second period.
2) First period shots were 15-9 Blue Jackets. Shot attempts were 31-17 Flyers. Scoring chances were 18-9 Flyers with 7-4 high-danger edge to Philly. Faceoffs were 11-5 Flyers.
3) Farabee had a chance in the early moments of the carryover power play. At the 47-second mark, the Flyers took at 3-2 lead. Tippett moved down the left-wing wall, powered the puck to the net and, moving smoothly from backhand to forehand, scored. The assists went to Cates and Ristolainen on the power play goal.
Frost was set up in the slot by Konecny but Hutchinson made the save on a backhander at 5:32. It was the goalie's second prime-range stop of the period on Frost, having made one earlier at 1:04 on a wrister from the middle slot.
Through 6:31, shots were 8-5 Flyers. At 9:24, Konecny found Ginning pinching in on the other side. Ginning was unable to find the net. Provorov rang a shot off the post at 12:40, and Hutchinson gloved down a York point blast at 13:10.
The Flyers near went offside on a 3-on-2 rush,but managed to regroup enough to generate a Konecny shot on goal from up high in the attack zone at 14:34. Shots on goal were 12-6 Flyers.
With 2:05 left in the second period, Hart fought off traffic to track a point shot to his glove. It was Columbus' 17th shot for the game.
The Blue Jackets were called for too many men on the ice at 18:50. The Flyers went to their second power play. Seventeen seconds into the power play, moments after a scramble near the net, Konecny was called for an offensive zone hooking penalty.
4) Second period shots on goal were 16-8 Flyers. Shot attempts were 21-12 Flyers. Scoring chances were 12-5 Flyers with a 4-1 high-danger edge to Philly. Through two periods, faceoffs were 16-15 Flyers.
5) Fifty seconds remained on the Columbus bench minor and 1:07 was left on the Konecny penalty heading into the third period. As the Columbus abbreviated power play started, Johnny Gaudreau had a scoring chance from the left circle.
At 2:37, Ginning was called for holding behind the Flyers net. With 53 seconds left on the penalty (3:34 mark), Kirill Marchenko was called for interference. At 4:20, with the teams at 4-on-4, York lost the puck in an exchange with Hayes and was called for a hooking penalty on the backcheck.
During the ensuing brief 4-on-4, Hart denied a Foudy shot. On the power play at 5:40, Christiansen unleased a point shot into traffic. From in front of the net, Kuraly tipped it home. Hart had no chance of a save. The assists went to Kuraly and Gaudreau.
Ginning turned over the puck in the slot midway through the third period but the Flyers escaped damage. Shots on goal were 6-2 Columbus through 11:18. Laughton had a bang-bang scoring chance directly off a Columbus turnover on the next shift.
Konecny got high-sticked in the defensive corner and the Flyers went back to the power play at 14:06 of the third period. Meyer went to the box. JVR narrowly missed a deflection goal chance off a Laughton shot.
With 2:35 left in regulation, a promising Flyers' rush was short-circuited by an offside. At the other end of the ice, Hart was able to find a David Jiricek point shot. A Frost stick check at 18:19 disrupted Columbus into an offside.
Third period shots were 11-6 Columbus. Third period shot attempts were 22-12 Columbus. Scoring chances were 9-7 Blue Jackets with an even 3-3 split in high-danger chances.