Tomas Hertl
Last week, it was already known that the President’s Trophy winners, the Tampa Bay Lightning, were eliminated, as were the Pittsburgh Penguins. Six other teams have joined, and many of them were near the top of the regular-season standings.
Joe Thornton scored to tie the game with 4:57 left in regulation and Timo Meier scored his second goal of the game just 13 seconds into overtime in a 4-3 Flyers loss to the San Jose Sharks on Saturday night.
It was just under a month ago that the San Jose Sharks came into Wells Fargo Center and embarrassed the Flyers in their home opener to the tune of an 8-2 drubbing. The two teams meet again in San Jose on Saturday night.
The Sharks scored at 3:17 of the first period, then scored again 11 seconds later. By the end of the first period, the rout was on as San Jose struck four times in the opening 20 minutes in a 8-2 laugher over the Flyers on Tuesday night at Wells Fargo Center.
The Flyers play host to the San Jose Sharks for their home opener on Tuesday night at 7 p.m.
The Sharks will be without Logan Couture for Monday's game against the Flyers. (Photo Courtesy of ESPN.com) After their loss to the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday to open the current three-game road trip, the Philadelphia Flyers certainly got a boost with a shutout win in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon. Now the road trip concludes […]