Coming off a 5-0 defeat at the hands of the Blues in St. Louis Thursday night, the Flames spent the last few days meeting amongst themselves, desperate for a way to snap out of their current funk.
During their recent play, they'd been generating tons of shots and chances, often times more than the opposition.
Still, they had been shut out in three of their last four games heading into the matinee tilt with the Flyers.
Coach Bill Peters broke down their issues Friday, giving his top two priorities to get back in the win column.
"Let's get on the board in the first period, let's be good on the speciality teams," he explained.
They weren't able to accomplish either in Philly, going 0-3 on the powerplay,
But, at the end of the day, it may not have been the prettiest game but the two points and the victory came at an essential time for a team struggling.
They don't ask how, after all, just how many.
There weren't a lot of shots early in the game.
In fact, each side only had three at the halfway point of the opening frame.
But the ones they did get were solid chances.
Mark Jankowski found himself in a prime scoring spot a minute-and-a-half in, Hart able to squeeze his arm to his body to stop an in-tight backhand attempt.
Later, Travis Konecny had the puck near the hash marks and took two strides in close but right as he was set to snap it, Noah Hanifin lifted his stick from behind to negate the chance.
Not long after, Rittich came up huge, getting across to his left to deny a tip one-timer from Claude Grioux on a great cross-crease pass from rookie Morgan Cross.
Dillon Dube went hunting for the first goal hard to the side of Hart as he tried to jam the puck in amid a pile up of bodies, getting a few pokes at it.
Early in the second period, Zac Rinaldo tipped a point-shot by Mark Giordano that went across the crease instead of behind Hart.
Then came an absolutely incredible play by Andrew Mangiapane, who took a pass at full stride going wide into the Philly zone, then pulling the puck around Phillipe Myers and cutting hard across the crease, and wrapping it around the outstretched right pad of Hart, the puck hitting the post and rebounding out and under Hart.
