Brodie OT goal helps Flames send Flyers to sixth straight loss

PHILADELPHIA -- TJ Brodie scored 1:59 into overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 3-2 victory against the Philadelphia Flyers at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.

Brodie finished a 2-on-1 rush with Matthew Tkachuk, who had scored with 4:17 remaining in the third period to tie the game.
"Took me a second to realize it's a chance at a 2-on-1," Brodie said. "I think they had two guys behind the net and it worked out."
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Johnny Gaudreau also scored for Calgary (26-13-4). Noah Hanifin had two assists and David Rittich, back after missing two games with a lower-body injury, made 32 saves.

Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny scored for Philadelphia (15-20-6), which lost its sixth straight game. Carter Hart made 29 saves.
"It's obviously pretty frustrating," Sanheim said. "Felt like we had control most of the game. A couple breakdowns and that cost us the game."
Their breakdown in overtime came when Weal gave the puck away deep in the Calgary zone and Tkachuk started an odd-man rush. When Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere closed on Tkachuk, it gave him a lane to get the puck to Brodie.

"I was thinking once I hit the blue line I would have a better idea of what I'd be doing," Tkachuk said. "[Gostisbehere] didn't back off, he stayed pretty close to me the whole time, so I had a pretty good idea I was going to bring him in and make him bite for one second, just move his stick a little bit, and then I could hit [Brodie] back door."
The Flyers went ahead 2-1 at 5:57 of the third period when Rittich skated out to try to clear a dump-in but gave it to Konecny, who scored into an empty net from the left circle. It was his 10th goal of the season but first in 14 games.
Tkachuk tied the game 2-2 with a one-timer from the left circle with 4:17 remaining in the third.

"It was a grind (but) we got better as we went," Flames coach Bill Peters said. "Got in our own way a little bit, we took an O-zone penalty, we shot one over the glass and we had a couple too many men on the ice penalties. They've got a good power play, that gave them some momentum, put us on our heels. But we settled in and found a way to get it done."
It's the second time this season the Flyers have led the Flames late in a game but lost in overtime. Philadelphia was ahead 5-3 at Scotiabank Saddledome on Feb. 12 but Calgary scored twice in the final 1:08 of the third period to tie it and Gaudreau scored 35 seconds into overtime for a 6-5 Flames victory.
Sanheim's power-play goal at 12:10 of the first period put the Flyers ahead 1-0. Sanheim was trying to center a pass to a cutting Weal, but the puck went off the skates of a sliding Brodie and over Rittich's right shoulder.
Gaudreau made it 1-1 when he finished a give-and-go with Sean Monahan at 8:51 of the second period. Gaudreau has 11 points (five goals, six assists) during a four-game point streak, and Monahan has nine points (one goal, eight assists) during a four-game point streak.
"Obviously we want to play with the lead," Konecny said. "It's a lot easier that way. It's hard chasing games and it's tough on us as well. We played a pretty solid game tonight."

They said it

"Not a great start for us. I thought we weren't creating too much at the start, not playing solid defensively which usually leads to a lot of our offense. In the second half of the game we definitely picked it up." -- Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk
"That seems like what it's been like the last couple weeks now, something little happens and it just snowballs into a goal against. We've got to play smart 200-foot hockey if we're going to get out of it and [Saturday] wasn't it." -- Flyers forward Jordan Weal

Need to know

Tkachuk has 49 points (19 goals, 30 assists) in 43 games, tying his NHL best from last season, which he accomplished in 68 games. ... Peters will coach the Pacific Division at the 2019 Honda NHL All-Star Game by virtue of the Flames having the highest points percentage in the division at the halfway point of the season. ... It was the 700th road victory for the Flames. ... Flyers forward Nolan Patrick had one shot on goal in 10:25 of ice time after missing the previous four games with an upper-body injury.

What's next

Flames: At the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday (8:30 p.m. ET; NBCSCH, SNW, NHL.TV)
Flyers: Host the St. Louis Blues on Monday (7 p.m. ET; NHLN, SN1, SNE, SNP, NBCSP, FS-MW, NHL.TV)