Sanheim lifts Flyers past Senators in OT

PHILADELPHIA -- Travis Sanheim scored at 1:35 of overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 win against the Ottawa Senators at Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.

Joel Farabee scored the game-tying goal in the third period for Philadelphia (12-12-5) in his first game back after missing seven with a shoulder injury. Oskar Lindblom had a goal and an assist, and Martin Jones made 28 saves.
The Flyers are 4-0-1 in their past five games after going 0-8-2 in their previous 10.
"I think we're playing better as a team," Lindblom said. "Not our best game but found a way to come back. After that 10-game losing streak we had to do something and we're playing way better here."
Alex Formenton had a goal and an assist, and Tim Stutzle and Artem Zub scored for Ottawa (9-17-2). Anton Forsberg made 34 saves.
"We weren't ready to play when the game started," Senators coach D.J. Smith said. "That's probably as bad a 10-minute stretch as we've had in a long time, just flat, and then we built a little momentum at the end of the first. Second period we had tons of looks, lot of energy and then we get the lead, then with six minutes to go we get a real tough bounce there. And then unfortunately we lose in overtime."
Philadelphia won it when Cam Atkinson jumped on a loose puck in the Senators zone to create a 2-on-0 that Sanheim finished.

Sanheim extended his point streak to three games (two goals, two assists). He scored five points, all assists, in his first 26 games.
"You can see in the offensive zone taking the extra second to make right plays, holding onto pucks rather than throwing them away," he said. "When I'm doing that I'm at my best."
Flyers coach Mike Yeo said Sanheim's confidence is obvious.
"I think the thing for 'Sany' is his skating ability, what that allows him to do both offensively and defensively," he said. "We talked at the beginning of the year, we told him we felt this was a year he could bust through, as far as he's come to an age [25] in the NHL where he's ready to take another step and he's doing that."
Claude Giroux put the Flyers ahead 1-0 at 4:19 when he scored from the slot. The goal gave him 883 points (284 goals, 599 assists), tied with Bill Barber for second in Flyers history behind Bobby Clarke (1,210).

Lindblom made it 2-0 at 7:32. He jumped on the ice while the Flyers were cycling in the Senators zone and one-timed a pass from Travis Konecny that deflected off the stick of Ottawa defenseman Thomas Chabot and past Forsberg.
The Senators tied the game on goals by Stutzle and Formenton in a span of 1:13 early in the second period.
Stutzle took a pass from Formenton on the rush, cut wide around defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, and scored from in close over Jones' blocker to make it 2-1 at 2:09.
Formenton stole the puck from defenseman Keith Yandle at center ice, broke in alone on Jones, and scored shorthanded to tie it 2-2 at 3:22.

Senators forward Brady Tkachuk said he felt they started to take some of the momentum back in the final few minutes of the first period, which helped them start fast in the second.
"Things were maybe said to wash that first period but we wanted to have a way better start [to the second] than we did the first period," he said. "I thought we did that as a group. "[Stutzle], [Connor] Brown and 'Formy,' they got us going there."
Ottawa took a 3-2 lead at 13:43 of the third period on Zub's one-timer from the blue line.
Philadelphia tied it 3-3 at 14:35 on Farabee's goal from a sharp angle on the left side.
"Their third goal goes in and I don't think one guy panicked on our bench," Farabee said. "We had six minutes or so to go and got right back to work and popped the next one. And to win it in OT felt good."
NOTES: It was the first game between the teams since Dec. 21, 2019. ... Chabot played an NHL-high 35:39. ... Provorov played his 400th NHL game, all consecutively. He's the eighth player to start his NHL career with at least 400 consecutive games played with one team. ... Konecny had two assists.