Bruins rally in third, defeat Flyers in shootout

BOSTON -- The Boston Bruins scored four goals in the third period and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 5-4 in the shootout at TD Garden on Thursday.

Jake DeBrusk scored the only goal of the shootout, and Tuukka Rask made 22 saves for the Bruins (2-1-1), including five in overtime. Boston trailed 2-0 and 3-2 in the third period but won for the first time in three games (1-1-1).
"It was great to see them respond," Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said. "I mean, it's in the room. What was addressed after the second period was essentially we're too easy to play against offensively. We're a hard team to play against defensively, I think we're willing to play the right way, but offensively, we were too easy to play against. So we discussed the couple of ways we can get better, be harder to play against and maybe in a little more forceful manner, so hopefully the message gets across."
James van Riemsdyk scored two goals, and Jakub Voracek had three assists for the Flyers (3-1-1). Carter Hart made 39 saves.

"We should have put the game away in overtime," Voracek said. "We had three or four Grade A chances. Unfortunately, Rask stopped them. And obviously shootout is shootout."
Rask's best two saves in overtime were on a backhand by Voracek in close at 1:29 and against a wrist shot by Kevin Hayes at 3:55.
"The first one, I mean, I saw Voracek was all by himself in the front of the net," Rask said. "The [defenseman] (Travis Sanheim) kind of shot a floater in there. [Voracek] made a good play just trying to tip it in my five-hole, and the rebound was lying there, so I just tried to get extended as much as possible, and I think it happened to hit my glove there.
"And then the second one, you see that develop. The guy was kind of slowing it down on the wing, and [Hayes] was driving the net wide and made a good play, but I just happened to extend my leg there."
The teams will play again Saturday in Boston.
Travis Konecny scored on the power play to give the Flyers a 1-0 lead at 6:17 of the second period. It was his fifth goal, tied for the NHL lead with Tyler Toffoli of the Montreal Canadiens and Bo Horvat of the Vancouver Canucks, and the first power-play goal allowed by the Bruins this season after 15 straight kills.
Van Riemsdyk made it 2-0 at 17:31.
Jack Studnicka scored his first NHL goal to cut the lead to 2-1 57 seconds into the third period. It was the first 5-on-5 goal of the season for the Bruins.

"It's obviously a very exciting night for myself," Studnicka said. "Great to get the win, so that adds on to that."
Charlie Coyle tied the game 2-2 at 2:06.
Sanheim put Philadelphia back in front, 3-2 at 7:13. Voracek had an assist on the goal for his 700th NHL point.
Nick Ritchie scored a power-play goal at 13:22 to tie it 3-3.
Brandon Carlo scored at 15:18 to give Boston a 4-3 lead, but van Riemsdyk tied it 4-4 with a power-play goal at 16:28.
"You know what, I knew it was going to be a hard game," Flyers coach Alain Vigneault said. "The Bruins, they were the best in the NHL in the regular season last year, and they got a great team. They hadn't scored a lot, I knew that they'd come at us hard, they did. We were up 2-0 after two periods, they had a strong push. There were some moments in this game that I really liked. I liked the fact that our power play at a critical time scored a goal, enabled us to get a point."
NOTES: Flyers defenseman Mark Friedman left the game at 9:49 of the second period after a collision with Bruins forward Brad Marchand. Vigneault said Friedman was fine after the game. Friedman had one shot on goal in 5:35 making his season debut with defenseman Philippe Myers week to week with a broken rib. … Boston defenseman Matt Grzelcyk left the game because of injury in the second period but returned for one shift before the intermission. He played 6:14 in the third but not at all in overtime. Cassidy said that was because Grzelcyk was playing through discomfort.