POSTGAME 5: Stars Outshine Flyers, 3-1

The Philadelphia Flyers remain winless in the 2022 calendar year. On Monday at the Wells Fargo Center, the Flyers fell to the Dallas Stars, 3-1. The loss extended the Flyers' winless streak to 12 straight games (0-9-3).

Roope Hintz (18th goal of the season) .put Dallas ahead, 1-0, on a breakaway goal late in the first period. Ivan Provorov (5th) got a friendly bounce of the puck to tie the game at 1-1 in the middle stages of the second period.
In the third period, Jacob Peterson restored a 2-1 lead for the Stars at 16;35. Joe Pavelski (17th) then iced the win for Dallas with a long-range empty net goal.
Carter Hart turned in a 33-save performance in a losing cause. Jake Oettinger earned the win in net for Dallas, denying 27 of 28 Philadelphia shots.
There were no penalties called in this game. The entire 60 minutes was played at 5-on-5 except for late in regulation after the Flyers pulled Hart for a 6-on-5.
Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle tied Doug Jarvis for the longest ironman streak in National Hockey League history, suiting up in his 964th consecutive regular season game.
TURNING POINT
The opening two periods were closely played; low-event at times but with pushes in the latter part of each frame. Entering the third period knotted at 1-1, the game was there for the taking by either team.
The Flyers, however, have routinely failed to win such games for the last month, and this one was no exception. One slip, and a shot by Peterson that went off Hart's shoulder and then under the crossbar proved to be the difference.
The Flyes are now 2-19-3 when trailing first in a game.
MELTZER'S TAKE
1) The game's first shot and scoring chance belonged to Dallas captain Jamie Benn on an attempt from center slot. Benn got to his own rebound but put it wide. At 3:30,Joe Pavelski had a takeaway behind the Flyers net and centered in front to Jason Robertson, whose backhander was snuffed out by Hart.The Flyers attacked the net a couple times at the other end but missed the net on their shot attempts. Shots were 3-0 Stars through six minutes. At 6:19, Ivan Provorov's wrist shot from the top of the left circle was blockered out of play by Oettinger as the Flyers were credited with their first shot on goal. The Flyers missed the net on four of their first eight shot attempts and Dallas blocked three others.
The line of Gerry Mayhew, Morgan Frost and Max Willman was able to work the puck into the Dallas end on a couple of shifts and forechecked decently but the trio was unable to put shot opportunities on net. As a team, the Flyers were outshot, 7-3, through 15 minutes. At 14:57, Travis Sanheim was stopped from close range.
Dallas took a 1-0 lead at 17:46 on a counterattacking breakaway goal. Along the right boards in the attack zone, Travis Konecny attempted to go back to the right point. The puck was then poked past Oskar Lindblom and Rasmus Ristolainen -- both of whom were going after the same player -- by Jason Robertson. Hintz picked it up in the neutral zone and had a clean breakaway. Hintz then snapped a five-hole shot past Hart.
The Frost line generated pressure again in the final minute of the first period. Ristolainen went to the net to receive a centering pass but was unable to convert it. In the final 10 seconds, Cam Atkinson broke up a point-blank scoring chance for Hintz.
2) First period shots on goal were 10-7 in Dallas' favor, with shot attempts split evenly at 15-15. Overall scoring chances were 8-7 Dallas but the Flyers had a 4-2 high-danger edge (with Dallas converting the Hintz breakaway). Credited hits were 12-6 Flyers with Travis Konecny,Zack MacEwen, Frost and Willman registering two apiece. Dallas' Joel Kiviraanta led all players with three. The Stars won 11 of 18 faceoffs, led by Tyler Seguin going 4-for-5. Scott Laughton won four of five for the Flyers. Twelve of the Flyers 17 shots on goal through two periods came from the bottom six (including 4 for Mayhew) or the D (including Provorov's goal).
3) The Flyers had two of the second period's first three shots through 4:10 of largely uneventful play. At 5:32, Atkinson deflected a shot on net that Oettinger fought off. The sequence started off promisingly as a counterattack with a forward (Benn) back in a defensive position for Dallas.
Shots were 4-3 Dallas through the first 10 minutes of the middle frame. Oskar Lindblom made a good defensive stop at the blueline on Miro Heiskanen near the 11-minute mark. Shortly thereafter, Giroux bobbled the puck on a potential 2-on-1 rush. James van Riemsdyk fired wide of the net on a center-slot shot attempt. Keith Yandle was stopped by Oettinger from the side of the net a few moments later.
The Flyers tied the score at 1-1 at the 12:06 mark. Laughton won a right circle draw. Flyers retained possession. Lindblom went toward the net and Provorov's shot from left boards deflected into the net off John Klingberg's skate. The assists went to Konecny and Braun.

With 4:52 left in the second period, the Dallas forecheck produced a Robertson backhander from the left slot. Hart made the save and held for a stoppage.
As time ticked down near and then under 3:00 remaining, the Jackson Cates line got hemmed in the defensive zone but Dallas was confined to the perimeter. In the final 90 seconds, the Frost line generated a scramble near the Dallas net. With 53 second remaining, Robertson accidentally knocked off Hart's catching glove.
4) Second period shots were 13-10 Dallas, with most of the action taking place in the latter half of the period. The Flyers had 20 of the combined 38 shots attempted in the period (54.9 percent team Corsi).High-danger chances were 5-4 Flyers. The Flyers won 13 of 20 faceoffs in the middle frame (20 of 38 through two periods). Ristolainen led all skaters with five hits through 40 minutes and Provorov led both teams with three blocked shots.
5) The Flyers iced the puck two in the opening 2:08 of the third period. The game;s first sign of hostilities -- a post-whistle scum in the Philly zone 3:03 -- did not result in any penalties as it calmed down quickly. The Stars had three of the period's first four shots through 5:30.
With under 8 minutes to play, James van Riemsdyk intercepted a puck at the Dallas blueline. After a pass from Atkinson, JVR was denied from the left slot by Oettinger. At the other end, Hart tracked an Esa Lindell point shot and made the stop.
With 9:05 on the clock, Heiskanen found room to pinch down, untouched, to the right slot. Hart made a sprawling glove save to keep the score at 1-1. Shortly thereafter, Atkinson subsequently blocked a Damiani attempt.
At 13:46, Oettonger gloved down a Laughton shot from the top of the left circle after a Stars' turnover in the neutral zone. On the next shift, the Stars had a favorable matchup -- Seguin's line against Jackson Cates' line -- but Philly got through it without Dallas creating anything of note.
The Giroux line followed against the Benn line.Giroux lost a defensive right circle faceoff and the Dallas D pinched aggressively but no harm resulted.... yet.
At 17:39, after Cates fell down, the Stars' Peterson fired a left slot shot off Hart's shoulder and under the crossbar for a 2-1 Stars lead. The assists went to Alexander Radulov and Ryan Suter.
The Flyers pulled Hart for an extra attacker. At 18:23, Pavlelski scored an empty-netter from near the defensive blueline. The assists went to Hintz and Lindell. The Flyers pulled Hart again, but no further scoring or scoring chances ensued.
Third period shots were 13-10 Stars. The Flyers generated only a single true high-danger scoring chance while the Stars had five.