Phillip Danault
Before embarking on a West coast trip, the Flyers get right back on the ice on Saturday night against the Los Angeles Kings.
The Flyers meet the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night for their final home game prior to the All-Star break.
Noah Cates picked up a short-handed goal with 6:59 left in the third period to lift the Flyers to a 4-2 win over the Kings on Saturday afternoon.
The Flyers take the ice for the final time in 2022, facing off against the Los Angeles Kings on New Year’s Eve.
The Flyers try to avoid a 14th straight defeat and a winless month of January against the same team that they opened the month again, the Los Angeles Kings.
The law of averages essentially caught up to the Flyers. Out of the break, they were lucky to get a win in Seattle and stole a point in San Jose. Deservedly, they have nothing to show for a defeat that featured more sloppy play, more poor puck management, and continued lapses in defensive coverage.
The Kings turned in a dominant performance on Saturday night with a 6-3 victory to snap the Flyers seven-game points streak.
A short trip from San Jose to Los Angeles marks the next stop on this post-holiday road trip, as the Flyers try to extend the points streak to eight games against the Kings.
Ilya Kovalchuk entered the game with five points in six games with the Canadiens and added two more with a pair of goals as the Flyers were stymied by Carey Price and fell to the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1, on Thursday night at Wells Fargo Center.
Fresh off a 3-1-0 stretch against four of the top six teams in the league, the Flyers face a team outside the playoff picture in the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night.
