What goes around doesn’t always come around in the divine art of puck luck, but redemption worked in eerily parallel ways for Artturi Lehkonen on Tuesday night.
His shorthanded goal with 4:56 remaining in the second period gave the Avalanche the lead for good in a tense 3-2 win over the Flyers at Ball Arena.
It was Lehkonen’s second game back from a concussion that sidelined him for a week. In his first game back, Colorado was on the power play late in the third period, seeking to break a 1-1 tie in St. Louis. But as Lehkonen skated along the boards, he was screened off by an official and lost the puck, which careened toward no-man’s land in the defensive zone. In a race to it, Avalanche forward J.T. Compher slipped and lost a stride on his opponent. Shorthanded goal for a 2-1 deficit.
