PHILADELPHIA — Just when the Flyers couldn’t afford to give up a goal, netminder Carter Hart stood tall and kept his team in the fight.
After winger Travis Konecny handed the puck over to forechecking Vancouver Canucks winger Nils Hoglander behind the net with the Flyers down, 2-0, Hart managed a momentum-shifting, sprawling right-pad save on winger Andrei Kuzmenko to keep the Canucks from going up by three. The Flyers scored twice in the second period to tie their game on Saturday afternoon at the Wells Fargo Center, giving way to Konecny’s game-winner with just over six minutes to play for a 3-2 final score.
While Hart gave up an early goal from defenseman Kyle Burroughs, whose shot clipped the skate of defenseman Nick Seeler, he finished strong. In total, Hart denied 27 of 29 shots. The Canucks challenged Hart in the third period and even had a two-man advantage in the final two minutes of the game, but Hart hung in there.
