PHILADELPHIA — Everyone wearing orange in the Wells Fargo Center was sleepy Sunday afternoon. The fans were quiet and the Flyers were sluggish as they dropped their third straight game, this one a 5-1 loss to the Dallas Stars.
The Flyers came out with a brief burst of energy, but the reserves seemed to run out within three minutes, leading to the Stars’ first goal. As the Stars flipped it up the ice, Tony DeAngelo came out to defend the puck carrier, stopping hopes of a breakaway but failing to kill the play. Ivan Provorov covered the other man coming down the other side of the ice. But a third Star, Matej Blumel, was left open and came right up the center of the ice for a goal at 2 minutes, 36 seconds.
The Flyers gave the Stars another great scoring chance late in the first period. The Stars took the puck behind the net and a battle ensued. All the Flyers’ eyes were turned toward the battle, and when they lost it, they couldn’t get back to stop the low-to-high pass that turned into an Esa Lindell goal from the point.
