Matvei Michkov and Travis Konecny both scored during regulation and again in the shootout as the Philadelphia Flyers, who almost let a three-goal lead slip away, beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 on Monday.
Erik Johnson also scored for the Flyers, while Samuel Ersson made 28 saves in goal. Michkov, who had been a healthy scratch in the Flyers’ last two games, finished with a goal and an assist before scoring the important goal in the shootout.
Jack Thompson, Mikael Granlund, and Barclay Goodrow scored for the Sharks, who had won five of their last seven games. Vitek Vanecek made 40 saves for San Jose.
In the shootout, both teams missed their first attempts. Then, Michkov pulled off a great backhand-to-forehand move to score. After Ersson stopped the Sharks’ next shooter, Konecny scored the winning goal, dragging the puck on his forehand and then flipping it under the crossbar.
The Flyers got off to a fast start, scoring twice in the first period. Johnson opened the scoring at 1:40 with his first goal of the season. Then, with just over four minutes left in the period, Konecny made it 2-0 with a power-play goal.
Emil Andrae passed to Michkov, who fed Konecny for a blast from the right circle that beat Vanecek.
Michkov made it 3-0 at 5:09 of the second period when he got behind the defense and slipped a shot past Vanecek. San Jose started to fight back later in the second period.
With about 4 1/2 minutes left, William Eklund’s pass deflected off Thompson’s skate and went past Ersson to get the Sharks on the board. Three minutes later, Eklund set up Granlund at the right faceoff dot, and Granlund fired a wrister that beat Ersson to make it 3-2.
The score stayed 3-2 until Goodrow tied it up with 2:24 left in the third period. Henry Thrun’s shot from the left point hit the right side of the net, where Goodrow was waiting to put it past Ersson.
San Jose started overtime with a two-minute 4-on-3 power play after Michkov was called for roughing at the end of regulation. Ersson made several key saves during the penalty kill.
Vanecek also came up with some big stops late in overtime, including saves on Andrae and Michkov, which sent the game to a shootout.
