Logan Cooley scored the go-ahead goal during a hectic second period as the Utah Hockey Club won 4-2 against the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.
Michael Carcone, Juuso Valimaki, and Kevin Stenlund also scored for Utah, which has now won two consecutive games for the first time since starting the season 3-0. Jaxson Stauber made 21 saves to help secure the win.
Joel Farabee and Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers, who lost their third game in a row. Philadelphia goalie Samuel Ersson, who had been out for almost a month due to a lower-body injury, returned to the net and made 21 saves.
The teams combined for five goals in just 8:29 during the second period.
Carcone scored first when his shot was saved by Ersson, but the puck then bounced off the skate of Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen and went into the net.
Farabee quickly responded just 19 seconds later, knocking in a loose puck after Nick Seeler’s shot got past Stauber. This was Farabee’s first goal since Nov. 9.
Less than two and a half minutes later, Valimaki tipped Mikhail Sergachev’s shot past Ersson for his first goal of the season.
Tippett answered for the Flyers with a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that went in through traffic for his eighth goal of the season.
However, the Flyers’ momentum didn’t last long. The visitors tied the game with a power-play goal less than two minutes later. Dylan Guenther made a perfect pass to Cooley in front of the net, and Cooley quickly switched to his backhand to beat Ersson for his seventh goal of the season.
Philadelphia thought they had tied the game 3-3 early in the third period, but Utah challenged the play, and the goal was ruled no good due to goalie interference.
Despite the reversal, the Flyers got a late power play with a chance to tie the game. However, Morgan Frost lost control of the puck during an offensive rush, and Stenlund scored on a breakaway to seal the victory for Utah.
