The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 at Rogers Arena on Monday night, and the San Jose Sharks edged the New York Islanders 3-2 in a shootout, in the late games of a three-game NHL slate.
Michael Bunting opened the scoring for Philadelphia at 2:03 of the first period, assisted by Christian Dvorak and Nick Seeler, and Travis Konecny extended the lead to 2-0 at 3:05 of the second on the power play, according to SportsFBI and Sportradar. Jonathan Lekkerimaki pulled one back for Vancouver at 12:44 of the third, but Travis Sanheim sealed the win with an empty-net goal at 19:01.
Joseph Woll stopped 18 of 19 shots for the Flyers, and Dvorak finished with two assists. The Canucks’ miserable start to the season continued — they have won just three games all season — while the Flyers took a valuable road win.
Eight rounds in San Jose
In San Jose, the Sharks and Islanders could not be separated in 65 minutes, and the game went to a shootout that lasted eight rounds — the longest in the NHL this season. Ivar Stenberg scored the lone goal of the shootout to settle a goaltending duel between Ilya Sorokin and Yaroslav Askarov, according to NHL.com.
Ben Hutton scored his first goal as an Islander, and Victor Eklund extended his goal streak to three games with a power-play tally. Stenberg and Tyler Toffoli scored for San Jose in regulation, twice erasing Islanders leads. The Islanders earned a point for the second straight game, but their winless stretch reached four games.
What comes next
The Islanders continue their three-game California road trip against the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night. Vancouver, meanwhile, must find answers quickly — their season is slipping away before November is out.
