Michkov dazzles once more and a bubble ahead has robust sport in OT preseason win

Michkov dazzles again and a bubble forward has strong game in OT preseason win initially appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Because of a Matvei Michkov extra time winner, the Flyers picked up a 3-2 choice Saturday evening over the Bruins in preseason motion on the Wells Fargo Heart.

It was Michkov’s second aim of the sport. Rasmus Ristolainen scored the Flyers’ different marker, whereas Travis Konecny and Olle Lycksell had two-point video games.

Assistant coaches Brad Shaw, Rocky Thompson and Darryl Williams and abilities coach Angelo Ricci led the Flyers’ bench for a second straight sport. John Tortorella watched from upstairs with president of hockey operations Keith Jones and common supervisor Danny Briere.

Michkov, Oliver Bonk and Jett Luchanko, the Flyers’ three first-rounders over the past two drafts, had been all within the lineup.

The Flyers are 3-1-0 within the preseason and have three video games to go.

• After showing the full repertoire Thursday in his first sport motion on the Wells Fargo Heart, Michkov adopted it up together with his OT winner and an influence play aim on the doorstep. Because the Flyers have famous, he is not afraid to go to the onerous areas and rating those that are not as fairly.

The 19-year-old winger performed on his off wing alongside Konecny and Sean Couturier. The membership’s energy play went 1 for 7 however Michkov has made it look extra harmful a minimum of.

The Flyers have liked his daring stye of playmaking. They’re going to work with him on the stuff away from the puck.

“Are we going to beat him over the top with it? No, as a result of we’re ravenous for the kind of performs that he could make, the instinctive performs that he could make,” Tortorella stated Friday. “I don’t wish to overload him. We’re actually going to show him alongside the best way, particularly situational play. … We’re not going to attempt to stifle him in any means so far as his creativity.”

By way of three exhibition video games, Michkov has three targets, three assists and a plus-4 mark. He additionally scored a aim in his one rookie game a little over two weeks ago at PPL Center.

“I feel we’re simply beginning to see what he is about,” Couturier stated. “It is positively thrilling.”

• Within the first interval, Michkov noticed Couturier come to his protection. The younger Russian was being antagonized by Billy Sweezey, so the Flyers’ captain swooped in and dropped the gloves with the Bruins’ defenseman.

Great things from Couturier to set a precedent there.

“Gigantic,” Shaw stated. “That is how groups are constructed, it is a brotherhood, you are taking part in for each other. Absolute good management at the moment.”

The subsequent interval, Hunter McDonald then had Michkov’s again in a scrum across the internet.

“I feel we have to determine that early, not let ourselves get pushed round,” Couturier stated. “What I appreciated about [Michkov] is he simply stored going.”

• Lycksell was superb. He collected two major assists and was the Flyers’ most lively ahead offensively.

The 25-year-old is vying to open the season with the large membership as a depth ahead and helped his trigger Saturday evening.

• Luchanko was again with Joel Farabee and Bobby Brink, a line that looked awfully good in the Flyers’ preseason opener.

The 2024 first-round heart went scoreless and has had a little bit of a drop-off offensively. However he has skated quite a bit for the reason that begin of rookie camp, simply turned 18 years outdated final month and the Flyers are excessive on his future.

“There’s upside in virtually each factor of his sport,” Shaw stated Saturday after morning skate. “He is an thrilling man, at his age, for what he has carried out right here the final couple of weeks. He has opened lots of people’s eyes and he has confirmed that he will be a formidable participant at each ends of the rink for so long as he performs.

“He’ll be an awesome penalty killer as a result of he can skate. His instincts are off the charts, he is solely going to get stronger, he is solely going to get smarter. That mixture, that is a reasonably engaging factor to consider two, three years down the highway.”

• Ivan Fedotov made his second preseason look and performed his first full sport, stopping 25 of 27 photographs.

On Boston’s game-opening first-period aim, Jamie Drysdale had a turnover that stored the Bruins within the offensive zone. Hampus Lindholm then fired residence a shot from distance which will have deflected off of Drysdale’s stick.

Boston regained its lead at 2-1 within the second interval with a shorthanded breakaway snipe.

Fedotov, the Flyers’ projected backup, has made 35 saves on 39 photographs via 5 exhibition durations.

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• A few notes on two of the Flyers’ youthful defensemen:

McDonald did some good issues to interrupt up performs and was his bodily self.

Bonk positively sees the sport at a excessive stage. He made a handful of refined however efficient reads on the puck within the offensive zone.

• The Flyers are scheduled to be off Sunday earlier than resuming camp and the preseason slate Monday.

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