Kolosov makes NHL debut, would not get a lot assist as Flyers fall to 2-6-1

Kolosov makes NHL debut, doesn’t get much help as Flyers fall to 2-6-1 initially appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia

Aleksei Kolosov could not save the Flyers from their up-and-down play.

John Tortorella’s membership wasn’t sharp or related in any respect and needed to play far an excessive amount of protection in a 4-3 loss Sunday night time to the Canadiens on the Wells Fargo Heart.

Travis Sanheim and Travis Konecny supplied the Flyers’ targets.

Sanheim’s first marker despatched the sport into first intermission tied at 1-1. Then, with the Flyers down 4-1 and below two and a half minutes remaining within the recreation, Sanheim and Konecny struck to make it attention-grabbing.

“This 12 months is the 12 months that the gamers that bought higher final 12 months, the youth, need to get better even more this year,” Tortorella stated. “And we’re form of caught. It surprises me somewhat bit, yeah, however it’s what it’s. The sport’s humorous, the sport’s humorous, you by no means the place it’ll take you.

“I simply need us to not attempt to repair all the pieces. You begin getting right into a panic mode if you’re dropping some video games. We simply have to calm ourselves down and the most important factor is to be collectively up the ice, be collectively coming again into our finish zone and play as a bunch.”

The Flyers (2-6-1) have but to win consecutive video games this season. They missed out on a chance to brush their back-to-back set in Philadelphia this weekend. They snapped a six-game skid Saturday afternoon with a 7-5 win over the Wild.

However they could not construct on it.

“Nobody coming, nobody to dig us out of this, it is the fellows within the room,” Scott Laughton stated. “We have to determine this out fast. Perhaps not the perfect time for it to occur, but it surely’s taking place proper now. We have numerous runway left, however we have got to determine it out.”

The Flyers have given up 4 or extra targets in seven of their 9 video games and are surrendering 4.44 per recreation.

“We’re simply not working as a bunch,” Sanheim stated. “Final 12 months, the rationale we have been so profitable was it was five-man models, one after one other, each line. We had an id, we have been working exhausting. Different groups knew that. Perhaps I suppose that is a part of it, is groups are conscious of our success that we had final 12 months in doing that.

“We simply have to put our heads down, go to work, get to the soiled areas. Final 12 months, we have been throwing pucks from awkward angles and getting these further rebounds. We’re simply not seeing that proper now. It is one thing that we have got to vary fairly shortly as a result of the way in which we’re going, it is not an excellent path.”

Montreal additionally performed Saturday, selecting up a 5-2 house win over the Blues to finish a four-game dropping streak.

The Flyers do not see the Canadiens (4-4-1) once more for some time. They’ve two extra matchups, one on the Wells Fargo Heart on March 27 and the opposite in Montreal on April 5.

“It is making an attempt to only discover it as fast as potential however understanding you can’t get too excessive and you’ll’t get too low,” Garnet Hathaway stated. “You may hear that I believe all through the entire season and I’ve heard it my entire profession. It is by no means nearly as good as you suppose it’s and it is by no means as unhealthy. The extra we discover our roles and the extra we decide one another up is once we’ll go in the fitting course.”

• After a rocky offseason between Kolosov and the Flyers, the 22-year-old goaltending prospect made his NHL debut solely 9 video games into the season. The Belarusian transformed 20 saves on 24 pictures.

“I believed our goalie performed good,” Tortorella stated. “I believed he made some actually good saves.”

The Canadiens by no means trailed within the recreation and outscored the Flyers 3-0 within the second interval.

Kolosov had little to no probability to cease Montreal’s first two targets. The one he in all probability may have prevented was the third, which got here on a Cole Caufield energy play blast. Kolosov had a sight line on the shot and let it squeeze between him and the publish.

On the Canadiens’ fourth objective (and third of the second interval), Kolosov misplaced observe of a damaged move that went to a wide-open Jake Evans beneath the circle.

Related to a saga stemming back to May, Kolosov wasn’t in rookie camp and missed a week-plus of important camp. However after he joined the Flyers, performed a couple of preseason video games and returned to AHL affiliate Lehigh Valley, the scenario has apparently been higher.

“So far as perspective and the place Kolosov’s thoughts is true now, we now have gotten good stories so far as how he has gone about his enterprise down there,” Tortorella stated earlier than the sport.

Samuel Ersson was Kolosov’s backup. Ivan Fedotov, the group’s third goalie on the roster proper now, was not practically dependable sufficient in his three begins, which made the Flyers summon Kolosov.

Montreal netminder Cayden Primeau, the son of former Flyers captain Keith Primeau, stopped 23 pictures.

• After combining for 12 factors (5 targets, seven assists) within the Flyers’ win over Minnesota, Konecny, Sean Couturier and Matvei Michkov mixed for one level Sunday night time.

The Flyers simply did not generate a lot and have been one and finished approach too many occasions.

“I might prefer to see us play quicker, it simply would not look like we’re enjoying quick,” Tortorella stated. “I believe that has damage us somewhat bit. We’re not sneaking up on groups. Final 12 months, I believe we felt that we snuck up on groups somewhat bit with our transition recreation.”

Defensively, Nick Seeler and Jamie Drysdale are nonetheless working to be a extra constant second pair.

• Together with Kolosov, Emil Andrae was referred to as up Saturday night time from the Phantoms and drew into the lineup. He performed rather than Egor Zamula, who has fought it by means of eight video games. The 24-year-old owns a minus-10 ranking and hasn’t proven a quickness in his decision-making.

“Simply the velocity,” Tortorella stated earlier than the sport. “Not simply bodily velocity, however psychological so far as studying performs, getting the puck up the ice faster.”

The Flyers’ teaching employees has used Zamula as an interpreter for speaking with Michkov. Tortorella believes it has compounded issues for the Russian defenseman.

“We’ve stopped utilizing him as an interpreter, I believe we went somewhat bit too far there,” the top coach stated. “It is time that we speak to Mich. It is simply an excessive amount of and I believe that has affected him somewhat bit. I simply need to put him out, let him watch a recreation and attempt to regroup after which we’ll see what occurs after this recreation.”

• The Flyers are again in motion Tuesday after they go to the Bruins (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).