Round 2 for the Flyers and Devils, who have lost 10 straight games

The teams are in the midst of playing a four-game series.

Brian Elliott will get his sixth start in the Flyers' last eight games.Read moreYONG KIM / Staff Photographer

Published April 27, 2021, 10:43 a.m. ET

If you thought the Flyers were having a difficult time, take a look at the poor New Jersey Devils.

They outplayed the Flyers for most of Sunday’s game and deserved a victory.

And then Claude Giroux scored twice with goalie Brian Elliott pulled for an extra attacker late in regulation, and the Flyers won in a shootout, 4-3.

The Devils’ losing streak reached 10 games, and this was the most painful one.

“It’s tough. But I’m going to focus on all the good stuff we did,” Devils coach Lindy Ruff said after the latest defeat. “That last minute, a little bit of panic. I thought we moved the puck well. We skated well. We probably passed up a lot of good opportunities. We tried to make the right play. We had a puck go off the referee. That happens. It goes off the referee and goes right to them. You know the rest of the story.”

Ruff’s Devils will try to regroup Tuesday when the teams meet again, this time at the Prudential Center in Newark. The Flyers and Devils are in the midst of playing a four-game series.

“There was so much good in that game,” Ruff said, “but we’ve got to get by that [loss]. ”

The Flyers will be trying to win two straight games for just the second time in the last six weeks.

Brian Elliott, 36, will make his sixth start in the last eight games for the Flyers, and defenseman Egor “Big Z” Zamula will make his NHL debut and will be paired with Travis Sanheim.

Elliott is 13-6-2 with a 2.88 GAA and .896 save percentage; he is a pending unrestricted free agent, and he is trying to entice the Flyers to re-sign him after the season.

York connects

Phantoms defenseman Cam York, selected by the Flyers in the first round of the 2019 draft, scored his first pro goal and added two assists in Lehigh Valley’s 6-5 AHL win Monday over Binghamton.

Linus Sandin (two goals) and Cal O’Reilly (three assists) also keyed the victory. O’Reilly became the 10th player in AHL history to collect 500 career assists.

The Flyers plan to recall York at some point this season, and Sandin might also be a call-up.

Breakaways

In one-goal games, the Flyers are 14-4-7, and the Devils are 10-8-7. … Sean Couturier has picked up at least one point in 26 of the 37 games he’s played this season. … The Devils’ trio of Miles Wood, Michael McLeod, and Nate Bastian has combined for nine points over the last four games. The line had five points Sunday against the Flyers. … The Devils have the NHL’s youngest team. … The Flyers have been outscored in the first period, 55-36. … The Flyers have allowed the first goal in 16 of the last 18 games.