Five eye-popping stats from the Flyers’ overtime win over the Penguins
The Flyers' Game 6 win over Pittsburgh included some historic performances from the Flyers. Let's dive into the numbers.
The Flyers are heading to the second round of the playoffs after a dramatic, series-clinching 1-0 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night.
The win locks in a series with Carolina in Round 2, and marks the first time the Flyers have advanced to the second round of the playoffs in a non-COVID year since 2012. But before we look ahead at the matchup with the Hurricanes, let’s look back at five big numbers from what was a historic Game 7 at Xfinity Mobile Arena.
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42
Dan Vladař’s shutout wasn’t just a historic performance from a Flyers perspective; it put him in rare NHL air. The netminder’s 42 saves were the second most by a Flyer in a playoff shutout behind Michal Neuvirth’s 44 stops against Washington in 2016, and were the fourth-most by a goalie in a series-clinching shutout over the past 70 years, according to Flyers Media Information. The three goalies above him? Patrick Roy with 63 in 1996; Andrei Vasilevskiy with 49 in 2022; and Carey Price with 43 in 2015. Hall of Fame company.
22
As you might guess, 1-0 overtime playoff games don’t happen very often. Wednesday marked just the 54th time in over 100 years, and the 37th since 1950, that a game has entered overtime without a goal. At 77 minutes, 32 seconds, Cam York’s OT winner for the Flyers was the latest opening goal in a Stanley Cup playoff game in 22 years.
14
The Flyers have been preaching team over individuals, and their first-round series certainly reflected that, as an NHL-high 14 different players accounted for their 16 goals against the Pens. The next highest is Anaheim with 11 different goal scorers. Eighteen of the Flyers’ 20 skaters overall recorded a point in this series, with Tyson Foerster and Emil Andrae the only ones not to get on the scoresheet.
2
Wednesday was just the second-ever 1-0 playoff overtime game involving the Flyers. The other? That came back in 2002 in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals against the Ottawa Senators. The hero that night? None other than Ruslan Fedotenko, who, like York, scored his first career playoff goal with a backhander by Patrick Lalime from distance.
1
The Flyers have a long and proud history, having won two Stanley Cups and dressed some of the greatest players to ever play the game. But the Flyers organization and its fans saw something on Wednesday that had never happened before: a series-clinching overtime winner at home in Philadelphia. While Dave “The Hammer” Schultz (1974 vs. Atlanta), André “Moose” Dupont (1975 vs. Toronto), Ken “The Rat” Linseman (1980 vs. Edmonton), Jeremy “J.R.” Roenick, and Joffrey “Lupes” Lupul (2008 vs. Washington) all scored series-clinching OT winners, they all did so on the road. Looks like it’s time to give Cam York a nickname!
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