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Ce qui n’était autrefois qu’une infraction routière est désormais un délit pénal.

After a huge win over the Golden Knights on Monday to break their losing streak, the Flyers continued on to the next stop on their road trip, heading to Utah to face off against the Mammoth and hopefully keep their positive momentum rolling. And while this was something that worked initially for them, lapses and lack of attention to detail quickly allowed this game to get away from them, and instead the Flyers were stuck with a heartbreaker of a loss in overtime to cap this one off. The Basics First period: :30- Cam York (Dvorak, Sanheim), 4:36- Christian Dvorak (Konecny, Juulsen)Second period: :58- Bobby Brink (Zegras, Drysdale)PPG, 5:35- JJ Peterka (unassisted), 6:11- Lawson Crouse (Schmaltz, Keller), 10:28- Christian Dvorak (Zegras, Drysdale)PPGThird period: 12:47- Barrett Hayton (Guenther, Schmaltz)PPG, 19:25- Clayton Keller (unassisted)OT: 2:01- Clayton Keller (Guenther)SOG: 29 (PHI) – 27 (UTA) Some takeaways Starting hot and staying hot (to a point) One of the major standout elements of the Flyers’ big win over the Golden Knights on Monday was the way that they were able to jump out to an early lead and keep their momentum rolling once they had the lead, and it was nice to see them able to keep that good work carrying into tonight’s game as well. The Flyers came out with some good pace, came out swinging, and were able to get themselves on the board just 30 seconds into the game, care of Cam York, and just ask quickly seemed to have the Mammoth on their heels. The early goal certainly gave them a nice jolt, but it’s notable too that the first period on the whole was a good one for the Flyers — they came up with a big penalty kill just over a minute after York’s goal, and were largely able to control play through the first frame, coming away with an advantage in the shot department to the tune of 14-7. Now, this is not a level of play they could maintain for the complete 60 minutes (more on that later), but it remains a positive that the Flyers seem to finally be figuring out how to start these games on time. The power play looks visually better While the penalty calling was a little lopsided in this one, the Flyers still got a good number of power plays to work with in this one (six in total), and they showed some good flash on the man-advantage. Though the Flyers weren’t able to immediately build on their early lead with a conversion on their first attempt of the night, they did deliver some quick and decisive puck movement which seemed quite promising. And promising it was in practice, and the Flyers were able to break through quickly on their first time out in the second period, working their cycle well and getting the puck down low for Bobby Brink to bang it in. The work wasn’t done here though, and the Flyers were able to tack on a second power play goal later in the period, though on a less finely set up play, as this one came on a rush chance, with Christian Dvorak skating the puck in on an entry, putting up an initial shot, and then grabbing and putting away his own rebound for their fourth goal of the night. Of course, this too was not a level of effectiveness that they were able to sustain across the whole of the game — are detecting a theme here? — and they didn’t get much to speak of in the way of chances on their final two attempts of the game, when they really could have used another conversion for a bit more insulation, but all the same, there was some good work put in leading up to that. Tippett blindsided Before some of the blunders which would come to define this game, the Flyers also got hit by a bit of bad luck, when Owen Tippett was rocked on a blind hit in the neutral zone — which did look high from our vantage point, but which was called as a major and ultimately reduced to no penalty by the officials upon review — and seemed shaken up enough to head off the ice and to the room for an evaluation. After a video…