Written by Tim Panaccio at CSNPhilly.com
Close your eyes and it was the 1980s all over again with the Edmonton Oilers piling up goals and Grant Fuhr giving up just as many.
Last goal wins.
Ah, but this is a different era with Connor McDavid, not Wayne Gretzky.
Yet instead of McDavid, the NHL’s leading scorer, it was Michael Raffl scoring last as theFlyers twice overcame a two-goal deficit to burn the Oilers, 6-5, Thursday night at the Wells Fargo Center.
That’s seven wins in succession for the Flyers, who are in third place in the Metropolitan Division, two points behind the Rangers and Penguins tied for first.
“We never give up no matter what the score is,” Jakub Voracek said. “We come back. We have a lot of good offensive players. We showed it again. Raffl was outstanding. He had a lot of scoring chances and he came up big.”
So many Flyers made critical plays. Voracek (plus-3) had a four-point game to go with the nifty pass off the offensive boards to Raffl, who then made a sharp cut to the net to wrist the puck past Jonas Gustavsson.
“Jakey banked it off the wall there and he wants me to make that play all the time, and he’s been hard on me about that,” said Raffl, who had a power move for the game-winner in Nashville last weekend. “I just put a little fake in there, got around the D-man and chipped it up high.”
This was a complete team comeback effort. Claude Giroux (plus-3) had two goals and three points. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare held McDavid to a power-play goal while shadowing him with rookie defenseman Ivan Provorov
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