Flyers outlast Bruins in overtime

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PHILADELPHIA – The undermanned Bruins have won their share of games lately while missing players from their team, but they couldn’t muster that special stuff once again on Sunday in Philadelphia.

The Bruins never held a lead and made some uncharacteristic mistakes in a 4-3 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center where they still did enough to get a point making it to overtime.

Claude Giroux won it in the extra session with a breakaway score for his second goal of the game as he drives a pretty strong Hart Trophy candidacy to the finish line.  

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The Flyers jumped on the board first in the opening period when a quick, clean breakout through all three zones gave Philly plenty of speed and space for tic-tac-toe passing, and Travis Konecny fed a cross-ice pass to Claude Giroux for a one-timer that beat Anton Khudobin to the far post. The Flyers doubled their lead at the start of the second period on the very first shift when Travis Konecny dangled through Adam McQuaid and Patrice Bergeron off the half-wall before snapping a shot short-side on Khudobin.

The Bruins got one back in the second period on Noel Acciari’s ninth goal of the season while taking a shift with David Backes and Danton, and that closed it to a one-goal deficit headed into the final 20 minutes of action.

Once again in the third Nolan Patrick got behind the Bruins defense after getting away with a high stick to the face of Torey Krug, and Patrick buried his chance in all alone to restore the two-goal cushion. Boston’s top power play unit once again struck with David Pastrnak scoring his 33rd goal of the season to again make it a one-goal game, but that’s as close as the Black and Gold would get until the very end against a well-rested Philly team.

That’s when the Bruins pulled their goalie and Patrice Bergeron scored his 30th goal of the season with 3.8 seconds to go to tie things up and push it into overtime.  

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