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The weary Flyers will be happy to finally come home. And happy to not see Connor McDavid again the rest of the regular season. The best player on the planet put on a dazzling show Tuesday night, sending the Flyers back to Philadelphia with a 5-2 loss.
McDavid factored into all five of Edmonton's goals, dissecting John Tortorella's club with a marker and four assists.
The Flyers (19-13-5) have dropped consecutive games in regulation for the first time since Nov. 22-24.
Following the NHL-mandated holiday break, the Flyers went 1-2-1 on their four-game road swing. They played in Detroit before the break and reconvened in Vancouver, British Columbia to open this trip.
While also battling illness in their locker room, the Flyers started to wear down as the travel picked up and then ran into a red-hot Edmonton team led by the sport's top superstar.
Call it a perfect storm.
The Oilers (19-15-1) have won six straight games and 14 of their last 17.
The Flyers split their two-game regular-season series with Edmonton. They beat the Oilers in October, 4-1, at the Wells Fargo Center.
• This game had alarms coming into it.
It looked like a bad spot for the Flyers and turned out to be one.
Tortorella's club has now lost five of its last six games (1-3-2).
As we noted after the team's loss on New Year's Eve, this is a gut check for the Flyers. They let losing streaks spiral out of control over the past two seasons. If they want to keep surprising this season, they'll have to nip this in the bud.
Returning home, the Flyers will try to recharge, regain some of their mojo and prevent a fourth straight loss, which would mark a season-worst skid. We'll see if they can further prove themselves.
• Whenever the Flyers visit Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, McDavid does serious damage.
The three-time MVP has put up 22 points (eight goals, 14 assists) in eight career home games against the Flyers.
He was a total force Tuesday night.
His goal gave the Oilers a 1-0 lead at first intermission. He then padded the advantage with a no-look pass to Zach Hyman in the second period.
The Flyers showed resolve by erasing the deficit with goals from Travis Konecny and Marc Staal in the middle stanza.
But Edmonton's power play answered before second intermission.
In the third period, McDavid made two more beautiful passes to set up goals and put the game away.
Against McDavid in Philadelphia, the Flyers are 5-2-0 lifetime and have held him in check (nine points).
But he has been a nightmare for them on his home ice.
McDavid ran away with the Hart Trophy race last season. He won the NHL MVP honor for the third time by leading the league in goals (64), assists (89) and, of course, points (153).
• Carter Hart kept the Flyers in the game through the first two periods.
He finished with 31 saves on 36 shots.
Oilers netminder Stuart Skinner stopped 35 of the Flyers' 37 shots.
The Flyers went 0 for 4 on the power play and committed four penalties. Not a good recipe.
• Joel Farabee assisted both of the Flyers' goals and owns points in nine of the last 12 games.
He has 12 points (four goals, eight assists) over that stretch and got a look on the Flyers' top line Tuesday night.
The 23-year-old winger has had a mature and productive response to the in-game benching at the end of November.
• Nicolas Deslauriers was not in the lineup for the first time this season as Tortorella rolled with 11 forwards and seven defensemen.
Staal's goal was the defenseman's first as a Flyer.
• The Flyers play their first home game in two weeks Thursday when they host the Blue Jackets (7 p.m. ET/NBCSP).
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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