Travis Konecny and Cam York scored and Carter Hart stopped 26 shots for the Flyers.
Brady Tkachuk and Jakob Chychrun each scored twice to lead the Ottawa Senators to a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.
"It’s huge," Tkachuk said of getting the first win. "Something to build on and we’re right back at it tomorrow, so you can’t really focus on much longer because we’ve got a wagon coming in tomorrow so you’ve got to be ready for that and that task. We just have to keep building on it."Philadelphia opened the season with a 4-2 win over Columbus on Thursday night, but struggled to generate much against Ottawa.
Ottawa took a 5-2 lead early in the third with its third power-play goal of the game. Claude Giroux found Tkachuk for his second of the contest.Two minutes in Zack MacEwen found Chychrun to open the scoring. With the man advantage Tarasenko made a no-look pass to Chychrun in the right circle, and he beat Hart high stick side.
The Flyers cut the lead in half late in the period on a two-man advantage, with Konecky picking up a rebound in front to bury his third of the season.
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