got their offense going in the second period and outshot the Bruins 17-7, then continued to pressure Boston in the third.Rask stopped Scott Laughton on a penalty shot 6:22 into the third, but the Flyers tied it with 9:

Western Canadian teams are getting their lone chance to see how they stack up on their home ice against the NHL’s top team this weekend.On Thursday Chris Wagner Jersey Womens , it’s the Calgary Flames‘ turn to test the Tampa Bay Lightning. For the Lightning, it’s a chance to face one of the Western Conference’s top squads.The Lightning had an eight-point advantage over four teams including the Flames entering play Wednesday night. Tampa Bay is coming off a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks in a testy affair on Tuesday while the Flames were blanked 2-0 by the Stars in Dallas the same night.Article continues below ...The Lightning dropped the opener of their Western road trip 6-5 in overtime Winnipeg on X and wrap it up Saturday night in Edmonton against the Oilers in a game that will be shown nationally in Canada. They are 9-0-1 in their past 10 games.The player to watch for Tampa Bay in Calgary surprisingly is fourth-line winger Danick Martel, who replaced Ryan Callahan in the lineup in Vancouver after Callahan was scratched following warmups. Martel picked up an assist for his first point in six NHL games, but his second period hit that injured Canucks defenseman Troy Stecher made him a target for the remainder of the night.I think pretty much everyone thought I would have a bad game and just play two, three minutes, maybe one Alex Galchenyuk Jersey Womens , two shifts and just feel it around and cover some shifts,” Martel told reports.“But I wanted to make a difference. I don’t have a lot of opportunities at the start of the year, so when I have some, I have to get ready. I said the same thing the first game. I’m playing my role. I played a decent game again today for the warmup I had, so I’m proud of it.”The Lightning were tight-lipped on Callahan’s injury other than to say it was in the upper body area and that he wasn’t sure when exactly it occurred.“We hope (it’s minor),” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said.Calgary’s vaunted offence will give the Lightning a test as well. Tampa gave up 40 shots in Winnipeg and 38 in Vancouver. Tampa goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy will be trying to stop a Flames offence that has four players with 17-plus goals each – Sean Monahan (20) Carter Rowney Jersey Womens , Elias Lindholm (17) and Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk 15 each after 35 games of the regular season.The Flames went 2-1 on their road trip but were left to bemoan an off night in Dallas that they know they can’t repeat on Thursday.“It’s a good test,” Flames captain Mark Giordano said.“We haven’t seen them yet but we know what they’ve been doing – pretty much winning every game. They are up top by five or six points. They’re a team that is one of the best if not the best in the league right now so it’s a real test. We’ve got to clean some stuff up.”David Rittich is expected to get the start in goal for Calgary. He drew praise for his efforts in Dallas. BOSTON (AP) — The Philadelphia Flyers’s holiday slump is well behind them. Now they’re trying to salvage what had been a dismal season.Travis Sanheim scored a power-play goal 2:56 into overtime and the Flyers beat the Boston Bruins 3-2 on Thursday night to extend their season-best winning streak to six.The Flyers went 2 for 2 on the power play — improving to 14.1 percent for the season — and won in overtime for just the second time this season.“We played one of our best games,” said captain Claude Giroux, whose breakaway goal with 44 seconds left in the first period tied it at 1-1 and jumpstarted the Flyers for the remainder of the game. “I think it’s confidence. When you get a couple wins you start feeling better about yourselves”There was little confidence for Philadelphia at the beginning of the month during a losing streak that hit eight straight before the recent turnaround.“I can’t say enough about the way the guys played tonight,” coach Scott Gordon said. “That has to be the best game we played. A little bit of a slow start, but you know Luke Schenn Jersey Womens , nothing that we couldn’t recover from.”Sanheim had a goal and an assist, helping setting up Oskar Lindblom’s tying goal with 9:24 left in the third period, then beat Tuukka Rask with a long wrist shot in the final seconds of a power play after Brad Marchand was sent off for tripping.Jakub Voracek had two assists and Carter Hart made 23 saves for the resurgent Flyers, who have won seven of eight to improve to 22-23-6 and took the season series against the Bruins 2-1.David Pastrnak scored both goals for the Bruins. Rask, out with a concussion since Jan. 19, stopped 38 shots in his return. The Bruins lost their third straight Womens Niklas Hjalmarsson Jersey , making costly mistakes at crucial times once again.“We have to fix it. The guys have to decide if they’re going to play the right way and buy in and understand what we are right now,” coach Bruce Cassidy said. “If we’re scoring five goals a night, you get a little different animal. You can overlook some of those things. We’re not in that position right now.”Travis Konecny, who drew the penalty on Marchand in OT, assisted with Sean Couturier on Sanheim’s winner from the left circle.Pastrnak scored a power-play goal 3:05 into the game to put the Bruins up 1-0, beating Hart with a one-timer from the left circle off Torey Krug’s pass with 42 seconds remaining on Giroux’s tripping penalty.Pastrnak reached 30 goals for the third straight season when he tipped in a shot by Bergeron 5:11 into the second Scott Wedgewood Jersey Womens , putting Boston up 2-1.Giroux beat Rask on a breakaway with 44 seconds left in the first to tie it at 1. It was just the eighth shot of the period for the Flyers, who got their offense going in the second period and outshot the Bruins 17-7, then continued to pressure Boston in the third.Rask stopped Scott Laughton on a penalty shot 6:22 into the third, but the Flyers tied it with 9:24 left on Lindblom’s power-play goal from the slot off a pass from Voracek.Rask entered the game tied with Cecil “Tiny” Thompson as the winningest goaltender in club history with 252 victories. He was playing in his first game since Jan. 19, when a collision with New York Rangers’ Filip Chytil left him with a concussion in the Bruins’ final game before the All-Star break.NOTES: Boston RW David Backes played in his 900th NHL game. … F Joakim Nordstrom returned to the Bruins lineup after missing 10 games with a leg fracture. … Philadelphia D Shayne Gostisbehere missed his third straight game with a lower-body injury. … Voracek has assists in six of seven games.UP NEXT:Flyers: Host Edmonton on Saturday afternoon to open a five-game homestand.Bruins: At Washington on Sunday afternoon.