Flyers edge Leafs 4-3 without healthy captain Couturier
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Owen Tippett scored 19 seconds into the game and added an assist, and Morgan Frost had a goal and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Tuesday night.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Owen Tippett scored 19 seconds into the game and added an assist, and Morgan Frost had a goal and an assist as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 on Tuesday night.
Travis Sanheim and Scott Laughton also scored for the Flyers, who played without captain Sean Couturier, who was a healthy scratch for the first time in his 13-year career.
Samuel Ersson, who was pulled in two of his previous three starts, made 27 saves, including a stop on Bobby McCann on a short-handed breakaway in the second period.
The Flyers had lost three of four entering the game and allowed 19 goals in their three losses.
Facing a three-goal deficit at the start of the third period, Toronto tried to mount a comeback. William Nylander scored on a power play and Tyler Bertuzzi and John Tavares added goals.
But Ersson made several big saves in the final 10 minutes and Laughton's goal with seven minutes left restored a two-goal advantage and helped ice the win.
Ilya Samsonov had 24 saves for Toronto, which had its three-game point streak halted.
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