Philadelphia Flyers come from behind to beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2.

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Philadelphia Flyers come from behind to beat Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2. Here is the summary for the game played on Tuesday, December 12, 2017

GAME SUMMARY         |           EVENT SUMMARY        |           FACEOFF SUMMARY

ON THE SCORESHEET

Patrick Marleau put the Maple Leafs on the board at 9:48 of the first period. Marleau’s goal is the 1,100th point of his NHL career. He is the 60th player in NHL history to reach the milestone.

James van Riemsdyk scored Toronto’s second goal of the night with a power play marker at 16:50 of the second period. He leads the Maple Leafs with six power play goals and nine power play points this season.

Zach Hyman had the primary assist on Marleau’s first period goal. Hyman has points (1-1-2) in two consecutive games.

Ron Hainsey notched the secondary assist on Marleau’s first period goal. Hainsey has recorded 14 points (2 goals, 12 assists) at even-strength this season.

Morgan Rielly recorded the primary assist on van Riemsdyk’s second period goal. Rielly has eight power play points this season (1 goal, 7 assists).

Mitch Marner picked up the secondary assist on van Riemsdyk’s second period goal. Marner leads the Maple Leafs with 18 assists this season.

Frederik Andersen made 35 saves in the loss.

SHOTS FIRED

The Maple Leafs were outshot by the Flyers by a 39-22 margin in all situations and a 37-21 margin at 5-on-5.

Philadelphia had a 60-45 lead in shot attempts in all situations and a 57-43 lead in shot attempts at 5-on-5

Six Maple Leafs recorded at least two shots on goal.

Nazem Kadri had a team-high six shot attempts.

SHOTS ON GOAL

SHOT ATTEMPTS

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

The Maple Leafs are 10-6-1 on the road this season.

Toronto’s all-time record is 61-92-22-4 in 179 games against the Flyers and 26-54-8-1 in games played in Philadelphia.

Toronto is 10-6-1 against the Eastern Conference this season and 5-5-0 against the Metropolitan Division.

The Maple Leafs continue their road trip on Thursday, Dec. 14 when they visit the Minnesota Wild at 8:00 p.m.

MAPLE LEAFS LEADERS

RECORD WHEN…

The Maple Leafs were 1-for-1 on the penalty kill and 1-for-1 on the power play tonight. Toronto is 12-4-1 when not allowing a power play goal this season and 7-4-0 when scoring a power play goal.

Toronto is 4-7-1 when their opponent scores the first goal of the game.

The Maple Leafs are 8-2-1 when tied after one period and 12-1-0 when leading after two periods.

Toronto has a 15-6-0 record when outshot by their opponent.

The Maple Leafs are 2-1-0 in Tuesday games.

OF NOTE…

Jake Gardiner, Patrick Marleau and William Nylander were each on the ice for a team-high 16 shot attempts-for at 5-on-5.

Patrick Marleau skated in his 1,525th career NHL game tonight to pass Brendan Shanahan for sole possession of 16th on the NHL’s game played list.

Dominic Moore started 20 percent of his shifts in the offensive zone at 5-on-5, which was the lowest percentage among Toronto skaters in tonight’s game.

UPCOMING GAMES:

Thursday, Dec. 14 at Minnesota Wild, 8:00 p.m. (Sportsnet Ontario, TSN 1050)

Friday, Dec. 15 at Detroit Red Wings, 7:30 p.m. (TSN4, FAN 590)

Tuesday, Dec. 19 vs. Carolina Hurricanes, 2:00 p.m. (Sportsnet Ontario, FAN 590)

Wednesday, Dec. 20 at Columbus Blue Jackets, 7:30 p.m. (Sportsnet, TSN 1050)

Saturday, Dec. 23 at New York Rangers, 7:00 p.m. (Hockey Night in Canada, FAN 590)

POSTGAME QUOTES:

HEAD COACH MIKE BABCOCK

On tonight’s game:

I don’t like the third. To me, we had gifted two goals so the one tough play the goalie touched the goal and then the play that they came in, we’re above those people. To me, you can’t do that. I thought we were set up pretty good, to be honest with you. I thought they worked hard and I thought they moved the puck, but I thought we were in a real good situation. In the end, we didn’t execute on things we normally execute on to win. That’s on us and two good points for them, but I really thought we let this slip away. We should have got one for sure, if not two.

On the team not pushing in the third period:

That wasn’t our plan, that’s not what we talked about. We stopped pushing for sure, but even then I thought we were in a great spot. We had the goal exchange and one that went off somebody in our zone and ended up in our net. The other one is just be above your guy coming back, simple. Even with that I still thought we were in a good spot to get a point or two points, we just didn’t execute. We’ve got to do a better job.

On the first Flyers goal:

Have you looked at the faceoff? It doesn’t much matter, it’s over with. No official tries to be involved in anything. I didn’t like it.

FREDERIK ANDERSEN (35 SAVES)

On the Flyers:

I think they’re feeling good and they came hard and out-battled us a little bit. It was a close game. It could have gone either way.

On the second Philadelphia goal:

I didn’t find the puck there. I made a mistake playing the puck there and that led to offensive zone time. When he shot it up top I didn’t find it and I didn’t know it was in. A couple of mistakes in the third there.

On keeping the score close throughout games:

You’ve got to have a lead instead of 60 instead of 40 but it’s positive we’re keeping it close. I think we were missing a little bit today and we could have been better.

On preparing for Minnesota:

We’ve got to get back rolling. Take tomorrow to get ready for Thursday. It should be another good test.

CONNOR BROWN (14:53 TOI)

On the game-winning goal for Philadelphia:

Giroux made a nifty little play to the middle, I didn’t think he could get through there and tried to be inside, but it’s my responsibility to be on the high side of Couturier there. It was a good shot.

On the team getting outshot too often catching up in this loss:

Yeah, we’re a good team and even when we’re not playing our best we’ve been able to find ways to win. We’ve got to nip this in the bud before it becomes a problem.

On how to generate more shots:

It’s back to basics. I think we’re sitting back a little too much and we’re one-and-done in the O-zone. We’ve got to find ways to play more offence and spend more time in the O-zone.

On if the team is relying on Andersen too heavily:

I don’t think guys are going out there thinking we’ve got a good goalie so we can lay off, but he has been bailing us out as of late. Even though we’ve had some wins, we’ve got to turn the ship around.

On what leads to a one-and-done offensive rush:

Puck retrievals is probably the biggest thing. One-on-one battles – it’s often that first one-on-one battle. If you can win that one you can get rolling around for a bit and spend some time in their zone and make them play defence, more importantly, and get a few chances while you’re at it. That’s something I’m sure we’ll focus on. We have been focusing on it, but we’ve got to take it to the next step.

PATRICK MARLEAU (GOAL, 1,100TH NHL POINT)

On tonight’s game:

I think they came at us there in the third and we didn’t get on our toes and go after them and they were able to come back and get the win.

On the team’s play as of late:

Goaltending has been strong for us. Tonight, it was just keeping our foot on the gas and trying to get that next goal. I think we could do a little bit better job of doing that.

On if the team has been relying too much on the goaltending lately:

Obviously, you don’t want to give up as many shots as we’ve been giving up but I think what we’ve been doing well is not having a lot of traffic in front so they’re able to see the shots and make some saves when we get into trouble, when guys get in front of the net and there’s a little chaos in front.

On Philadelphia’s first goal:

I guess my skate was over the line (on the faceoff) and they just made a quick bang-bang play off the draw.

On reaching 1,100 points:

It’s nice. Coming with a win would have been a lot nicer. When you lose it doesn’t really matter, I guess.

MORGAN RIELLY (1 ASSIST)

On what happened in the third period:

They played well. They played well all night. They got chances. Obviously, a few big goals and that’s about it.

On if the team has been relying too much on the goaltending lately:

I don’t think our mindset is that we’re relying on him but he’s been there every night. He’s been there every night this entire season so I think we owe him a better effort sometimes. I think tonight was an example of that. To answer your question, I don’t think we go into the third with a gameplan of trying to let Freddie stand on his head. That’s just how good he is, that he’s able to do that when he needs to but as a group we have to do a better job in front of him. I mean, you’re exactly right, because the past couple of games they’ve got lots of opportunities in the third and he’s been there to answer the door every single time so we owe him a better effort.

On why the team has been able to protect their previous third period leads:

Well… Freddie. He’s been outstanding. I think as a team we have to get a bit more comfortable playing with leads because we want to be in that position every night. I think we just have to become more comfortable with it, better at it, more confident. Sometimes when you’re up late in the game or tied late in the game you can just become a bit nervous and more hesitant that you are normally and that normally results in chances against.

On whether that confident comes from experience:

Yep. Yep. Just being used to being in that position. That’s the best practices, is doing it every night. In order to do that we’ve got to have a good start, a good second and play with the lead and then we can keep working on it.

JAMES van RIEMSDYK (1 GOAL)

On tonight’s game:

I think they made some big plays and obviously on their last goal that’s a big time shot and a big time pass to get that to them so they made a good play there. I don’t think we spent enough time in the offensive end or created enough offensively. I think we’ve got to find some more ways to get some more shots to the net and go from there.

On if the team has been a ‘one-and-done’ offence lately:

It just feels like, in general, the games we’ve been playing have been more of a patient style of game and we’ve got to find a way to create offence in those games and create some more havoc at their net and have some things happen. I think it’s been kind of low-event sort of games and I think we can do some other stuff to be able to be a little bit more dynamic offensively.

On Patrick Marleau:

He’s been great. No matter what kind of position he’s been playing he’s been doing a great job. You don’t really expect anything less from him, he’s been doing it for a long time and we’re happy to have him on our team.