The Flyers will come back to Philadelphia for a season-long homestand feeling pretty good about themselves.
They knocked off the NHL-leading Jets, 2-1, in a shootout Saturday night at Canada Life Centre.
Ivan Fedotov was outstanding in net.
Matvei Michkov scored his second shootout winner. The prized rookie also has three overtime winners.
Jamie Drysdale netted the lone goal for the Flyers (27-26-8), who extended their point streak to five games (4-0-1). Since the 4 Nations Face-Off break, the Flyers are 3-0-1, have scored 4.25 goals per game and given up 2.50.
John Tortorella’s club has two more games before Friday’s 3 p.m. ET trade deadline. The Flyers are four points back of the Eastern Conference’s second wild-card spot. However, they have five teams ahead of them and trail all five in regulation wins (a key tiebreaker).
The Jets (42-15-4) dropped to 23-5-4 at home. The Flyers see them again in five days at the Wells Fargo Center.
• Playing his first game in over three weeks, Fedotov sure …