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In Game Three of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal. Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers take on Dan Muse’s Pittsburgh Penguins at Xfinity Mobile Arena on Wednesday evening.

On Monday, Dan Vladar notched his first career playoff shutout as the Flyers skated to a 3-0 victory in Game Two of the series. Rookie winger Porter Martone (2nd goal of the playoffs) opened the scoring in the second period. The Flyers later got goals from Garnet Hathaway (SHG, 1st) and Luke Glendening (ENG, 1st).

In Game Two, the Penguins were slow to adjust to the Flyers’ neutral zone 1-2-2. Even with three first period power plays, the Flyers limited Pittsburgh the paltry two shots on goal in the opening 20 minutes.

The second period started with a little more push from Pittsburgh but the game reverted to Philly’s control. By the end of the frame, the Flyers had a 2-0 lead. A strong forechecking shift by the Flyers’ fourth line carried over into Martone’s goal on the next shift.

.The third period — for the first time in the six periods played to date — was actually controlled by the Penguins in a desperation push. Vladar kept the Penguins at bay. Pittsburgh grew frustrated, and started to take foolish after-the-whistle penalties near the end of the game. Meanwhile, the Glendening empty netter from a Sean Couturier feed iced the win.

Heading into Game Three, the Penguins will look to build off things they started to establish over the majority of the third period. Pittsburgh tried some things — a cross-corner dump-in for example that resulted in a prime scoring chance after the Pens won the retrieval — they had not been doing over Game One and the first 40 minutes of Game Two.

Where to watch

Time and Broadcast: 7:00 p.m. EDT on TNT, TRUTV and HBO MAX (national) and NBCSP (local)
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Series preview (Flyers.NHL.com): click here

Flyers series game-by-game

Game One: April 18 @ Pittsburgh

Game One scoring

Rasmus Ristolainen (0g, 2a)
Porter Martone (1g, 0a) — GWG
Travis Sanheim (1g, 0a)
Jamie Drysdale (1g, 0a)
Christian Dvorak (0g, 1a)
Travis Konecny (0g, 1a)
Trevor Zegras (0g, 1a)
Denver Barkey (0g, 1a)

Game One goaltending

Dan Vladar: 15 saves on 17 shots

Game One special teams

Power play: 0-for-3
Penalty kill: 2-for-2

Game Two: April 20 @ Pittsburgh

Game Two scoring

Garnet Hathaway (1g, 1a) — SHG, 7 hits
Porter Martone (1g, 0a) — GWG
Luke Glenending (1g, 0a) — ENG
Owen Tippet (0g, 1a)
Travis Konecny (0g, 1a)
Christian Dvorak (0g, 1a)
Sean Couturier (0g, 1a)

Game Two goaltending

Dan Vladar: 27 saves on 27 shots

Game One special teams

Power play: 0-for-5
Penalty kill: 5-for-5, 1 SHG

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Flyers Lineup

The Flyers held a morning skate on Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. EDT. They did not run lines during the session. Line combos will be adjusted from Game Two below if necessary.

Tyson Foerster – Trevor Zegras – Owen Tippett
Travis Konecny – Christian Dvorak – Porter Martone
Denver Barkey – Noah Cates – Matvei Michkov
Sean Couturier– Luke Glendening – Garnet Hathaway

Travis Sanheim – Rasmus Ristolainen
Cam York – Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler – Noah Juulsen

Dan Vladar
[Samuel Ersson]

Scratches: Carl Grundstrom (healthy), Alex Bump (healthy), Emil Andrae (upper body), Nikita Grebenkin (upper body), Garrett Wilson (healthy).

Flyers Daily (April 22, 2026)