EDMONTON, Alberta - The last time the Flyers won back-to-back road games came nearly a full calendar year ago last season in New York.
Now, they've strung together consecutive victories in Western Canada - which has been the perfect getaway following a 10-game winless streak - by playing simple, basic road hockey.
"Yeah, we talked about that. These aren't our fans out here. We don't have to entertain them," goaltender Brian Elliott said. "We've just got to come away with the two points. We're playing that good road-style hockey when you have nothing, you've got to get it in deep and live to fight another day, and I think our guys are really buying into that right now."
The Flyers on Wednesday night completed a season sweep of the Oilers, winning, 4-2, at Rogers Place, and they finally received some secondary scoring from some unlikely contributors (see observations).
"This is a real solid road win," head coach Dave Hakstol said. "I thought from start to finish, this was a real good way to follow up a good win in Calgary. I just thought all parts of our game were pretty good tonight."
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Jordan Weal chipped in with a power-play goal on a perfectly executed tic-tac-toe play that started with Claude Giroux's slap pass to Sean Couturier, who then found Weal stationed in front of the crease for the tap-in goal. Weal had taken Wayne Simmonds' spot momentarily with the other members on the top power-play unit.
"It's been a long time coming," Weal, who scored his first goal in his last 13 games, said. "I think Simmonds had something with his skate. I just jumped out. It's nice when you can get out with special players like that. Coots made a helluva play to get it to me."
Dale Weise scored his first goal in a month taking a feed from Claude Giroux, who outraced the defense to a loose puck in setting up Weise (see highlights).
"It definitely feels good," Weise said. "I've really liked the way we've played the last two games. We made some adjustments throughout our neutral zone and really clogging teams up. They're not coming with as much speed and we're getting out of the zone a little cleaner."
More importantly, Weal's goal came about five minutes after the Oilers jumped on the board first with a shorthanded tally when Connor McDavid stripped Couturier of the puck and led a 2-on-1 the other way, resulting in Leon Draisaitl's goal that gave Edmonton a 1-0 lead.
Outside of McDavid's assist, the Flyers executed textbook defense against the Oilers' superstar, much like they did in the game in Philadelphia, holding him to just one shot which came late in the third period.
"That's what he does - he builds up that speed and catches you flat-footed," Elliott said. "Our guys did a [good] job to limit him and keep him to the outside there. He didn't really get a grade-A shot off. Hats off to the guys in front of me, for sure."
"Our forecheck was really good tonight in the neutral zone," Weal said. "We were a five-man group. We were all connected. If you beat one guy, there's a couple other guys there to support. Whenever their skill guys tried to cut to the middle, I thought we had good back pressure and they weren't able to make plays they wanted to."
Jakub Voracek and Simmonds accounted for 16 of the Flyers' 33 shots on goal, and it was Simmonds' last shot on an empty net that sealed the game in the final minute.
Elliott stopped 24 shots and he's expected to play on back-to-back nights after Michal Neuvirth was placed on injured reserve Wednesday morning (see story).
