The Flyers' streak of points in 12 straight games came to an end Thursday with a 4-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Former Flyer Justin Williams scored twice and now has 14 goals in 33 career games against the Flyers.
Travis Konecny scored his 16th goal of the season.
Petr Mrazek lost his first game since joining the Flyers as he stopped 31 of 35 shots in the process.
The Hurricanes took the ice with heavy hearts as Carolina center Jordan Staal played his first game since the death of his stillborn infant daughter.
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The Flyers and Hurricanes will meet two more times - March 17 in Carolina and April 5 at the Wells Fargo Center.
• An awful start for the Flyers saw the Hurricanes play with more energy and tempo and force the issue in the opening five minutes. They beat the Flyers to pucks, forced turnovers and won a majority of the board battles. Carolina jumped on the board first at the tail end of a power play as Mrazek couldn't secure Jeff Skinner's snap shot that slipped underneath his arm. Skinner gained inside position on defenseman Brandon Manning and Williams rammed home the rebound for a 1-0 Hurricanes lead.
• It wasn't a good first period for Manning, who followed up that shift with a terrible turnover in his own end right to Carolina's Brock McGinn that produced a prime scoring chance in the high-danger scoring area. Could have easily been a 2-0 Carolina lead.
• Check out Radko Gudas with the dazzling dangle with 7:45 remaining in the first period. He easily maneuvered around Skinner to set up a wrist shot from the left circle.
.@radkogudas has brought the dangles. pic.twitter.com/B8HYh8ddKG— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) March 2, 2018
• Which one defenseman would you want back in a 2-on-1 situation? Shayne Gostisbehere would be my choice. He's shown over the course of the season how well he reads and defends odd-man rushes, and that was the case again as he dropped to one knee to break up a cross-ice pass. He makes it look easy.
• Terrible 4-on-4 coverage led to the Hurricanes extending their lead to 2-0. Defenseman Justin Faulk skated unchecked in the neutral zone and built up speed before he gave it up to Teuvo Teravainen, who perfectly executed a give-and-go with Sebastien Aho. Teravainen simply out-hustled Robert Hagg to the net and scored on the feed from Aho.
• The second period didn't look much different than the first, as Carolina was the quicker, hungrier team. When the Flyers worked the puck deep, they couldn't build any sustained pressure and the Hurricanes did a very good job of keeping them on the outside while clogging up the middle.
• The Flyers came out of the third period with some speed and jump as they cut the Hurricanes' lead to 3-1. Konecny and Sean Couturier teamed up for a beautiful play. Couturier set up Konecny with a perfect saucer pass that laid down at the last second right on Konecny's stick.
TK doing TK things 👌
Presented by @skiJFBB pic.twitter.com/hVRCuqclvr— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) March 2, 2018
• The Flyers picked up their game and brought more pace, especially in transition after struggling to get the puck into Carolina's zone. Once again, they looked for the perfect pass or play instead of settling for the obvious shot. Konecny passed up on an obvious shot attempt with about five minutes remaining in the period.
• This was clearly one of Manning's worst games over the past few months. He looked indecisive with the puck and made another poor decision trying to play the puck from behind his net.
