Emil Andrae scores first career goal, but Flyers fall in shootout

If you bet the over in this game, you got your money's worth. The Flyers and Knights combined for nine total goals in a game that had all of the excitement.

It was Vegas who came away with the shootout victory after coming back from a three-goal deficit.

The Flyers are the ones who came out with more jump to start this game. They ended up scoring the first three goals of the game.

Morgan Frost kicked things off for Philadelphia off the tip in front of a Rasmus Ristolainen shot. During the morning skate, John Tortorella said he wanted to see more offense from Frost. Getting the opening goal of the game is a good start.

Sean Couturier doubled the lead a few minutes later on the breakaway off the stretch pass from Travis Konecny.

As the second period got underway, Emil Andrae blasted one home for his first career goal. But the second period has been a problem for the Flyers when it comes to giving up goals. And they let Vegas back in it.

Jack Eichel, who has been hot for Vegas, got them back into the game before setting up Ivan Barbashev to cut the deficit to one goal.

Always up for the moment, Matvei Michkov never gave up on a play to put the Flyers back up by two. His pass from behind the net was intended for Owen Tippett, but there were players in front. The puck hit off Frost before Michkov circled around the net and fired it by Samsonov.

Not going down without a fight, Pavel Dorofeyev blew one by Ivan Fedotov on the power play toward the end of the second. Tanner Pearson tied the game over midway through the third period. Both are goals you'd like Fedotov to stop as he could see each shot the entire way. They were just blown past him.

Overtime was controlled heavily by the Flyers as they outshot Vegas 7-0 in the extra period. But Vegas got the final laugh as Eichel was the only player to score in the shootout.

Emil Andrae nets first career goal

Andrae has done everything he can during his stint with the Flyers. Well, everything but score that is. He took care of that on Monday night.

The Flyers are going to have an extremely hard decision to make once Jamie Drysdale is healthy enough to play. It's been hard to find anything that Andrae has done wrong during his time with the Flyers this season. He lost some time to injury and did show rust in his first game back.

But he got rewarded in this game. After Garnet Hathaway's shot rebounded off the pad of Ilya Samsonov, Andrae followed the puck and didn't hesitate to blast it into the net. And the excitement in his celebration and on his face tells the entire story. A first career goal is always exciting, but this goal meant so much more than that to Andrae. He was finally rewarded for his strong play.

Flyers blow three-goal lead

The Flyers had Vegas on the ropes in the first period and early in the second. Up 3-0, they were in complete control of the game. But the second period has been their arch-nemesis. They have a goal differential of -18 in the middle frame. The last time they've been on the positive side? That was the second game of the season when the differential was at 0.

There are rarely games where the Flyers aren't finding themselves outscored in the second. Out of their 22 games, they have outscored teams in the second period in only four games. There was one game in which each team scored one goal, but the rest were either more goals for the opponent or none at all.

It's been a concerning trend and something the Flyers need to figure out sooner rather than later. Andrae and Michkov's goals came in the second period, allowing Philadelphia to keep a lead entering the third. But they still allowed three goals to Vegas to bring their differential to -18.

The Flyers' next opponent, the Nashville Predators, has been better at answering in the second period. But they sit with a -12 differential in said period. The Predators have also struggled at times this season. After a loss like this, Philadelphia could use a struggling team. They'll meet in Nashville on Wednesday.