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PHILADELPHIA -- With the Philadelphia Flyers in subpar form on Tuesday night, goalie Steve Mason made all the difference. Ray Whitney Jersey .Mason made 42 saves and Jakub Voracek scored with 8.6 seconds left in overtime, lifting the Flyers to their sixth straight win, 3-2 over the Florida Panthers.Wayne Simmonds had two goals for the Flyers, who are on their longest winning streak in five years.Mason, who earned the NHLs First Star of the Week on Monday, won his fifth straight start.We werent clicking, we werent the team with more energy, but in the end we found a way, Flyers coach Dave Hakstol said. The biggest thing is the saves we got. It was one of those nights where (Mason) was our best player.Aleksander Barkov and Jussi Jokinen scored for Florida, which completed a six-game road trip with five losses although the Panthers picked up points in three of those defeats by losing in overtime.Interim coach Tom Rowe was pleased with Floridas effort against the Flyers.It was amazing how we came at them, he said. A lot of good stuff happened. I told the guys after the game that as frustrating as it is and as mad as some of you may be, there are too many positives here to get down.Mason turned aside Floridas best chance in overtime when he denied Aaron Ekblads slap shot from close range.Simmonds notched his 28th multigoal game and second in two games when he deflected Claude Girouxs wrist shot past James Reimer for a 2-1 lead with 9:52 remaining in the second period. It was Simmonds NHL-leading eighth power-play goal and snapped Floridas streak of penalty kills at 18.Im playing with great linemates, great teammates, Simmonds said. Its definitely not all me.Mason kept Philadelphia ahead with his best save of the night six minutes into the third period when he robbed Jokinen with a sprawling glove save on a rebound chance from in close.I went down to my right there and made a desperation attempt to get anything on it, Mason said. Fortunately, I was able to get the glove on it.Jokinen finally beat Mason, tying the game at 2 with 4:46 remaining in the third with a wrist shot from just in front of the goal that went past Masons glove.Overall, we played well, Jokinen said. If we keep playing like weve been playing, well get lots of points.Barkov put the Panthers ahead 1-0 with 4:20 remaining in the first period when he shot from just right of the Flyers goalie, giving the Panthers center nine points in his last 10 games.Simmonds tied it 1 1/2 minutes later with a wrist shot from the high slot, a soft goal that got past backup goalie Reimers glove. The score masked a dominant first period for the Panthers, who outshot Philadelphia 15-6 and mightve gone to the break ahead if not for Masons stellar play.Reimer finished with 22 saves.Florida defenseman Keith Yandle played in his 578th game a night after leaving in the first period with a lower-body injury. Yandle has the 10th longest games played streak ever, but it was thought to be in jeopardy after Rowe said Monday night that he expected Yandle to be out for a while.(Monday) night I thought hed be out for a couple of weeks, but that shows you how tough he is mentally and physically, Rowe said. Its great for the young kids to see that. It was a game where he couldve mailed it in easily and nobody wouldve said a word, but thats the kind of teammate he is.Game notes Philadelphia improved to 6-3 in overtime while Florida dropped to 7-4. ... The Panthers were without C Jonathan Marchessault (lower body), who leads the club in goals (10) and points (19), for the second straight game. ... The teams wrap up their three-game season series on March 2 in Philadelphia. ... Flyers D Radko Gudas (illness) missed his third straight game. ... Flyers RW Matt Read (upper body) missed the first game of whats expected to be a monthlong absence. He was replaced by Taylor Leier, who was called up from Lehigh Valley of the AHL for his first NHL game of the season and seventh of his career. ... Florida, which lost 4-3 in overtime Monday night at Boston, dropped to 2-2 on the second game of a back-to-back. ... Philadelphias winning streak is its best since seven straight victories Dec. 2-15, 2011.UP NEXTPanthers: Begin a two-game homestand Thursday night against Pittsburgh.Flyers: Play the middle contest of a three-game homestand against Edmonton on Thursday night. Christian Fischer Jersey . The 29-year-old from Port Colborne, Ont., has nothing but good things to say about former U.S. marine Liz (Girlrilla) Carmouche ahead of their co-main event Wednesday on the UFCs "Fight for the Troops" televised card in Fort Campbell, Ky. Custom Arizona Coyotes Jerseys . -- Running backs Darren McFadden and Rashad Jennings were back at practice for the Oakland Raiders on Wednesday despite being hampered by hamstring injuries. https://www.cheapcoyotes.com/ . The 15th-ranked Canadian men lost the opening two games of their European tour: 19-15 to No. 17 Georgia and 21-20 to No. Five-star point guard?Quade Green?has committed to Kentucky.Green chose the Wildcats over Syracuse, although Villanova, Temple and Duke were also on his final list of five schools.Syracuse appeared to be the prohibitive favorite for Green for most of the fall, taking the lead from Duke in late August. The Orange hosted Green on at least four visits since the summer, but Green was impressed with Kentucky when he visited Lexington for Big Blue Madness. The Wildcats offered Green in June and remained heavily involved in his recruitment.Green, a Neumann-Goretti High School (Pennsylvania) product, is ranked No. 22 in the ESPN 100 for 2017. The No. 3 point guard in the class, Green pushed into five-star status after an impressive spring and summer with the PSA Cardinals on the Nike EYBL circuit. He averaged 14.9 points, 9.8 assists and 3.2 steals, leading the competition in the latter two categories. At 6-foot-1, Green is at his best when attacking the basket, utilizing change of speed and crafty dribbling ability to beat his man and get into the lane. He has excellent passing vision and has improved his offensive arsenal, including his 3-point shoooting, floater and midrange game. Arizona Coyotes Pro Shop. Kentucky badly needed guards in the 2017 class, with freshmen DeAaron Fox and Malik Monk and sophomore Isaiah Briscoe all potentially leaving for the NBA draft next spring. There are zero scholarship guards on the roster expected to return to Lexington next season. The Wildcats landed four-star point guard?Shai Gilgeous-Alexander?(No. 44) in the middle of the early signing period, but the two incoming point guards are capable of playing together.Green and Gilgeous-Alexander join a recruiting class that was ranked in the top five entering the week. John Calipari and Kentucky had zero 2017 commits prior to the early signing period, but five-star frontcourt prospects?Nick Richards?(No. 12) and?P.J. Washington?(No. 16) committed on the same day in mid-November.Calipari remains involved with five-star forwards Kevin Knox (No. 7), Mohamed Bamba (No. 4) and Jarred Vanderbilt (No. 23), and he could also look at wing prospects moving forward, primarily Hamidou Diallo (No. 13). ' ' '
