Philadelphia Flyers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Friday, December 29, 2017 · Amalie Arena
TVAS · SUN · NBCSP
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5–3 on Friday, December 29, 2017 at Amalie Arena. The Flyers outshot the Lightning 38–27.
Goals came from Steven Stamkos, Wayne Simmonds, Shayne Gostisbehere, Brayden Point, Sean Couturier, Brandon Manning, Tyler Johnson and Valtteri Filppula.
Brian Elliott made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Peter Budaj stopped 29 of 33.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Steven Stamkos (16)Nikita Kucherov (29), Victor Hedman (23)0–107:27 TBL ·
2nd period
Wayne Simmonds (12)Sean Couturier (17), Jakub Voracek (37)1–106:56 PHI · 
Shayne Gostisbehere (8)Wayne Simmonds (11), Claude Giroux (31)2–110:03 PHI · 
Brayden Point (16)Ondrej Palat (17), Nikita Kucherov (30)2–215:37 TBL
Sean Couturier (18)Claude Giroux (32), Travis Konecny (8)3–219:48 PHI
3rd period
Brandon Manning (4)Claude Giroux (33), Travis Konecny (9)4–201:53 PHI
Tyler Johnson (10)Unassisted4–308:58 TBL · 
Valtteri Filppula (9)Jakub Voracek (38), Sean Couturier (18)5–319:27 PHI ·
Team stats
PHITBL
3827
56%44%
2/61/3
612
1414
2112
55
86
Penalties
- 7:08 into the first period
Jakub Voracek · tripping2 min - 8:45 into the first period
Cory Conacher · hooking2 min - 12:15 into the first periodValtteri Filppula · hooking2 min
- 18:49 into the first periodAndrej Sustr · slashing2 min
- 5:49 into the second periodBraydon Coburn · hooking2 min
- 9:30 into the second periodNikita Kucherov · slashing2 min
- 7:12 into the third periodAlex Killorn · tripping2 min
- 11:25 into the third periodVictor Hedman · tripping2 min
- 13:17 into the third periodDale Weise · high sticking2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 14Sean CouturierC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 21:15 |
| 28Claude GirouxR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 19:54 |
| 11Travis KonecnyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 12:44 |
| 17Wayne SimmondsR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 19:14 |
| 93Jakub VoracekR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 20:15 |
| 51Valtteri FilppulaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:21 |
| 23Brandon ManningD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:50 |
| 53Shayne GostisbehereD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22:06 |
| 12Michael RafflL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:42 |
| 15Jori LehteraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:05 |
| 19Nolan PatrickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:23 |
| 21Scott LaughtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:42 |
| 22Dale WeiseR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:26 |
| 40Jordan WealC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:38 |
| 3Radko GudasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:32 |
| 8Robert HaggD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:53 |
| 9Ivan ProvorovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:05 |
| 47Andrew MacDonaldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Michal NeuvirthG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Brian ElliottG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 86Nikita KucherovR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 20:27 |
| 9Tyler JohnsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 19:54 |
| 18Ondrej PalatL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:20 |
| 21Brayden PointC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 19:57 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:42 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 27:43 |
| 13Cedric PaquetteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:33 |
| 14Chris KunitzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:37 |
| 17Alex KillornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:16 |
| 37Yanni GourdeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 89Cory ConacherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:43 |
| 90Vladislav NamestnikovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:59 |
| 5Dan GirardiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 21:43 |
| 29Slater KoekkoekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:09 |
| 55Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:44 |
| 59Jake DotchinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:12 |
| 62Andrej SustrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:39 |
| 98Mikhail SergachevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:53 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Peter BudajG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
| 88Andrei VasilevskiyG | 4 | 0 | 1.000 |