PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Cale Makar scored two goals, Casey Mittelstadt scored one and Justus Annunen had 24 saves to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night in a game where a referee was stretchered off the ice. Makar is off to a sensational scoring start for a defenseman. He beat Aleksei Kolosov for his seventh and eighth goals of the season and now has 27 points in 19 games.
Leading 2-0 in the third, Mittelstadt scored his seventh goal of the season. Owen Tippett and Tyson Foerster scored for the Flyers in the third to bring it to 3-2. Avalanche: Colorado won for the fourth time in five games.
Flyers: Philadelphia snapped a modest three-game winning streak. They had been playing better of late after a rough start to the season. They have three more games left on the homestand.
Referee Mitch Dunning was involved in a violent collision with Colorado defenseman Josh Manson early in the first period. Dunning is fully communicative and can move his extremities. The NHL said Dunning was taken to a hospital for precautionary reasons and that all neurological signs are normal.
1,000. Flyers defenseman Erik Johnson was honored for playing in his 1,000th career game, a win over Buffalo on Saturday. Johnson, the No.
1 pick of the 2006 NHL draft, played the bulk of his career with the Avalanche and helped lead them to a Stanley Cup title in 2022. Peyton Manning was among the celebrities who congratulated Johnson on his milestone in a pregame .