Flyers’ MacDonald frustrated by overturned goal

MacDonald appeared to give his team a 1-0 lead less than two minutes into the game, but Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella challenged the play because he felt his goalie, Sergei Bobrovsky , was impeded from making the save. As you can tell from the video at the top of the page, Michael Raffl never touched Bobrovsky, but Jackets defenseman Ryan Murray did because the Flyers forward nudged him into his own goalie.

Flyers’ Konecny benched; Pronger returning to ice

In a surprising move, speedy rookie left winger Travis Konecny, who had two assists in Wednesday’s 6-3 loss in St. Louis, was benched Friday against San Jose. It was the first benching of the season for Konecny, who has four goals, 14 assists, 18 points, and a minus-2 rating in 37 games.

Wednesday’s NHL roundup

Jakub Voracek and Wayne Simmonds scored in the shootout, Steve Mason made 36 saves and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Wednesday night in Philadelphia. Michael Raffl and Claude Giroux scored in regulation for Philadelphia, which ended a two-game skid that followed a 10-game winning streak.

Flyers fight past Capitals in shootout

Sam Carchidi became an Inquirer staff writer in 1984 and covered mostly South Jersey high school sports and the Phillies before taking the Flyers beat. Carchidi has written three books: the nationally acclaimed Miracle in the Making: The Adam Taliaferro Story, which he co-authored with Scott Brown; Bill Campbell: The Voice of Philadelphia Sports ; and Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story , which was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show.