TORONTO _ Sean Couturier did it again Saturday night.
For the third time in eight days, Couturier scored the game-winner after regulation as the Flyers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-2, in a shootout. It was arguably their most important win of the season as Couturier beat Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen in the one-on-one.
The Flyers seem to show improvement each game, but road wins have been hard to come by so far this season. They scored the game's first two goals, but Toronto tied it in the third to send it to the extra action.
Flyers goalie Brian Elliott made 38 saves, including a clutch blocker stop of a William Nylander shot, while the Flyers were shorthanded at the end of overtime.
Andersen also was magnificent for the Leafs, stopping 30 shots during an entertaining first three periods.
The two Flyers goals in the first period were by 23-year-old Oskar Lindblom and 22-year-old Phil Myers, who scored for the second game in a row. For Lindblom, it was his eighth goal of the season. Last year, he scored goal No. 8 in game No. 55.
"I ... had a lot of time, and I got open down low," Lindblom said after the first intermission. "The goalie wasn't really ready for the tip. ... It went off my knee."
The Leafs lost second-leading scorer Mitch Marner after he tumbled awkwardly on his right ankle after getting tangled up with Carsen Twarynski on the face-off to start the second period.
One of Elliott's other top saves came on a Leafs short-handed chance when the puck hopped over Ivan Provorov's stick right to Ilya Mikheyev. Elliott closed the five hole just in time.
Andersen denied Andy Andreoff and Michael Raffl on successive chances in the third period.
After the game, the Flyers hustled out of ScotiaBank Arena and jetted down to Boston for Sunday night's game against the Bruins, who figure to be a little salty after losing to lowly Detroit on Friday night.
The Flyers took two of three games last season against Boston, which represented the East in the Stanley Cup Finals. Travis Sanheim scored in overtime to snap a four-game Flyers' losing streak at TD Garden. The Flyers haven't won in regulation in Boston since Oct. 6, 2011 (a span of 11 games). Jake Voracek had the game-winner that night in what was his first game as a Flyer.
Boston lost on Friday to a Detroit team that had been 1-11-2 in its last 14. The Bruins top line of Brad Marchand-Patrice Bergeron-David Pastrnak, which is arguable the best group in hockey, each was a -2. Boston is 7-0-1 at home this year.
