DETROIT _ Rookie goalie Anthony Stolarz, who started the Flyers' eight-game winning streak in his NHL debut last month, extended the victory string to nine with an outstanding performance Sunday night in Detroit.
In what was probably their last game at Joe Louis Arena, the Flyers defeated the Red Wings in overtime, 1-0, as Stolarz recorded his first career shutout and Brayden Schenn collected the game-winner.
Schenn, who had a hat trick Saturday, scored on a backhander with 2 minutes, 16 seconds left in overtime, and Stolarz made 28 saves.
The Flyers' nine-game winning streak equals their longest since 1995, when Eric Lindros led the way.
The Flyers are 6-1-1 in the second half of back-to-back games. It was just their fourth win in Detroit in 28 years.
Jimmy Howard stopped Pierre-Edouard Bellemare from in front with 3:07 to go in overtime after a great setup by Travis Konecny, who stole the puck and weaved past a defender.
With the game scoreless, Detroit scored on a scramble in front with 17:19 left in the third period. But the goal was waved off because it was ruled that Flyers defenseman Radko Gudas knocked the net off its moorings before the goal was scored.
Gudas was incorrectly given a delay-of-game penalty; replays showed he was pushed into the net by the Red Wings' Luke Glendening.
The Flyers killed the penalty and another one (Wayne Simmonds, delay of game) a short time later. That made them 5 for 5 on the night and on a 16-for-17 streak.
With 11:57 to go, the Flyers got a power play after Xavier Ouellet pounded Michael Raffl in a fight and was given an extra two minutes for instigation. But Howard made three saves on the power play, keeping the hard-fought game scoreless.
Stolarz stopped all 16 shots he faced in the first two periods as the teams were locked in a scoreless tie.
The 22-year-old New Jersey native, making his second NHL start and his second appearance in the last month, made key first-period saves on Tomas Tatar and Mike Green, and later was fortunate that Gustav Nyquist fired over the net with a point-blank shot midway through the period.
Stolarz made 11 more saves in the second period, one in which the Flyers adroitly killed two penalties, allowing a total of just one shot in those four minutes.
Howard had 22 saves heading into the final period, including a terrific pad stop on Nick Cousins, who made a slick move to shake free for a close shot with 12:10 left in the second.
Howard also made nice stops on Simmonds and Roman Lyubimov in the second period.
Steve Mason rested Sunday after starting 13 of the previous 14 games.
"It's a good day for Mase to have a day off, and also Stolie did a good job in his first start and he's done a great job in practice," coach Dave Hakstol said before the game. "As we go through this busy stretch, this is a game we looked at, depending on circumstances, to get Stolie to start."
Stolarz allowed a pair of shorthanded goals but was solid in his debut, a 5-3 win over Calgary on Nov. 27. He made 29 saves in that victory.
The Flyers were trying to register their first nine-game winning streak since late in the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season. They won eight straight that season in March, then put together a nine-game streak in April.
Lindros, Mikael Renberg, John LeClair, Rod Brind'Amour, and Eric Desjardins were the leaders on that team, which had Ron Hextall and Dominic Roussel as its goalies and lost to New Jersey in the Eastern Conference finals.
