PHILADELPHIA _ Allowing two short-handed goals on the same power play is not a recipe for success.
Yet, the Flyers overcame that development Thursday night and rallied past Arizona in overtime, 5-4, at the Wells Fargo Center.
Defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere won it with 3 minutes, 59 seconds left in overtime. He also set up Dale Weise's breakaway goal _ his first tally of the season _ with 2:13 left in regulation to knot the game at 4-4.
Earlier in the third, Scott Laughton's second goal of the game, a rebound with 17:39 remaining, cut Arizona's deficit to 4-3.
The win gave the Flyers a 4-0-1 record in their last five games.
The Flyers blew an early 2-0 lead, allowed two short-handed goals on the same power play, but recovered in the third period and OT.
They were coming off a 3-0-1 trip out West, which lifted their road record to 5-3-1.
The game turned in Arizona's favor when Derek Stepan and speedy Michael Grabner _ a free-agent signee who would have helped the Flyers' dreadful penalty kill _ scored short-handed goals 24 seconds apart to give Arizona a 4-2 lead.
Stepan took the puck away from Gostisbehere in the neutral zone, and he went in alone as the Flyers defenseman ran into linesman Michel Cormier. Stepan beat Cal Pickard with a backhander to give the Coyotes a 3-2 lead. (The players on the Flyers' bench and Gostisbehere were irate with the lineman.)
Grabner then outraced Jake Voracek for a loose puck and put another backhander past Pickard with to make it 4-2 with 13:22 left in the second. It was Arizona's league-leading ninth (ninth!) short-handed goal in 14 games this season.
To put that in perspective, 14 teams entered the night with nine or fewer power-play goals, including the Flyers (eight).
After Grabner's goal, Brian Elliott replaced Pickard, who allowed four goals on 18 shots.
The Flyers, a 5-2 winner Monday in Arizona, scored first for the fourth straight time and built a 2-0 lead in the first 5:47.
Travis Konecny took a clever give-and-go feed from Claude Giroux and scored just 1:18 into the game, putting a backhander past Darcy Kuemper. About 4{ minutes later, Laughton outworked two Coyotes in front and scored on a backhander to make it 2-0.
Arizona cut the deficit to 2-1 as defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored on a point drive, whipping a low shot past screened goalie Cal Pickard. It marked the ninth straight game the Flyers had allowed at least one power-play goal. Their penalty kill began the night ranked 30th in the 31-team NHL, clicking at just 69.1 percent.
The Coyotes outscored the Flyers 3-0 in the second period and outshot the hosts, 15-7. That explains why the home team received loud boos as it went to the locker room after the session ended.
The Flyers regrouped, however, and had a strong third period to send the game into overtime and set the stage for Gostisbehere's sixth OT goal of his career.
