Trevor Zegras scored twice in the first 3:38, Tyson Foerster added two goals in the second period and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the New Jersey Devils 5-1 on Tuesday evening at the Prudential Center in Newark.
Zegras opened the scoring at 1:56 and then struck again on the power play at 3:38, giving Philadelphia a 2-0 lead before Cody Glass answered for New Jersey at 12:12 in the first period. By then, Zegras had already reached 24 goals on the season. His second goal gave him 25, a new single-season career high, and his two early strikes were the second-fastest two goals to begin a game in Flyers history.
The Flyers never let the game drift back. Foerster scored twice in the second period, with Matvei Michkov assisting on both goals, and Philadelphia carried a 4-1 lead to the second intermission. Dan Vladar did the rest, stopping 23 of 24 shots, while Jacob Markstrom allowed five goals on 17 shots for the Devils.
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The result completed a sweep of the three-game season series for Philadelphia and kept the Flyers in third place in the Metropolitan Division. For a team trying to hold its position down the stretch, this was the kind of road win that leaves little room for dispute.
