Flyers Vs. Islanders: Early Fights, Late Finish as John Tortorella's Team Snaps 10-Game Skid

Tortorella mentioned the reason for that being Hayes having struggles in low coverage of the defensive zone.

Hayes has been huge for the banged-up Flyers, who are not an offensive team even when fully healthy. The 30-year-old has put up at least a point in 17 of the Flyers' 23 games. He has 24 points in those 23 games. "Still makes mistakes, but a lot of our other guys do, too. So we're going to continue working with him. I'm trying to take a little pressure off of him because we need his damn offense. I want him to concentrate on that, too, and not lose sight there.

Kieffer Bellows and Rasmus Ristolainen committed a pair of penalties in the opening three minutes that resulted in a 5-on-3 goal for New York. Ristolainen finished with a real solid game on the top pair alongside Ivan Provorov.

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