The New York Islanders suffered their second straight loss, falling 5-3 at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night at UBS Arena.

Sean Couturier, Garnet Hathaway and Morgan Frost scored in the second period Thursday night for the Philadelphia Flyers, who beat the New York Islanders 5-3 in Elmont, N.Y.

Sean Couturier had a goal and an assist, Travis Konecny added three assists and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the New York Islanders 5-3 on Thursday night. Morgan Frost, Garnet Hathaway, Cam York and Noah Cates also scored for Philadelphia. Samuel Ersson made 26 saves as the Flyers won for the third time in four games.

Sean Couturier had a goal and an assist, Travis Konecny added three assists and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Islanders 5-3 on Thursday night.

In the sixteenth weekly Metropolitan Division snapshot, the Carolina Hurricanes made a huge trade, five teams won their week, and the New York Islanders are out of the basement. All this and more in this week’s snapshot.

The Philadelphia Flyers are back in action tonight as they take on the New York Islanders in the second game of a back-to-back.

The Flyers points streak came to an end on Thursday night against the Rangers. The good news is that they immediately get a chance to erase that result on Friday night. The Flyers face the New York Islanders for the second time in eight days, as the two meet once again on Long Island. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

In the third period, the teams seesawed two goals apiece: Mathew Barzal and Anders Lee (power play) scored for the Islanders but Philly answered with goals by Cam York and Noah Cates (empty net ...

Morgan Frost, Garnet Hathaway, Cam York and Noah Cates also scored for Philadelphia ... Bo Horvat, Mathew Barzal and Anders Lee scored for New York. Ilya Sorokin stopped 19 shots after a two ...

The PSPCA was able to rescue the pups, and even named them all after Flyers players: Coots (after captain Sean Couturier), Catesy (after forward Noah Cates), Sanny (after defenseman Travis Sanheim ...

Lee scored a goal and added four hits in Saturday's 3-2 overtime win over the Hurricanes. Lee ended a three-game dry spell, his longest since November, with a third-period goal to tie the game at 2-2.

The 18 NHLers are Alex Lyon, Jake Bischoff, Derek Forbort, Aaron Ness, Mitch Reinke, Jimmy Schuldt, Nick Seeler, Matt Kiersted, Mikey Anderson, Nick Bjugstad, Noah Cates, Jake Guentzel ...