Flyers avoid disaster after blowing 3-0 lead, beat Islanders

Flyers avoid disaster after blowing 3-0 lead, beat Islanders: Oskar Lindblom’s second goal of the game snapped a tie with 2:22 left in the third period Thursday night for the visiting Philadelphia Flyers, who squandered a three-goal, third-period lead before bouncing back from a historic defeat by edging the New York Islanders 4-3 in Uniondale, N.Y. The Flyers, playing fewer than 24 hours after […]

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