Scott Laughton scored a career-high four goals to snap a drought and beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4-1 against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night.
After scoring just once in his previous 25 games, Laughton had his second career hat trick and became the first Flyers player to score four goals since John LeClair in 2002.
Laughton opened the scoring in the second period with a breakaway goal after a slap shot from the left circle. He added a short-handed goal in the third, off a pass from Travis Konecny, and had two goals with an empty net.
Aleksei Kolosov made 25 saves for his fourth win of the season.
Ben Chiarot scored a late goal for Detroit, his first of the season. The Red Wings have lost six of seven games.
Red Wings: Cam Talbot tried to keep the Red Wings in the game and made several highlight reel plays when the game was scoreless. In the span of three minutes, he made an extended glove save on Matvei Michkov, a sliding pad stop on Joel Farabee and stoned Sean Couturier on a breakaway. Later in the period, Talbot thwarted Michkov’s attempt to score a goal during a “Michigan” wraparound play, picking up the puck on his blade behind the net and attempting to put it into the top corner of the net.
Flyers: Konecny had two assists to extend his point streak to four games.
Travis Sanheim blocked a shot attempt by Vladimir Tarasenko on Detroit’s power play early in the third period, setting up Konecny and Laughton on a 2-on-1 breakaway that led to Laughton’s second goal.
Laughton’s second goal was the 100th of his NHL career.
Detroit hosts Toronto on Saturday. Philadelphia plays Minnesota on Saturday.
