Game one of the Philadelphia Flyers rookie series against the New York Rangers here in Allentown,

when according to plan, they came away with a 4-3 overtime win.

But Saturday's game did not the Flyers.

Rookies fell to the Rangers in the second game of their weekend series by a 5-2 score.

I'm Charlie O'Connor with P.H.L.LY Sports, and these are your Flyers post-game notes.

So as noted, the Flyers did split their weekend series with the Rangers prospects here in Allentown.

Once again, they fell behind 2 to nothing, just like they did on Friday, but this time there was no comeback to be

found. Now, that's not to say the Flyers didn't try. They did cut the deficit to one goal on two

separate occasions, first with a nice shot from Ethan Samson off of a strong Nikita Grubankan pass,

but every time they got close, the Rangers were able to pull back away.

Soon after that, Sandsom goal, the Flyers took two penalties, both unnecessary ones, the first one

from Hunter McDonald, the second one from Ty Merchison, and on that five on three, the Rangers

extended their lead back to two goals, making it three to one.

So then the Flyers pushed back again, another strong play from Grubankin in the neutral zone.

This time got the puck over to Alexi Gendron, who scored on a really nice snipe, and again, it was a one-goal game. But then two minutes later, the Rangers go right back down the ice on a transition rush. Tymerchison lost his man. a two on two becomes a becomes a two-on-one, and a three-two deficit becomes a four-two deficit. They were back down two goals. Really, though, the big story of this game was just how chippy it was. That's what the player said after the game. That's what head coach John Snowden mentioned after the game. It was a bitey game, which is the word that Snowden used actually there was a lot of chirping

there was a lot of physicality a lot of scrums a lot of post whistle shenanigans samu tumala

certainly not known for dropping the gloves actually did get into a fight with a rangers player

after a whistle and if samuamah is dropping the, you know it's an odd game. The Rangers clearly

wanted to muck it up a little bit and it worked for them. Ultimately, though, there was some pushes

by the Flyers in the third period. They could not break through that muck. There were no goals in that

third up until the very end when an Alex bump past that went awry ended up getting on the

stick of Gabe Perra. And Perrault went down the ice with the net empty and put the icing on the cake. 5-2, the final here in Allentown. So who were the standouts in this one? Well, there weren't as many as there were on Friday night, to be sure, when basically the whole team had their moments. But I would say, in my opinion, best player on the ice for the

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