PHILADELPHIA – Scott Laughton scored a career-best four goals to help the Philadelphia Flyers break a losing streak and beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Thursday night.

After scoring just once in his last 25 games, Laughton scored his second career hat trick and became the first Flyers player to score four goals since John LeClair in 2002.

Laughton scored the lead in the second period with a slap shot from the left circle. He added a shorthanded goal in the third period off a pass from Travis Konecny ​​and scored two empty-net goals.

Aleksei Kolosov made 25 saves for his fourth win of the season.

Ben Chiarot scored a late goal for Detroit, his first goal of the season. The Red Wings have lost six of seven games.

Takeaways

Red Wings: Cam Talbot tried to keep the Red Wings in the game and made several highlight reel stops when the game was scoreless. In the span of three minutes, he saved Matvei Michkov with a glove, stopped Joel Farabee with a sliding pad and stoned Sean Couturier on a breakaway. Later in the period, Talbot thwarted Michkov’s attempt to score on a “Michigan” corner play in which he picked up the puck with his blade behind the net and attempted to tuck it into the top corner of the net.

Flyers: Konecny ​​had two assists to extend his point streak to four games.

Key moment

Travis Sanheim blocked a shot attempt by Vladimir Tarasenko on Detroit’s power play early in the third period, prompting Konecny ​​and Laughton to engage in a 2-on-1 that resulted in Laughton’s second goal.

Key statistics

Laughton’s second goal was the 100th of his NHL career.

Next

Detroit hosts Toronto on Saturday. Philadelphia is at Minnesota on Saturday.

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