Pavel Zacha scores in OT as Bruins rally past Flyers

BOSTON Pavel Zacha scored 2:49 into overtime, and the Boston Bruins beat the Flyers 4-3 on Saturday for their fourth straight victory.

Bostons Brad Marchand tied it with 5:22 left in regulation.

Trent Frederic had the other two goals for Boston, which is 7-2 since interim coach Joe Sacco took over for the fired Jim Montgomery.

Zacha scored the winner after Boston goalie Jeremy Swayman stopped Joel Farabees breakaway seconds earlier.

Rookie Matvei Michkov scored two first-period goals for the Flyers in their second straight loss.

Cam York also scored, and Travis Sanheim had two assists.

Coming off a frustrating loss against Florida when they gave up a season-high seven goals, the Flyers blew a third-period lead for the second game in a row, which left coach John Tortorella was frustrated with a couple of calls late.

Let me start: One thing I teach my team to do is not dive, he said in opening his postgame press conference.

Maybe I should start teaching them that.

The way this has gone here ...

maybe I should teach them to dive.

The Flyers were called for two tripping penalties neither of them led to goals in the third period.

They also were whistled for a tripping that led to a goal in the second.

Boston scored twice in the third period of its fourth consecutive win.

The Flyers blew a third-period lead for the second straight game.

Im not going to go too far into it, Tortorella said.

Thats one of the things we talk about as a team: Weve got to play an honest game.

Theres no cheating, theres no embarrassing referees.

You dont embarrass the referees.

Michkov scored a power-play goal at 7:24 when he one-timed a shot from the right circle off a short tip pass from Sean Couturier.

His second came on a redirected shot at the edge of the crease.

Takeaways Flyers: Leading all rookies in scoring coming into the day with nine goals and 22 points, Michkov had three assists in his last game on Thursday.

Bruins: Sacco used star winger David Pastrnak on the top line with Brad Marchand for the second straight game and the first two times this season after Marchand scored two goals in Bostons last game.

Key moment Marchand hustled to a puck deep in the offensive zone, skated around Tyson Foerster and slid the puck between Aleksei Kolosovs pads for the tying goal.

Up next The Flyers have a quick turnaround, hosting Utah on Sunday..

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