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~ By Pearl Allison Lo

~ Though Philadelphia scored an early goal, that is all San Jose allowed in a 3-1 win Tuesday in the City of Brotherly Love.

The Flyers’ losing streak grew to nine games as they outhit the Sharks 34-12.

Logan Couture had two assists as he, Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Joe Thornton continued points streaks and Justin Braun continued an assist streak.

Aaron Dell was solid in net, as he made 22 saves.

Philadelphia got started early. Jakub Voracek got Dell looking as he shot from the left faceoff circle to Claude Giroux outside the right faceoff circle along the goal line. Giroux now has a five game point streak.

Chris Tierney made a windup shot to even the score at 10:29, aided by Brent Burns and Brenden Dillon.

Trouble began when San Jose got a power play at 16:51. The 5 on 4 then became 5 on 3 when the puck left the ice at 17:32 due to Michael Raffl. Thornton capitalized at 18:42, helped by Couture and Joe Pavelski as the Sharks scored a power play goal for the third game in a row.

The Flyers also incurred another penalty 12 seconds after Raffl’s penalty expired.

Vlasic topped the scoring off at 16:04 of the second period as the puck found its way to the net from near the blue line. Couture and Braun assisted.

Game notes: Braun’s four game point streak is a career-high (Darin Stephens). Sharks’ opponents are now 0-5 in their power play attempts. San Jose’s Melker Karlsson returned for the first time since November 18 and had two hits and one block amidst 11:20 of ice time. The Sharks took 34 shots for the second game in a row. San Jose’s four game road  trip continues on the first day of December, Friday at 4:30pm.