Ben Simmons Leaves Injured in Sixers Loss to Utah & Flyers Take Down the Hurricanes!!

The Philadelphia Sixers lose their second game in a row and fall in Utah by a score of 106-104. The score does not tell the story. First of all, Ben Simmons left the game 10 minutes in with a sprained AC joint in his right shoulder. He will be reevaluated on Thursday. The Sixers got abused on the glass and the Jazz outworked them completely. Joel Embiid returned with 27 points and 16 rebounds, but the team is clearly struggling to get other players involved when he is clogging up the middle offensively. Tobias Harris struggled until the fourth when Embiid wasn't in the paint as much. Al Horford shot 3 of 13 after a couple games of being a threat on that side of the court. Donovan Mitchell recorded 24 points, but he took 23 shots. Josh Richardson had his best game as a Sixers with 24 points of his own. They had a chance to beat the Jazz late, but came up short down the stretch with mental errors. I thought they played awful even though the final score didn't show it.
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Carolina Hurricanes by a score of 4-1. Carolina definitely controlled the game for the first 40 minutes, but Carter Hart stood on his head. It was a remarkable performance by the young netminder. The Flyers scored first thanks to Matt Niskanen throwing a puck on net and Sean Couturier getting his stick on it to take an early lead on the power play. About six minutes into the second, Carolina responded to tie the game on a goal with some nice puck movement. The third period was all Flyers. They scored three goals thanks to Travis Konecny, Joel Farabee, and Claude Giroux. It was one of those games where they didn't control the game, but came out on top. It seems like they were rewarded after being on the other side of a couple games like this earlier in the season.