Ottawa Senators’ Linus Ullmark was “not his best” in the overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers

Ottawa Senators goalkeeper Linus Ullmark struggled when his team at the Philadelphia Flyers Thursday evening 5-4 in extra time.

The 31-year-old netminder allowed five goals on 19 shots, including rookie sensation Matvei Michkov’s overtime winner on a shot from an acute angle with 55 seconds left.

Ottawa looked to dominate the Flyers at times Thursday, peppering goaltender Ivan Fedotov with 37 shots and creating significant time between opponents’ scoring chances.

However, the Flyers were able to take advantage of the few chances they had to win.

“Not his best,” Senators head coach Travis Green said of Ullmark after the game. “We’ve been playing well here for three games. You hate to lose a game like that where you dominated in many areas for most of the night. Tough game for Linus, as far as him having seven shots after that, I don’t. ” I don’t know, about 35 minutes. These are not easy games for the goalkeeper.”

Ullmark entered Thursday’s game having won his last two games, including a 27-save shutout performance against the Toronto maple leaves on Tuesday.

The 6-foot-2 netminder has a 4-4-1 record with a 2.77 goals-against average and an .890 save percentage and missed five games with a strain earlier this season.

This is Ullmark’s first season with the Senators after being acquired from the Boston Bruins in exchange for a goalkeeper Joonas Korpisaloforward Mark Kastelicand a draft pick last June.

“A couple of unfortunate goals that I would like to get back, but I thought we fought through it and I think we deserved two points tonight,” Ullmark said after the defeat. “(I went down) thinking the hole is closed, and for some unknown reason (Mikkov’s shot) goes in. I can’t tell you how it goes in or why it goes in. Probably, If I did that 100 more times I would do the exact same thing. So I was just as shocked as everyone else in the building it actually entered.

Despite the win, Flyers head coach John Tortorella was critical of his team and expressed shock at the result.

“It’s the National Hockey League at its best,” Tortorella said. “You play as bad as we do and then come out on top. I just… have no idea.”

Next up for Ottawa is a road game against the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday night before beginning a four-game homestand that begins Tuesday against Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oil Companieswhich can be seen LIVE on TSN5 by viewers in the Senators’ region at 7:00 PM ET.