Konecny returned for the third period and scored his second of the night with a wrist shot to cut it 3-2 at 4:08.
“Good teams find a way to win, and we found a way to win tonight,” Blue Jackets coach Rick Bowness said. “I think early in that third period, you give their goalie credit, some of those huge saves he made. So, we could have made that 4-1 very easily, but the goalie, that’s his job to stop the puck, and he did.”
Konecny notched the hat trick to tie it 3-3 at 15:14. He redirected a backdoor pass from Travis Sanheim at the left circle and put it past Merzlikins, but the Blue Jackets responded on Monahan’s goal.
“We just shot ourselves in the foot a few times, and they capitalized on them,” Sanheim said. “We just weren’t executing the way that we need to at this level, and it cost us.”
Olivier put a wrist shot into the empty net for the 5-3 final at 18:54.
NOTES: Blue Jackets defenseman Denton Mateychuk had two shots, two giveaways and one takeaway in 16:57 of ice time in his return from being out six games with an upper-body injury, and forward Miles Wood played 7:30 with two hits after missing 12 games with a lower-body injury. … Flyers defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen played two shifts totaling 1:01 before exiting with a lower-body injury at 2:20 of the first period. Tocchet did not have an update.