The Philadelphia Flyers played a great game on Saturday to open their series against the Pittsburgh Penguins. They went into a hostile environment, outplayed a veteran, playoff-tested team on the road, and came away with a big-time win in Game 1.

With that, you have to know a team like the Penguins is going to come into Game 2 hungry. They are going to play with a chip on their shoulder, looking to come back and avoid going down 2-0 before the series heads back to Philadelphia.

So, the Flyers are going to have to clean things up. It’s going to have to be a perfect Game 2 if they want to take the series lead back to home ice.

After a win like that, it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what needs improvement before Game 2. But on Sunday, the areas for improvement seem abundantly clear.

So, here is where the Flyers can improve for Game 2.

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“I’ll be honest, I thought we had opportunities for more goals,” said Flyers head coach Rick Tocchet ahead of Sunday’s practice.

“That’s a criticism. I mean, I love our chances. I just don’t think we convert them. We had a couple of two-on-ones. We had a breakaway, a couple of breakaways. We had some areas where, if we made the play, we had some more offense. So I would say, I think we get more offense if we just bear it down a little bit.”

Tocchet is right. Per NaturalStatTrick, the Flyers had 9 high danger scoring chances. Despite that, they actually outscored their expected goals of 2.77.

Despite allowing 3 goals on just 20 shots, Stuart Skinner played excellently for the Penguins. Without him playing the way he did, it could have been a much higher score.

To beat a Penguins team that will inevitably enter Monday’s Game 2 with an increased intensity, they have to convert more of those looks.

Part of that needing to convert comes down to power play.

The Flyers had 3 power play opportunities on Saturday. They only registered two shots on Skinner. That simply has to be better.

Whistles are hardly blown as often as they are in the regular season in the playoffs. That limits the number of opportunities given. Any team has to take advantage of those opportunities.

The Flyers did a good job on the Penalty kill, keeping the Penguins’ power play at bay. However, with the scoring pedigree they have on the power play, can Philly really keep Pittsburgh’s power play off the board throughout the series? Survey says no.

That said, the Flyers HAVE to take advantage of those opportunities when given. Power play struggles have been an issue all season. Tocchet has recognized that before. But he’s also said that they’re too deep into the season to make any real change. They need to rely on the talent they have to make plays and score with no structural change.

It’s not impossible, but teams rarely win playoff series without scoring power-play goals. It has to get better if they want to take hold of the series on Monday.

The Flyers, at least between Sean Couturier and Cristian Dvorak, have been good at the faceoff dot all season. That got even better when they added Luke Glendening off waivers at the deadline.

You would have never been able to tell on Saturday.

The Penguins went 29/49 at the dot, 59.2%. That, my friends, is domination. Unsurprisingly, Sean Couturier was excellent. He went 5/8, 63%. He was the only Flyer above 45% at the dot on Saturday. The surprising part is that Luke Glendening and Christian Dvorak struggled mightily.