‘Terrific. He’s the only guy that played.’

The “he,” and “the goalie” is Ivan Fedotov.

After Sam Ersson allowed two goals on six shots in the first period, the rookie netminder made his NHL debut. Three days prior, the Flyers introduced Fedotov. He served as the backup on Saturday and was tapped to enter the Monday’s game at the start of the second period.

“It just didn’t look right with Erss, and I’m totally impressed [by Fedotov],” Tortorella said. “I put him in a [heck] of a spot and he’s the only [expletive] player that played in the second period.”

Fedotov did seem to spark the Flyers, albeit only momentarily. He made his first save of the game, an easy one on Mathew Barzal 4:21 into the period. The crowd roared, just like they had during the first four minutes when he stopped the puck behind the net a few times.

Forty-three seconds after making his first NHL save, he again stoned Barzal, this time on a breakaway. Fedotov made a glove stop and then covered the puck on the ice as the crowd went wild and some stood and cheered.

“I’m not a young guy, and have some experience in how it works. I don’t care [about] playing from the first minute or during the game. I need to play,” Fedotov said. “So that doesn’t matter. I just want to help the team and give energy, emotion.”

At 6-foot-7, Fedotov certainly takes up a lot of space, but he consistently squared up to shooters and used his long body to make saves. He closed the five-hole on Kyle McLean; stoned Barzal on a tip a minute later; stopped a Alexander Romanov shot with his left pad as it changed direction; made a stick save on a Brock Nelson wrister from the right side; and squared up on a quick shot by Matt Martin from the right circle.

“We kind of left him [out there] to dry,” Noah Cates said. “He did amazing, had some huge saves. So, really props to him for stepping in and taking care of us in that second. But, we definitely should have recognized the situation … [and] gotten pucks deep and kind of played to our game instead of turning it into a track meeting.”

His only blemish in his first 20 minutes of NHL action — and there was not much he could do on the play — was a goal by Anders Lee off a tip in front on the second-to-last shot he faced in the period.

In the third period, he saved the three shots he saw. “Second period we should play a little bit more aggressive [and] third period was really much better,” Fedotov said.

In overtime — after he was told by his Islanders counterpart Semyon Varlamov to switch sides again, which they do not do in the KHL — he allowed the game-winner to Nelson after Morgan Frost lost the puck in the defensive zone.

Overall, Fedotov looked cool, calm, and collected in net.

“I want to say thanks a lot to the fans, all fans. I’m excited too,” he said. “Really happy to be here.”

‘That was embarrassing in the second period for the Philadelphia Flyer uniform the way we played. Embarrassing. High marks as far as how we came back into the third — some guys.”

Clearly, “some guys” are in the Tortorella doghouse.

“Not the whole game and not the whole group. There are certain people that they don’t have a clue how to play, or just don’t have it in them to play in these type of situations,” he said later in the press conference. “And this is why I’m glad we’re playing [these games] because we have to figure things out as far as what we’re going to become as a team here.”

Who specifically Tortorella was talking about was not disclosed, but a guy like Travis Konecny, who did not see his first shift in the third period until the 7:43 mark — which means he did not play on the power play that started 32 seconds into the period — has to be one. Konecny did have 11 shot attempts and five shots on goal — as well as the secondary assist on Frost’s game-tying goal with 9.6 seconds left in the game — but he was also on the ice for three goals against, including the overtime winner.

Joel Farabee also sat for a roughly eight-minute stretch, although two minutes of that was an Islanders power play and the forward is not a penalty killer. He only saw one shift after he was on the ice for Matt Martin’s tying goal; Cates gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead but Martin scored off a major defensive-zone breakdown among the entire five-man unit, allowing him to be open for the shot. Farabee did have two shots on goal, including a point-blank shot from 17 feet out in the third period. The forward is a little snakebit these days and stayed out well after morning skate Monday morning to work on his shot.

Is Erik Johnson another guy Tortorella was referencing? The veteran, and Stanley Cup champion, certainly does have a clue about these types of meaningful, big games. But he was on the ice for two goals against and only played four shifts after Lee’s 3-2 goal. He did take a hard hit right before the goal and came up looking for a call. After the check in the corner, Konecny got the loose puck and turned it over to Romanov for the point shot, which Lee deflected.

It certainly didn’t help settle things down for the Flyers when Sean Couturier went down with an injury in the first period. Couturier took a hard hit in the corner from Ryan Pulock, right before the Islanders went up ice and Bo Horvat scored to give the Islanders a 2-1 lead. As the Islanders were celebrating, Couturier went straight to the locker room and did not return.

The Flyers don’t play again until Friday. They are off on Tuesday before returning to practice the following to days. Tortorella said after the loss to the Chicago Blackhawks that his team may need some rest. Two nights later he wasn’t necessarily still on the same page.

“Yeah, yeah. We can talk about that [expletive] too. Rest, this, that, the other thing. If you don’t have enough [guts] to play in these types of games, rest doesn’t do us any good,” he said. “Doesn’t do us any good.”