PHILADELPHIA — Travis Konecny opened the scoring in the third period and set up Jaime Drysdale’s goal, Dan Vladar made 26 saves, and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Saturday.
Konecny scored his team-leading 23rd goal of the season, sliding the puck past Jeremy Swayman off a drop pass from Christian Dvorak at 3:41 of the third. Konency then set up Drysdale for a wrister that made it 2-0 with 8:05 left.
Charlie McAvoy scored for Boston on a deflection with 6:57 to go. Flyers captain Sean Couturier got an empty-netter to snap a 31-game goal drought.
Philadelphia won back-to-back games for the first time since Jan. 3-6 to move within six points of Boston for the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference. The Bruins are 5-1-3 in their last nine.
Swayman made 14 saves.
Up next
Bruins: Host Pittsburgh on Tuesday night
Flyers: At Toronto on Monday night
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