Flyers destroy Blackhawks 5-1, ridding themselves of the demons at home in March

The Flyers came into Thursday night at Xfinity Mobile Arena with a serious home ice problem.

One win in their last five games at the Bank. A 1.80 goals per game average at home in March. A loss to the Blue Jackets on Tuesday that dropped them to 1-3-1 in South Philly this month. They needed a statement performance in front of their own crowd and they delivered one.

Five goals. Nine players with at least a point. A 5-1 win over the Blackhawks that was never close from the moment Alex Bump scored 48 seconds into the first period.

Bump forced Spencer Knight into a turnover and buried it before a minute had elapsed. Then Couturier made it 2-0 in the first off a feed from Luke Glendening. Just 2:33 into the game the Flyers had two goals and Chicago was already chasing.

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Barkey made it 3-0 in the second on a rebound after Zegras attacked the net. Connor Bedard trimmed it to 3-1 but the Flyers answered with two more before the second intermission was over.

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Cates and Dvorak each added goals, Dvorak’s coming at the doorstep off an Owen Tippett feed in the final minute of the middle period. The game was over before the third puck dropped.

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Samuel Ersson was excellent. Twenty-five saves on 26 shots, a big first-period stop to bail out the penalty kill on an odd-man rush, and complete control of the net for 60 minutes. In five appearances since the Olympic break he has posted four wins, a 1.58 goals-against average, and a .931 save percentage. He has been everything the Flyers need him to be during the most important stretch of the season.

The Flyers are now 10-3-1 over their last 14 games and 35-24-12 on the season.

Eleven games left. Five points back of both third place in the Metropolitan Division and the second wild card spot in the Eastern Conference. The margin is still tight but the trajectory is pointing in the right direction and Thursday was the kind of performance that builds momentum heading into six games in nine days.

The home demons are gone. At least for one night. Let’s keep it going.

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