Philadelphia(1-1-1) got up 1-0 at the 8:54 mark of the first period. Sean Couturier backhanded a pass from the left wing. Tyson Forester snapped a shot from the inner right circle for his first tally this season.
In the second period, the Flyers increased it to 2-0 with 4:13 remaining. Travis Sanheim tipped away a pass in the middle of his own zone and Travis Konecny sent a long diagonal pass down the ice. Couturier went on a breakaway and released a wrist shot from the slot area for his first goal of the campaign.
Florida(3-1-0) closed it to 2-1 with 37.2 seconds to go in the period on a shorthanded goal. Anton Lundell pushed a shot from the top of the crease wide left of the net. Sam Reinhart skated from the end wall and backhanded a wraparound shot from the right goal line past Dan Vladar for his first goal of the season.
The Panthers tied it up 2-2 at 10:15 of the third period on a power-play goal. Reinhart fed the puck from behind the Flyers net and Sam Bennett placed in a wrist shot from the low left circle for his first goal in 2025-26. Brad Marchand was credited with the secondary assist on the sequence.
Philadelphia regained the lead 3-2 with 4:10 left in the third. Trevor Zegras backhanded a pass from behind the Florida cage and Couturier blasted a one-time slap shot from the right-circle dot for his second goal of the contest.
The Cats pulled their goalie twice in the final three minutes of play for an extra attacker. It did not help as Bobby Brink scored into an empty-net with 2:17 to go and Christian Dvorak added an empty-net goal, his first tally in a Flyers uniform, with 1:27 left for a 5-2 lead.
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