Beecher prevented the Bruins from being Blutarsky’d when he landed the home team’s first shot on net, a steamer that Felix Sandstrom kicked out with his left pad.

The Bruins tied the score when Morgan Geekie took a feed from DeBrusk and snuck a good old-fashioned slapper from the top of the circle over Sandstrom’s blocker and under the crossbar at 15:51.

DeBrusk and Parker Wotherspoon were credited with assists on Geekie’s sweet 16th of the season, though the biggest helper belonged to Swayman, who stopped two Travis Konecny shots on a breakaway that led to Boston’s breakout.

The Flyers made a bid to break the deadlock when Brandon Carlo went to the box for tripping Scott Laughton with just 2:05 left in the period, but the penalty-killers did their jobs leaving a 1-all game after 20 minutes.

The Bruins came out with a little more offensive life in the second with Trent Frederic setting up Matt Grzelcyk and Geekie on back-to-back shifts.

Marchand had a chance off a pass from Coyle, and though he had Sandstrom down and out, his roofer went too high.

The rough stuff broke out after a couple of dandy Swayman saves and a Charlie McAvoy illegal hit to Konecny’s head. Not surprisingly, it was old enemy Hathaway who was in the middle of the scrum.

The former Bruin tried to get rough with van Riemsdyk, the former Flyer, while Coyle came to Marchand’s defense after a Travis Sanheim cross-check.

McAvoy, Coyle, and Sanheim slid off to the box and though the Bruins killed the penalty, the Flyers regained the lead just after it expired.

Joel Farabee notched his 20th goal of the season by chopping down Cam York’s blue-line shot past Swayman.

The Bruins pulled even again when Coyle buried a Marchand feed on the doorstep with Poehling off for hooking Pastrnak.

It was the career-high 22d goal of the season for Coyle before he scored early to start the Bruins outburst.