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They have played more than 400 playoff games, winning 221. As of the end of the 2018–19 season, Philadelphia has won more than 2,000 regular season games, the 7th-highest victory total among NHL teams and the most among non-Original Six teams. [2] The Flyers also possess an all-time .575 points percentage, the third highest among NHL teams. [2]
The Penguins and the Flyers faced off in the 2008 Eastern Conference finals, won by the Penguins in five games for the Penguins' first-ever playoff series win against the Flyers. A year later, in the 2009 Eastern Conference quarterfinals , the Penguins beat the Flyers again, winning the series 4–2 on their way to winning the Stanley Cup .
The Flyers' Cinderella run to the Stanley Cup Finals began on April 11, the final day of the regular season, [32] when they met the Rangers in a winner-take-all match-up for the final playoff spot. [33] Philadelphia defeated New York 2–1 in a historic shootout, the first do or die shootout for a playoff spot in NHL history. [33]
The Flyers would go on to win over the Penguins again in the 2000 conference quarterfinals, most remembered for Keith Primeau scoring the game-winning goal in the fifth overtime period of game four, becoming the third longest playoff game in league history with a total game time of 152 minutes.
Both teams began to decline after the 1987 playoff matchup, with the Islanders missing the playoffs for the first time in 14 years in 1989 and the Flyers missing the playoffs for the first time in 17 years in 1990. The rivalry effectively became dormant for the next 30 years, although both teams played each other competitively in the 1990s.
Claude Giroux, pictured here during an April 13, 2012 playoff game, set a team record during the game for most points in a single playoff game. The Philadelphia Flyers are a professional ice hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
This time, the Flyers took a 3–1 lead, only to have the Capitals come back and force a game 7. Both teams sent the game into overtime, and Capitals forward Dale Hunter won it for the Capitals, making it one of the greatest playoff memories in team history. The Flyers got their revenge the following season in 1989, as the Flyers won the series ...
The Flyers finished with a combined regular season & playoff record of 9–2 against the Devils for 2009–10. [ 4 ] In the 2006–07 season, Devils goalie Martin Brodeur broke Philadelphia legend (and fellow Montreal teammate) Bernie Parent 's single-season wins record of 47 by earning his 48th win against the Flyers.