Matt Read made it 5-3 with the first of his two goals

Giroux checked in with a paltry goal and assist contrasted to his six-point effort in Game 2.

The Flyers cannot claim purity in their overall demeanor, either. There was a dirty knee-on-knee hit by defenseman Nicklas Grossmann on Neal in the second period, which Neal immediately converted for a power-play goal at 10:31 to make it a 4-3.

Matt Read made it 5-3 with the first of his two goals. Jordan Staal responded with a tap-in after a hideous play of the puck by Bryzgalov, who on many other Flyer teams might have been booed to the bench by then.

But the killer goal came with 46 seconds left in the second, when Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds took a nifty pass from Braydon Coburn, deked Fleury to the forehand and backhanded a puck to the short side. That made it 6-4.