Former Rangers Blair Betts and Nikolay Zherdev scored to help the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 victory over New York on Thursday night in the teams' first meeting since an emotional final day of the 2009-10 regular season.
Mike Richards and Chris Pronger added power-play goals for Philadelphia which extended its season-best winning streak to five games.
Despite the loss, the Rangers are 14-4-2 in their last 20 games in Philadelphia.
The last time these teams met was an eventful 3-2 shootout win by the Flyers in Philadelphia that them into the playoffs as the seventh seed. They went on to represent the Eastern Conference in the Stanley Cup finals against the Chicago Blackhawks.
In the second period, Brandon Dubinsky fired a rebound from Michael Del Zotto's shot past goalie Sergei Bobrovsky. Dubinsky leads the Rangers with eight goals in 12 games.
Philadelphia scored the next three goals against Henrik Lundqvist, who started Thursday despite being hit on the right side of his neck in practice Wednesday.
Richards tied the game at 5:12 with a one-timer from one knee. More than four minutes later, Betts gave the Flyers the lead when he fetched his own rebound and backhanded a shot past Lundqvist.
Zherdev added the last goal when the pass he sent toward the net took a funny hop and bounced over Lundqvist's shoulder.
