TORONTO _ In a tribute to Eric Lindros and his upcoming Hockey Hall of Fame induction, the Flyers wore No. 88 during pregame warm-ups Friday night at the Air Canada Centre.
Then, after Lindros met the players in the locker room and read them the starting lineup, they imitated the high-scoring player who dominated the 1990s, producing two goals in the first 4 minutes, 25 seconds.
It didn't matter.
The Flyers defense folded in the final period as Toronto scored four unanswered goals and rallied for a 6-3 victory.
It was the third straight loss for the Flyers (6-7-2), who took a 3-2 lead into the third period and collapsed against a young Toronto team (6-5-3) that had been routed by visiting Los Angeles, 7-0, in its previous game.
After a bad sequence by the Flyers defense, Zach Hyman scored on a rebound as he was falling to the ice, putting Toronto ahead, 4-3, with 11 minutes, 26 seconds left in regulation.
A little more than two minutes later, Leo Komarov scored on a short-handed breakaway to make it 5-3, putting a backhander off Steve Mason and into the net. He became the fourth Toronto player to score his first goal of the season.
Rookie Mitch Marner added a power-play goal with 3:43 to go.
Mason allowed six goals on 23 shots. The Leafs had four third-period goals on nine shots.
Toronto had tied the score at 3-3 when defenseman Martin Marincin blasted a point drive past a screened Mason with 15:57 left in the third period. Marincin, who notched his first goal in 22 games, uncorked his shot after a slick drop pass from Morgan Rielly (four points).
The Flyers wasted a pair of goals from Wayne Simmonds, one on a power play, the other short-handed.
Just 2:53 into the second period, Simmonds scored on a breakaway, whipping a shot between the legs of goalie Frederik Andersen to put the Flyers ahead, 3-2.
"Coots made a great play," Simmonds said, referring to teammate Sean Couturier. "He banked it off the boards, and I was just coming home, and I wanted to put it in the back of the net and went five-hole."
Earlier, Simmonds (power-play deflection) and Travis Konecny scored 26 seconds apart to give the Flyers an early 2-1 lead.
Konecny took a pass from Radko Gudas, used a burst of speed and got around defenseman Connor Carrick and beat Andersen on a backhander with 15:35 remaining in the opening period.
"We knew their defensemen were going to push up on us and pressure us, so (Gudas) just flipped the puck in behind their defenseman, and I found a way to get through the battle," said Konecny, who grew up about three hours away from Toronto and had numerous friends and relatives at the game. "Honestly, I don't even know what kind of move that was. I just pulled the puck to my backhand and it happened to go in."
But Toronto tallied the equalizer while on a five-on-three as Rielly scored from the high slot with 52 seconds to go in the first.
Coach Dave Hakstol made some lineup changes. Left winger Michael Raffl and defenseman Brandon Manning were healthy scratches; they were replaced by Nick Cousins, who moved to center, and Nick Schultz, respectively.
Schultz was paired with Shayne Gostisbehere, who has struggled on the defensive end. Michael Del Zotto, who had been Gostisbehere's partner, was with Gudas.
The Flyers host Minnesota on Saturday night, their fifth set of back-to-back games in the season's first four weeks.
