PHILADELPHIA _ The Flyers have five victories, and Wayne Simmonds has the game-winner in four of them.
The latest came with 2:15 left in their 2-1 victory over Edmonton at the electric Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon.
Simmonds took a feed from Val Filppula and whipped a shot past Cam Talbot for his sixth goal of the young season.
The Flyers improved to 5-3, and Edmonton slipped to 2-5.
A hard-working play by former Flyers farmhand Patrick Maroon tied the game at 1 with 4:23 left in the second period.
Maroon, a 6-foot-3, 225-pound left winger, took the puck away from Nolan Patrick near the right boards, made a clever move to get around Robert Hagg by the goal line, and then put a bad-angle shot under goalie Brian Elliott's right pad.
In 2010, Maroon was leading scorer for the Flyers' top farm team, the Phantoms, but was sent home because of an alleged off-ice incident. The next month, he was traded to Anaheim.
Now he's the Oilers' top-line left winger and is coming off a 27-goal season.
Claude Giroux's power-play goal with 16:24 left in the first period gave the Flyers a quick lead.
Simmonds made a deft deflection of Shayne Gostisbehere's point drive, sending the puck to Giroux, who scored on a wide-open net from the left side.
It gave Gostisbehere assists on seven of the Flyers' eight power-play goals this season.
Entering the game, the Flyers' power play was 12th in the NHL, clicking at 22.6 percent. Edmonton's penalty kill was ranked just 30th.
"We just have a lot of different looks this year," Gostisbehere said. "We have so many plays out there and it's harder for other teams to prepare for us. As a team, as a power-play unit ... we're getting pucks to the net and our guys are doing what they're supposed to do."
The power play is under the direction of new assistant Kris Knoblauch, who replaced the fired Joe Mullen.
The Flyers are 5-0 when they score the game's first goal, and 0-4 when they don't.
Connor McDavid's line was matched primarily against units centered by Scott Laughton and Sean Couturier.
"You think he's fast, he's even faster," Gostisbehere said of McDavid, who had a hat trick in Edmonton's opener against Calgary but is goal-less in his last six games.
McDavid was held without a point.
