COLUMBUS, Ohio _ After setting a dubious franchise record by allowing opponents to score first in the season's first six games, Travis Konecny opened the scoring Thursday at sparsely filled Nationwide Arena.
It didn't matter.
Cam Atkinson scored two goals 3 minutes and 8 seconds apart early in the second period, erasing a 2-1 Flyers lead and sparking Columbus to a 6-3 victory.
Turnovers and sloppy defensive coverage plagued the Flyers. Again. They had allowed the second-most goals in the league entering the night _ and then they surrendered six more.
Oskar Lindblom scored on a wraparound with 18:53 left in regulation to get the Flyers within 4-3. Eighty seconds later, the Flyers got a power play but failed to get a shot during the two-minute advantage.
Josh Anderson secured the win with 4:48 remaining, scoring on a backhander after defenseman Christian Folin fell down and lost control of the puck. With 2:12 left, Sonny Milano scored from the side of the net after a Jake Voracek turnover, giving the Blue Jackets a 6-3 lead.
Earlier, Atkinson took a slick feed from Artemi Panarin and tapped in his third goal of the season, knotting the score at 2-2 with 18:26 left in the second. The fast break followed a giveaway by Claude Giroux (two assists) down the other end.
A little over three minutes later, Atkinson sped around defenseman Robert Hagg, made a deft move in front and beat goalie Cal Pickard to give the Blue Jackets a 3-2 advantage.
They made it 4-2 when Nick Foligno scored from the high slot with 11:26 to go in the second, giving Columbus three goals in a seven-minute span. Alexander Wennberg set a screen in front of Pickard, who made his second start with the Flyers.
The Flyers (3-4) dominated the first half of the opening period, getting nine of the first 12 shots, hitting iron twice, and taking the lead when Konecny tipped in Hagg's wrist shot from just above the left circle, near the boards, with 9:54 to go in the stanza.
"It felt pretty good," said Konecny after scoring his first goal of the season. "It's tough not to think about it, but all the guys were sticking with me and saying it's better to get opportunities than nothing at all."
Konecny, a 24-goal scorer last season, had hit iron three times in the first six games this year.
"I knew it was just a matter of time," he said. "Our line has been playing really good, so that's all that really matters."
With 2:07 left in the first, Columbus took advantage of a Michael Raffl turnover and tied it at 1-1 on a jaw-dropping effort by Anthony Duclair.
Duclair fell down, regained control of the puck on his knees, and put a slot shot through the legs of Pickard.
But the Flyers got a gift from a rare giver, goaltender Sergei Bobrovksy. Bobrovksy has dominated his former team throughout his outstanding career, but he allowed a left-circle shot by Sean Couturier _ it fluttered like a knuckleball _ go off his glove and into the net, putting the Flyers ahead, 2-1, with 50 seconds remaining in the first.
Columbus was again without injured Seth Jones (knee), who is arguably their best defenseman. But the Blue Jackets' second-period outburst negated a defensive-challenged opening period and they lifted their record to 4-2.
