BOSTON _ Against all odds, the Flyers _ who should have been tired from playing on back-to-back nights _ controlled play and took a 2-0 lead into the third period Sunday night in Boston.
The Atlantic Division-leading Bruins wore down the visitors in the third period, but the Flyers won it in a shootout, 3-2, at TD Garden.
Joel Farabee, who attended nearby Boston University, was the only player to score in the shootout, and Carter Hart stopped all three Bruins shots as the Flyers completed a sweep of their back-to-back weekend games.
Phil Myers is coming of age.
Sent to the minors earlier this season, primarily because he had options and Samuel Morin had to go through waivers, Myers has flourished since being recalled from the AHL's Phantoms on Oct. 31.
The 6-foot-5 Myers became the first Flyers defenseman to score goals in three straight games since Hall of Famer Mark Howe in 1987, helping the Flyers build a 2-0 lead.
Boston got to within 2-1 as Danton Heinen jumped on a blocked shot in front of the net and scored on a spinaround shot with 14:01 left in regulation. Brad Marchand made it 2-2 with 7:38 left, beating Hart from the left circle.
Hart stopped David Pastrnak on a penalty shot with 4:56 remaining in regulation.
Boston, which had a 17-7 shots domination in the third period, got a power play with 3:20 to go in the third, but Hart stood tall and made his best save by denying Patrice Bergeron from in close.
The Flyers, playing their fourth game in six nights and arriving at Boston around 2 a.m. Sunday after playing a in Toronto on Saturday, should have been a tired team.
Instead, they dominated the opening period. It was arguably their best period of the season, especially considering they were playing on consecutive nights against one of the NHL's top teams.
They built a 2-0 lead on goals by Travis Konecny and Myers and outshot the rested Bruins, 14-5.
With 6:10 left in the first, Konecny banged in a rebound after Jaroslav Halak stopped a two-on-one. It was his eighth goal and it gave him points in 14 of the Flyers' 17 games.
Myers took a pass from Konecny and made it 2-0, ripping a right-circle wrist shot past Jaroslav Halak with 2:04 to go in the first, giving him goals in three straight games.
"I'm confident out there and trying to keep it simple," said Myers, 22, who was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2015. "I just threw the puck on net. The guy was trying to block it so I just waited until he slid by and the far side was open so I just tried to get it there."
The Flyers were coming off a 3-2 shootout win in Toronto on Saturday. Boston was coming off consecutive losses to Montreal and Detroit.
