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NEW YORK (AP) Pressed into action after Flyers starter Michal Neuvirth left with a lower-body injury Custom New Jersey Devils Jerseys , rookie goaltender Alex Lyon was confident at Madison Square Garden having played there before for Yale.In his fourth NHL game, Lyon calmly went out over the next 40 minutes and made 25 saves for his first NHL win as the surging Flyers rolled past the slumping Rangers 7-4 on Sunday for their sixth win in seven games.”It was good, fun building, great atmosphere and I can’t give enough credit to the guys,” said the 25-year-old Lyon, who signed with Philadelphia as a free agent in April 2016 after three years at Yale. ”A first NHL win you can talk about for a long time.”Article continues below ...Travis Konecny scored the tiebreaking goal late in the second period to provide the margin of victory. His 15th goal of the season at 15:40 snapped a 4-4 tie.Claude Giroux and Jori Lehtera scored in the third to finish off the win, Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist allowed all seven goals. Giroux’s goal was his 20th of the season and the 200th of his NHL career.Flyers coach Dave Hakstol expressed confidence that possibly having to go with Lyon in games ahead would be a welcome challenge for his club, which is just four points behind Pittsburgh for the Metropolitan Division lead.”We’ve won games as a team. And we’ll continue to do that,” Hakstol said. ”Whoever is in net for us will do a good job.”The Flyers are 22-8-3 since Dec. 4, when they won at Calgary to end a 10-game winless streak. Philadelphia also extended their winning streak on the road to five games.”In the third period, Alex made some big saves for us www.officialislanders.com ,” Giroux said. ”He was solid.”The Rangers have lost four straight games. They are 3-11-0 since beating Buffalo at home on Jan. 18 and 6-15-0 since downing the Sabres in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1.”You give up seven, it’s not a good feeling,” Lundqvist said. ”I have to be better. Obviously, there are a lot of mistakes.”Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of the first game the Rangers played at the current Madison Square Garden; on Feb. 18, 1968, a 3-1 win over the Flyers.This game started in throwback Rangers-Flyers fashion with a fight at center ice between Rangers forward Pavel Buchnevich and Flyers defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere just 15 seconds into the game.There were two more bouts in the opening 20 minutes – a tussle between Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo and Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds and another between veteran fighters Dale Weise of the Flyers and the Rangers’ Cody McLeod.Each team also scored three times in the first.Kevin Hayes gave the Rangers the early lead when he redirected a point shot by defenseman Ryan Sproul past Neuvirth. Hayes’ 14th goal of the season came at 1:30.Philadelphia knotted the score at 4:53 when defenseman Andrew MacDonald scored his fourth of the season.Rick Nash, the subject of trade rumors over the past several weeks, put the Rangers ahead 2-1 with his 18th goal at 10:54 when he tapped a rebound past Neuvirth. The 33-year-old Nash, whose contract expires after this season, is one point shy of 800 for his career.Scott Laughton tied the score again at 12:11 with his 10th goal.The Flyers went ahead at 14:53 when Brandon Manning rifled a shot past Lundqvist after a fine setup by Giroux.The Rangers tied it yet again on a pretty goal by Mats Zuccarello after a slick feed from Peter Holland. The goal was Zuccarello’s 10th and only his second since Dec. 16.Zuccarello, the team’s leading scorer the past two seasons whose name has also surfaced in trade rumors New York Islanders T-Shirts Authentic , was not pleased with his team’s effort.”We were playing dumb defensively. We have to be better than that.” the 30-year-old Norwegian forward said. ”It’s really, really hard right now.”Philadelphia went ahead 4-3 at 2:01 of the second on a goal by rookie Nolan Patrick, his sixth.New York tied it at 4 when Holland scored his first of the season and first as a Ranger at 5:47.The matchup was the second of four between the teams this season. The Rangers won the previous meeting, 5-1 at the Garden on Jan. 16.The Rangers have been in a freefall since early January. Now they face games without playoff-race meaning as the season winds down. That would be a first for the 35-year-old Lundqvist, who has made the postseason every year but one during his career that began in 2005-06. That was in 2010 when the Rangers missed out on the last day of the season in a shootout loss at Philadelphia.”It’s terrible, absolutely terrible” he said of his mindset amid the ongoing slump. ”You live for this.”NOTES: The teams meet in Philadelphia on March 22 and in the season finale April 7. … The Rangers continued to be without forward Chris Kreider who has missed 23 games with a blood clot in his right arm and injured defensemen Kevin Shattenkirk, Marc Staal and Ryan McDonagh. … The Flyers scratched forward Taylor Leier and defenseman Mark Alt.UP NEXT:Rangers: visit Montreal on Thursday.Flyers: host Montreal on Tuesday.— DENVER (AP) — Mikko Rantanen got an assist for setting up the go-ahead goal. Nathan MacKinnon wanted to give him something more — full credit.“All Mikko there,” he said.MacKinnon scored the tiebreaking goal with 10:58 remaining on a nifty pass from Rantanen, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied past the Boston Bruins 6-3 on Wednesday night in a showdown between two of the top scoring lines in the league.Semyon Varlamov made 20 saves and the Avalanche scored four times in the third period after trailing by two in the second.“It’s always good to beat a good team like them,” MacKinnon said.This is no line, either: Colorado took momentary bragging rights in boasting the most explosive unit in the NHL.The Avs’ top line of Gabriel Landeskog (goal) New York Islanders Hoodies Authentic , MacKinnon (goal and an assist) and Rantanen (goal and two assists) produced six points to give them a league-leading 75 for the season.The squad outperformed the unit right behind them as the Bruins’ top trio of Brad Marchand, Patrice Bergeron and David Pastrnak combined for a goal and two assists. They ran their season total to 71 points.From one top line to the other, Bergeron was certainly impressed.“All three of them are great players, no question about it,” Bergeron said. “They see each other well. They’re tough to defend and it was a great challenge, a good matchup. It was a fun game.”Jake DeBrusk scored twice for the Bruins. Jaroslav Halak finished with 19 saves.Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara sustained a lower-body injury in the first period and didn’t return. He finished a check on Carl Soderberg along the boards and appeared to favor his left leg. After that, the Bruins were down to five defensemen.Boston coach Bruce Cassidy said the team would have more information about Chara on Thursday.“It seems like we’re losing a guy every game,” Halak said. “We need to keep playing hard and whoever comes in the lineup has to step up.”Avalanche forward Matt Calvert tied the score at 3 early in the third when he banked in a shot off the skate of a Bruins defenseman. That set the stage for MacKinnon, who used his speed to get ahead of the defense and knock in his 12th goal.“He gave me so much room. It was a great play by (Rantanen),” MacKinnon said.Both teams scored power-play goals in the second — DeBrusk to give Boston a 3-1 lead and Rantanen to trim the deficit.Colorado led 1-0 midway through the first after Landeskog scored off a backhand pass from Rantanen. The Bruins hit three posts in the period, but found the net on a tip-in from Pastrnak and 2:37 later DeBrusk cruised in all alone and juked Varlamov for a goal. The breakaway was set up by a turnover from MacKinnon as he sent an errant pass right to DeBrusk New York Islanders Hats Authentic , who was trailing the play because he dropped his stick.“I’ve never seen anything like that in any league,” DeBrusk said. “I didn’t know what happened. I just saw the puck pop out and was at the red line already so I had a good head start.”Boston and Colorado were looking forward to this matchup, given the offensive firepower of the top lines. Each coach vowed to pit them against each other as often as possible.They did, too.“It’s a good motivating factor for MacKinnon’s line and for Bergeron’s line to sort of want to put a stamp on being the best one,” Cassidy said.MacKinnon and Marchand know each other quite well. Both are from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and sometimes skate together in the offseason. But they work out separately.“Nate can’t keep up. He’s got to work out with someone else,” Marchand joked. “He’s an incredible player — very hard to play against.”NOTES: Boston G Tuukka Rask served as a backup. He missed the previous two games as he took a leave of absence for personal reasons. … Avalanche forward Tyson Jost and Alexander Kerfoot each scored a late power-play goal.UP NEXTBruins: The second stop on their four-game trip is Friday in Dallas.Avalanche: Host the Washington Capitals on Friday.