For the Flyers, Operation Playoff Push is gaining momentum.
Getting third-period goals from Wayne Simmonds and Mark Streit, they recorded their fourth straight win Wednesday, jolting the Boston Bruins, 3-2, at the reverberating Wells Fargo Center.
Simmonds and Streit scored on rebounds 1 minute, 22 seconds apart, lifting the Flyers to their sixth consecutive victory on home ice. The win moved them within two points of Boston in the crowded race for an Eastern Conference playoff spot.
Streit scored on a rebound with 8:28 left, his first goal since Oct. 30. He missed about six weeks after undergoing pubic-plate surgery and was playing his sixth game since his return.
The Flyers’ top line, which has struggled recently, got goals from Jake Voracek and Wayne Simmonds. Claude Giroux (three assists), the line’s center, and Voracek each had three points.
Simmonds, speeding down the right wing as a two-one-one was developing with Voracek, scored on his own rebound with 9:50 remaining in regulation, knotting the score at 2-2 and jolting the crowd to life.
Voracek and Giroux had assists on Simmonds’ goal, which was scored after the Flyers killed a Boston power play.
Steve Mason made 30 saves for the Flyers, who were outshot, 32-21.
“Two greasy goals to win,” Mason said. “ ... This was a four-point game for us.”
Earlier, Boston took advantage of its first power play of the night, needing just 25 seconds to take a 2-1 lead with 3:34 left in the second period. Loui Eriksson scored on a rebound, showing why the Bruins have the NHL’s best power play, clicking at over 28 percent.
At that point, the Flyers were 0-for-3 on their power play, managing a total of just two shots in six minutes with an extra skater.
Kevan Miller tied the game at 1-1 by scoring on a drive from above the right circle with 11:22 left in the second. It was his first goal in 16 games, and it came after a turnover by Mason and a bad line change by the Flyers, who had just four skaters on the ice. Voracek had given the Flyers a 1-0 lead, marking the fourth straight game they had scored the first goal.
The left winger pounced on a rebound of a right-circle shot by Giroux, and, with four Bruins around him, used his long reach to put the puck into the net with 2:32 remaining in the first.
The Flyers didn’t get their first shot until Radko Gudas’ point drive with 6:30 to go in the first, but they had a handful of good scoring chances in an evenly played opening period.
The first period included a flight between Brayden Schenn and Miller, who went after the winger after he leveled Torey Krug with a clean check.
Mason was coming off a 4-0 win over the Islanders on Saturday, the Flyers’ last game before Wednesday. The long layoff, Mason said before the game, was “good to get some practice time in.”
“We haven’t had a whole lot of time in the last little while to work on some things and kind of hone the skills that you need to stay sharp with over the course of the year. So it was nice to get a little extra work in with” goalie coach Kim Dillabaugh.
Wednesday was the Flyers’ first meeting against the Bruins since they overcame a 4-2 third-period deficit and registered a 5-4 overtime win on Oct. 21. In that game, Boston’s Zac Rinaldo, a former Flyer, concussed Sean Couturier with a head hit.
Rinaldo was booed loudly every time he touched the puck Wednesday. He had a great scoring chance 27 seconds into the second period, but Mason stopped him as he cruised toward the net on a two-on-one.
Two minutes later, with the Flyers on a power play, Boston had a three-on-one short-handed break. Again Mason came up big, turning aside Landon Ferraro from the right circle and not allowing a rebound.
The saves proved critical as the Flyers rallied and beat Boston for just the second time in their last eight meetings. The Flyers overcame a 4-2 third-period deficit in their October win in Boston.
Wednesday comeback followed a similar, dramatic script.

RESULTS
Columbus     3 Toronto 1   
Philadelphia 3 Boston  2   
Calgary      6 Florida 0   
Anaheim      4 Ottawa  1