As part of their 50th anniversary year, the Flyers held Tough Guy Night and honored some of their past players Thursday at the Wells Fargo Center.
Then they went out and, in boxing parlance, withstood a flurry of punches . . . uh, shots, and decisioned the Winnipeg Jets.
Flyers 5, Winnipeg 2.
The Jets had the better scoring chances, but goalie Steve Mason outplayed his counterpart as the Flyers defeated a Winnipeg team that was 4-0-1 in its last five games.
Sean Couturier, Michael Raffl, Mark Streit, Wayne Simmonds, and Brandon Manning (empty-netter) scored for the Flyers, who were unable to hold third-period leads in two of their previous three games.