Unbelievably, the Boston Bruins have officially fired their head coach after their loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. However…

The Philadelphia Flyers were coming off Thursday 3-2 overtime loss in Carolina, a game  that had a slew of positives, including a pristine third period. Considering the stakes and the opponent, it was one of the Flyers’ best periods of the season, and it salvaged a point against a powerhouse team.

The momentum carried into Saturday’s matinee against the talented Boston Bruins at the reverberating Wells Fargo Center.

The Flyers played another strong game against an NHL heavyweight and, in dramatic fashion, outlasted the Bruins, 3-2.

The Flyers, who allowed six goals in each of their two earlier games against Boston, were ultra-sharp defensively. They gave the dangerous Bruins few scoring chances and didn’t take foolish penalties. The B’s finished with just 20 shots– nine fewer than Philly.

Believe, Philadelphia.

Travis Konecny scored a pair of goals for the Flyers. The right winger’s 30th goal of the season, scored from the left circle, gave the Flyers a 2-1 lead as the crowd erupted with 4:44 left in regulation.

But about a minute later, Danton Heinen got behind Scott Laughton and scored from the left circle, knotting the score at 2-2 with 3:48 to go.

No matter. Rookie Tyson Foerster (18th goal) made it 3-2 by firing a tracer upstairs that beat Linus Ullmark from the left circle with 1:29 to go. Ullmark had stopped Owen Tippett on a breakaway 47 seconds earlier.

“I think we played very well against Carolina, and this was a carryover for sure,” said Foerster, who called the goal the biggest of his young career.

It gave the Flyers a thrilling 3-2 win and greatly improved their Eastern Conference playoff chances.

Believe, Philadelphia.

“We kept the game where we wanted it and didn’t give them much at all,” goalie Sam Ersson said after the Flyers avenged last Saturday’s 6-5 loss in Boston.

“My take out of the game is that it’s two games in a row now that our third period has been our strongest period,” coach John Tortorella said.