The Flyers take down fellow Capitals in wild-card contention.

Travis Konecny ​​scored on his 29th birthday and Owen Tippett added a goal and an assist to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals on Wednesday.

Samuel Ersson, making his second start since Jan. 29, finished the game with 21 saves for the Flyers. Trevor Zegras and Jamie Drysdale also scored and Noah Cates had two assists for Philadelphia, which is now 5-2-0 in its last seven games. Both teams are seven points behind the second and final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference.

Ryan Leonard scored the only goal for Washington, which has lost four of its last five contests. Logan Thompson had 18 shots for the Capitals.

Alex Ovechkin had an assist and five shots on goal for Washington. The Russian superstar has not scored in 11 of his last 12 games.

Leonard opened the scoring with a power play goal midway through the first half. After a scrum near the boards, Leonard came up with the puck and released his wrist at the top of the circle to beat Ersson.

That was the only goal of the first period, but the Flyers scored twice in the second period.

Konecny, playing in his second game after missing three contests with an upper-body injury, opened the game with his team-leading 24th goal of the season at 4:23. Travis Sanheim sent a pretty cross-ice feed to a wide-open Konecny, who beat Thompson to short side to tie the game at 1-1.

About eight minutes later, Zegras gave Philadelphia the lead with his 22nd point of the season. Taking the defense a step further, Zegras and Tippett skated up the ice on a close 2-0 breakaway. Tippett passed to Zegras, Zegras returned to Tippett, and a touch pass to Zegras set up the go-ahead tally.

Drysdale’s shot from the high slot gave the Flyers a 3-1 lead at 7:17 of the third period.

Tippett added an empty-netter with 1:03 remaining to seal the win.

–Field level media