NEWARK, New Jersey — There’s a whole lot to like about the Philadelphia Flyers right now.

Saturday’s 5-3 win over the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center was their third in a row, moving them to 14-7-3 on the season and 8-2-2 in their last 12 games. The Flyers’ .646 points percentage is fourth in the Eastern Conference, as they gathered six of a possible eight points on a difficult four-in-six road trip. They are starting to move oh-so-slightly ahead of their rivals in a jam-packed Metropolitan Division, sitting only two points back of New Jersey for first place, with a game in hand.

But it’s the way the Flyers persevered in these last three games that offers hope that this may be sustainable for the long haul.

“I don’t want to say (the win over the Devils) was a measuring stick for us, because I think we deserve to be talked about with the teams that we’re playing right now,” Flyers right wing Travis Konecny said.

Konecny could be right. Although the Flyers dropped Monday’s road trip opener in Tampa Bay to the Lightning 3-0 in a generally disjointed performance across the board, they regrouped and beat the Florida Panthers, New York Islanders and Devils this week in different ways. That’s an attribute all strong teams possess.

Against Florida, the Flyers were forced to erase a 2-0 second-period deficit, coming back to win 4-2 in regulation thanks to Tyson Foerster’s last-minute, go-ahead goal. The Islanders game featured a blown 3-0 lead — not ideal, of course — but Philadelphia stuck with it and found a way in the shootout for the fifth time in five tries this season, thanks in large part to yet another conversion from Trevor Zegras.

Saturday’s game saw the Flyers and the Devils tied 1-1 after the first period, before the Flyers erupted for three goals in the second to take a commanding 4-1 lead. New Jersey pressed late in the second and more in the third, eventually cutting Philadelphia’s lead to 4-3. But the Flyers maintained their composure after some third-period miscues, including a bad turnover by Zegras that led to New Jersey’s third goal by Dawson Mercer, and an ill-advised slashing penalty by Cam York, to hand the Devils their first regulation loss at home (9-1-1).

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The Flyers’ goaltending continues to be steady. Dan Vladar again stood out in net Saturday, making 29 saves on 32 shots while adding to his highlight reel, too. Late in the first period, he robbed Nico Hischier on the doorstep with a quick right pad and denied Mercer on a two-on-one shorthanded rush late in the second period by sealing off the near post with his glove and ample frame.

And Sam Ersson had a decent week, too. He wasn’t the reason the Flyers lost the first game of the trip in Tampa Bay on Monday while allowing two goals on 17 shots. Ersson improved to 4-0 in the shootout this season with his effort Friday on Long Island, making some timely saves late in regulation and in overtime just to get it to that point.

Just as importantly, though, the Flyers’ offense may be coming around after it was inconsistent or dormant during the first six weeks.

Now, the team is getting contributions from up and down the lineup. On Saturday, the Flyers got two goals each from Matvei Michkov and Owen Tippett (including an awarded empty-netter after he was tripped in the neutral zone with the Devils’ goalie pulled for an extra attacker) and another from Zegras. In the last three games, 11 different players found the scoresheet.

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For the first 10 minutes of the second period against the Devils, the Flyers’ offense looked as dangerous as it has all season. They were moving the puck, getting to dirty areas of the ice and coming in waves, shift after shift.

Perhaps it’s becoming more ingrained in the players now what coach Rick Tocchet wants them to do in the offensive zone when they have the puck?

“Yeah, it’s coming,” Konecny said. “You can see there’s more opportunities. It’s just a matter of sometimes being patient and not getting frustrated because sometimes when you start a game, their D are buzzing, their breakouts are happening pretty cleanly. It’s just a matter of sticking to it, and you’re going to get your looks as the game goes on.”

Said Zegras: “I just feel like we know the spots that we’re in. We’re reading off each other real well. That connected game is so important when you’re playing these really good teams, and I thought we had it really going good tonight.”

Playing well with a lead and putting teams away when they have the opportunity is an area that the Flyers will have to improve. A few times this season, they have allowed teams to work their way back in games they seemed to have under control. There was the Islanders game Friday, but before that, the Flyers surrendered an early 3-0 lead in Montreal on Nov. 4 before winning that game in a shootout 5-4. On Oct. 28 at home against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia allowed the visitors to take control in the third period and force overtime (before eventually the Flyers won that one in a shootout, too, 3-2).

Philadelphia had a chance to put the Devils away Saturday before the final horn. But up 4-2 in the final frame, Zegras turned the puck over at his defensive blue line rather than make the safe play of chipping it up the wall, and York’s unnecessary slash of Timo Meier was an easy call for the officials to make after they had missed a blatant high-stick on Sean Couturier seconds earlier.

But the Flyers survived. The penalty kill came through in killing off a delay of game penalty to Garnet Hathaway as well as York’s minor at 13:16, and the Flyers gained some momentum from there. They aggressively hemmed the Devils in their end with less than two minutes to play, delaying goalie Jacob Markstrom from getting to the bench for an extra attacker, and then put it away on the rare referee-awarded goal to Tippett. Konecny said defenseman Nick Seeler offered some words of wisdom after the second period, reminding the team that points now are just as valuable as points in April.

“All these tight games, this is just learning,” Tocchet said. “There’s not a lot of panic on the bench. There’s a lot of resolve. We’ve got to clean stuff up, we understand that. We’ve got to execute under pressure a little bit more. But we’re a lot better than we were three weeks ago when it comes to that.”

That represents the biggest reason of all to believe that the Flyers can potentially maintain something close to their current pace. They are a young team learning a new coaching staff. Individually, many players should keep taking steps in the next few weeks and months. Collectively, the coaching staff will attempt to ensure the team does that together.

“The one thing I love with this group is they always want to learn,” Tocchet said. “Whether we win or lose, or it’s a bad period, it’s a good period — they’re asking questions, they’re trying to learn. That’s what we’re doing every day, and trying to build some blocks here.”