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PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 So much for the Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> being too inexperienced for all this. Too young for that matter.<\/p>\n

Whatever concerns Philadelphia might have had about its young core evaporated over 60 minutes of confident, assured hockey in a 3-2 victory over Pittsburgh<\/a> in Game 1 of their first-round series on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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