[15] The day after the Flyers won the Cup, more than two million people—one of them, future Ranger goaltender Mike Richter[16] —lined Broad Street for a ticker-tape parade.

[21] At the end of the 1977–78 season, Shero submitted a letter of resignation stating the Flyers needed a change whether they realized it or not, despite having one more year remaining on his contract.

Flyers management heard rumors about Shero wanting to leave Philadelphia and re-join the Rangers organization, and refused to accept his letter of resignation.

They took a commanding 3–0 series lead, New York avoided the sweep, but the Flyers won at home in game five to clinch it.

The Flyers won the first game, but the remaining three were big wins for the Rangers as they advanced to the next round against their crosstown rivals, the New York Islanders.

On the first day of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, the Flyers believed they had reached a deal with the Nordiques to acquire Lindros.

[14] The first series was bitter for the Rangers—the Flyers' four-game sweep eliminated the defending Cup champions in the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Kevin Haller scored, sending normally laid-back Flyers color analyst Gary Dornhoefer into a frenzy.

In August 2001, the Flyers traded Eric Lindros' rights to the Rangers in exchange for Pavel Brendl, Jan Hlavac, Kim Johnsson and a third-round pick in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft.

Lindros sat out the 2000–01 season due to concussion symptoms and a highly publicized feud with Flyers general manager Bobby Clarke.

[26] On December 4, 2009, the Flyers added further heat to the rivalry in firing head coach John Stevens and replacing him with Peter Laviolette.

[32][36] During the run, Flyers left winger James van Riemsdyk told Rich Chere of The Star-Ledger that his earliest memory of the Stanley Cup playoffs came when the Rangers won the 1994 Stanley Cup and watching Mike Richter stop Pavel Bure's penalty shot.

[18][37] In the 2010–11 season, the Flyers won four of the six meetings against the Rangers and the rivalry was played out three times on NBC, including the meeting on February 20, which was part of the first ever Hockey Day in America (the game was aired in the majority of homes, however, people in the Buffalo and Washington markets saw the game between the Washington Capitals and Buffalo Sabres),[38] and again on March 6.

[41][42] On June 21, 2011, The New York Times reported the Rangers and the Flyers would be playing each other in the 2012 NHL Winter Classic on January 2, 2012, at Citizens Bank Park, the home stadium of the Philadelphia Phillies.

They steadily led the Atlantic Division and won first place in the Eastern Conference in the final meeting between the two teams during the season.

The Rangers won all three of these in an 11-day span; backup goaltender Cam Talbot shut out the Flyers in the first two meetings and Henrik Lundqvist stood in net for the third.

Wayne Simmons received a game misconduct for punching Rangers' captain Ryan McDonagh in the jaw after the defenseman hit him with a high stick.

[47] The Rangers' fanbase comes from the New York metropolitan area, which includes southern Connecticut, and northern and central New Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley.

[48] Conversely, the Flyers' fanbase generally draws from the Delaware Valley (the Philadelphia metropolitan area), which includes Southeastern Pennsylvania, central New Jersey south of Princeton, southern New Jersey, northern Delaware and extreme northeast parts of Maryland.