Playoff-bound? Here are four reasons no team wants to face the Flyers in a first-round series.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba ― What a difference a year makes.

The last time the Flyers were in Winnipeg, Scott Laughton posed for a “Last Supper” picture just days before he was shipped to Toronto at the NHL trade deadline amid the team playing out the string.

A year and a few weeks later, the Flyers are now on the precipice of doing something that hasn’t been done in years. And they did that by not panicking.

After a 6-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings, instead of throwing everything out the window, the disappointed group stepped back, did a video session, flushed the game — except for how it played at five-on-five — and skated away with a 7-1 win Saturday over the Winnipeg Jets.

Now the Flyers can clinch a playoff spot on Monday if they beat the Carolina Hurricanes, and if the New York Islanders and Washington Capitals, whom they lead by three points, and the Columbus Blue Jackets, whom they lead by two, all lose Game 81 on Sunday.

If not, it could come down to Tuesday when the Flyers finish the season by hosting the Montreal Canadiens and the other teams wrap up theirs, with the Capitals and Blue Jackets facing each other.

But if the Flyers do clinch a playoff spot between Sunday and Tuesday, here are four reasons they are a team no one will want to face in the first round.

When a team is playing together, it is hard to beat. When a team is playing together with confidence, it’s probably best not to stand on the train tracks. The Flyers are a team playing with a high level of confidence now.

They’ve been scoring at a ferocious clip while holding opponent at bay. Dating back to March 18, which saw the Flyers beat Cutter Gauthier and the Anaheim Ducks to start a 10-4-0 stretch — the third-best winning percentage in the NHL at .714 — they are averaging 3.64 goals while allowing 2.43. Each stat is in the league’s top five. However, if you look across the whole season, the Flyers rank 22nd in goals per game (2.93) and ninth in goals against (2.94).

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Those two numbers are too close for comfort when every game can decide one’s fate. It’s a good thing they’ve turned it up now.

“Just keep doing what we’re doing,” Sean Couturier said. “Focus on the job. It’s not done yet. Don’t listen to the outside noise, to be honest. There’s still a lot of work to do, and we’ve got a big game Monday, so we’ve got to be ready for that one.”

After being one of the NHL’s most likely teams to fall behind 1-0, the Flyers have flipped the page and put other teams on their heels.

Since the Olympic break, the Flyers have scored first in half of their 24 games. It doesn’t sound like an amazing stat, but when you consider that they trailed in 66.1% of their first 56 games — winning 14 and getting at least a point in seven more of the 37 games — it’s a big jump.

In the 19 games when they scored first, the Flyers went 11-4-4 (.579 points percentage). Since they returned on Feb. 25, they are 11-1-0 when scoring first and lead the NHL in points percentage (.917). They’re also a perfect 9-0 when leading after two periods and 8-1 when leading after the first. Not too shabby.

“Yeah, it’s big. When you can get a quick one on a team that needs to win, I think that’s key, because a lot of times they try to force things, their season’s on the line,” Travis Konecny said of the Flyers getting a lead on the Jets when he fed Porter Martone for a goal two minutes into the game.

“Ours is too, but it was really important, I think to get that one and just kind of try to deflate them as soon as we could.”

The Flyers sucked the life out of Canada Life Centre with the goal by the rookie and again by scoring twice in 25 seconds to jump out to a 3-1 lead.

“I really loved our start,” coach Rick Tocchet said. “Obviously, getting some goals, really good efforts from some individuals. They made a push, Winnipeg, and [Dan Vladař] was there for it, so it was a really good team effort.”

What else can one say about Vladař, who is surely gaining some votes for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s top goalie day by day?

When the Jets tied the score early on, there was a little bit of an internal oh no, here we go again, but the Czech netminder shut the door the rest of the way, stopping 27 of 28 shots.

And as one of the most active goalies this reporter has seen, he poke-checked a few away, too. Notably in the first, he poke-checked the puck away from three-time Stanley Cup champion Jonathan Toews as he tried a similar move to the one Alex DeBrincat tried on Thursday for the Red Wings before he eventually scored.

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In the second period, Winnipeg had its chances, and once again the Flyers bent but did not break. Philly had two shots in the first 61 seconds of the middle frame and then didn’t get another shot on goal until there were 12 minutes, 18 seconds left. The next shot, with 8:19 to go, found the back of the net with Manitoban Travis Sanheim firing off a slap shot from the point.

The Flyers outscored the Jets 2-0, with Noah Cates adding a shorthanded goal, and were outshot by 10-7.

“The good thing is, we’re trying to give them the outside shots, but I still think there’s some times where we’ve still got to push. We just can’t sink,” Tocchet said. “And I think there was about ... seven minutes [left], we were sinking a little bit. We were giving them the puck a lot, but I did like the bend not break.

“I just think we got to be careful. And that’s youth and young guys, and nobody wants to make a mistake, so yeah, we’ll learn from it.”

The youth and vets were equally on display as the Flyers chased Olympic gold medalist Connor Hellebuyck with five goals on 20 shots.

Martone, 19, Matvei Michkov, 21, Nick Seeler, 32, and Couturier, 33, were among the six goal scorers for the Flyers. Couturier looked like his old self as he battled in the corners, held the opposition off, killed penalties, and scored twice for the first time since October, with his second goal being a ridiculous fake pump and lifting of the puck over goalie Eric Comrie.

But what was even better was that the Flyers got goals from three of their four lines, with the line of Michkov, Cates, and Denver Barkey (who was elevated with Garnet Hathaway slotting back in on the fourth line) leading the way. According to Natural Stat Trick, they had seven shot attempts, with four shots on goal and Michkov scoring, to three against at five-on-five.

The other three lines weathered the storm with Martone, Christian Dvorak, and Konecny connecting and Couturier, Hathaway, and Luke Glendening scoring twice.

“It’s fun. To score goals definitely helps the confidence, but what I liked about our line is we played a simple game, put pucks deep, had a good forecheck, and created turnovers, created chances off of that,” Couturier said. “That’s the way it’s going to be from now on, playoff games are going to get tighter and tighter, and you’ve got to find a way to get those type of goals.”

Having depth and the ability to roll all four lines is critical at this time of the season when bodies are banged up and the intensity rises.

“It’s just that belief that [with] that trust in this room, everyone’s going, everyone’s playing their best hockey,” Cates said. “Everyone’s playing for the crest is kind of what it feels like, and it’s been a ton of fun.”