The Bruins have gotten a taste of what playoff hockey will be like in their past two games against a couple of Metropolitan Division teams.

And they have come up lacking in both urgency and timely goaltending.

Linus Ullmark made a few saves with a high degree of difficulty but was beaten on two long distance shots in the thrid period and the Bruins dropped their second straight, a 3-2 decision to decision to Flyers in Philadelphia.

After failing to exploit a Ranger team that had key defensemen missing in their loss on Thursday, the B’s also couldn’t beat a similarly shorthanded Flyers team.

The first period didn’t offer much by way of scoring chances for either team or entertainment except for an explosion of righteous indignation from captain Brad Marchand.

Cutting through the neutral zone, Flyer defenseman Erik Johnson stuck his left leg out and clipped Marchand in the left leg on a dangerous hit. After no call was forthcoming, Marchand erupted, screaming at the officials and banging his stick on the boards until he was tagged with a two-minute minor. The B’s killed it off and the teams went into the first break deadlocked at 0-0.

Both teams had surges of offensive zone time in the second period. The B’s at one point had the Flyers hemmed in for over 2:00 in their own zone. Their best chance of the period came when James van Riemsdyk had Samuel Ersson down but could not lift the puck over him from the top of the crease, which has become the story of his season in which his shot percentage is a career low (8.1%).

And when Andrew Peeke was called for a late period high-sticking penalty, the Flyers finally broke the ice at 18:15 on an ugly goal. Both Jake DeBrusk and Matt Grzelcyk got caught out high in the defensive zone, which left too much open ice down low. Scott Laughton fed Tyson Foerster in the slot and he fanned on the shot. Unfortunately for the Bruins, the mishit turned into a perfect pass to Travis Konecny at the side of the net.

Ullmark made a great pad save on Konecny but when the puck went airborne, Ullmark accidentally knocked it into the net with his blocker.

The Flyers nearly took a two-goal lead when Hampus Lindholm’s indecision in the offensive zone turned into a breakaway when a sprawled-out Johnson deflected Lindholm’s pass attempt that led to a breakaway for Laughton, who was stoned by Ullmark.

That kept the B’s in striking distance going into the third but the offense needed to crank it up. Despite the Flyers missing three defensemen on the back end (Nick Seeler, Rasmus Ristolainen and Jamie Drysdale), the B’s had managed just 12 shots on net. Flyer killer David Pastrnak, who missed the net on a good one-timer chance in the first period, had not hit the net.

In the third period, coach Jim Montgomery changed his lines, putting Justin Brazeau up with Charlie Coyle and Marchand and, at 10:19, it paid off.

After a helter-skelter moment in the B’s zone, Mason Lohrei broke the puck out and fed Coyle on the right wing. Once in the zone, Coyle made nice pass to the Brazeau, rumbling toward the net. The big man with the soft hands cut across the crease and tucked a backhander past Ersson to even the game for his fourth goal in three games.

Then things really picked up.

With 4:44 left in regulation, the Flyers regained the lead when, on a harmless looking rush, Konecny beat Ullmark with a long range shot from the left wing.

But just 56 seconds later, the B’s tied it up again. With the B’s changing, Morgan Geekie entered the Flyer zone 1-on-4 but was able to protect the puck until he got help. He found it in the form of Danton Heinen on the left wing. Geekie got it to him and Heinen buried it to make it 2-2.

After Ullmark stopped Owen Tippett, he let in another goal from the left wing with 1:29 left in regulation. Perhaps aided by Brandon Carlo’s stick, Foerster beat Ullmark’s glove to the far corner.

The B’s pulled Ullmark for the ensuing faceoff for the extra skater, but they could not get the equalizer.