PHILADELPHIA — In their 43-year history, the Vancouver Canucks have had 13 road trips of seven or more games. They haven’t posted a winning record in any of them.

Maybe No. 14 is going to be the charm.

It’s early, but the Canucks opened a seven-games-in-11-nights sojourn Tuesday with a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over the Flyers at the Wells Fargo Center.

Canuck captain Henrik Sedin, who keyed the win with a pair of third-period assists, said beginning the road trip on a positive note is huge.

“Especially the first game,” Henrik said. “It’s a seven-game road trip and if you lose the first one all of a sudden you get below .500 and there’s some insecurity creeping in. Now we are 4-3, we won the first game and we can move on to Buffalo. It’s a huge win for us.”

The win was Vancouver’s second this season when trailing after two periods. They only managed that once in last season’s lockout-shortened 48-game campaign.

“You want to get those under your belt early,” said centre Ryan Kesler. “You want to establish yourself as a resilient group and we did that again tonight.”

LUCKY BOUNCE: Kesler was the recipient of a fortuitous bounce on his first of his two goals midway through the first period. Flyer goalie Steve Mason went behind his next to play the puck after Jannik Hansen had dumped the puck into the Philadelphia zone. But the puck took a strange bounce off the boards and went directly in front of the empty net to Kesler.

“I didn’t see it until it was in the blue paint,” Kesler said. “It is just one of those bounces.”

SEEING DOUBLE: Mr. October strikes again.

The Canucks got solid goaltending from Roberto Luongo, who stopped 20 of 22 shots.

Luongo’s struggles in October have been well-documented.

“They should count for double,” he said with a smile after Tuesday’s win.

Luongo’s October numbers as a Canuck are now 31-30-4. He is 205-94-40 the rest of the year.

KILL-JOYS: The Canuck penalty-kill wasn’t especially busy Tuesday, but it made a huge kill midway through the third period with the game tied 2-2.

Defenceman Chris Tanev made a big block during that kill which drew praise from coach John Tortorella.

“Tanev comes out and blocks that shot while we are killing that penalty,” Tortorella said. “Tans is guy who has picked things up very quickly as far as what we are trying to do. He is a young guy playing the toughest position. That is a huge block. He is playing very well.”

KINDER, GENTLER: New Flyers’ coach Craig Berube has been reminding his players that they are not the Broad Street Bullies.

Berube was a tough-as-nails player who accumulated 3,149 penalty minutes in 1,054 NHL games and the irony that he is now preaching discipline to his players is not lost on him.

Asked before Tuesday’s game how he can get his players to stop taking bad penalties, Berube smiled and said: “Don’t watch me play.”

The Flyers were burned for three power-play goals in a 5-2 loss to Detroit on Saturday and Berube said the culture simply has to change in Philadelphia.

“The Flyers have a reputation, we all know that, and it’s got to change,” Berube said. “It’s 2013 and you can’t keep going to the penalty box and doing stupid things out there.

“A lot of it is the hooking and holding for me. It’s unacceptable. Your feet have got to move. You can’t be hooking and holding and any stick that goes into the midsection or around there they are going to give you a penalty.”

Berube played part of his junior career with the New Westminster Bruins. Some of his teammates in the 1984-85 season were Cliff Ronning, Bill Ranford, Brian Noonan and Jay Triano’s younger brother, Jeff.

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