The Devils–Flyers rivalry is a rivalry between two teams in the NHL's Metropolitan Division. This rivalry has become quite intense in New Jersey itself, sometimes referred to as the "Battle of the Jersey Turnpike", with the northern part of the state being the Devils fanbase, while the southern part of the state is overwhelmingly Flyers fans due to South Jersey's close proximity to Philadelphia. The Flyers practice in Voorhees Township, New Jersey, and since their Stanley Cup days of and , many members of the Cup teams (as well as other Flyers alumni) have lived in South Jersey. From the time the conferences were realigned and renamed prior to the season until the next realignment at the end of the season, the two teams won a combined total of 15 division championships of the 19 titles from the original Atlantic Division, 9–6 in the Devils' favor. Early history Prior to relocating to New Jersey, the only notable confrontation between these two franchises occurred in the 1978 Stanley Cup Preliminary Round where the Flyers swept the previously-located Colorado Rockies (NHL) in two games. Although these two teams faced each other on a regular basis since the Devils' relocation from Denver in 1982, the New Jersey–Philadelphia rivalry did not take off until their first playoff meeting since the Devils' relocation in the lockout-shortened 1994–95 season, when the Devils eliminated the Flyers in six games in the 1995 Eastern Conference Finals en route to winning the Stanley Cup. The turning point of the series came in Game 5, when Claude Lemieux scored from 65 feet out, sending a wobbly puck past Flyers goalie Ron Hextall, with 44 seconds left in regulation of a tie game. The series was considered an upset, as the Devils were the 5th seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, while the Flyers had made a dramatic improvement to end their five-year playoff drought by winning the division and the 2nd seed in the East, and were led by eventual Hart Memorial Trophy winner, captain Eric Lindros. Lindros and Devils captain Scott Stevens were afterwards known for their on-ice feuds. During the regular season, the Devils were leading in both the Eastern Conference and the Atlantic Division, but their 10-game slump near the end of the season resulted the Flyers overtaking them for both the division title and the #1 seed in the East. They would meet once again in