New York allowed seven even strength goals, with two redirects in front and two others coming off odd-man rushes. The offense for the Rangers, which has been struggling to generate much, scored four times in the game's first 25:47, and finished the game with 40 shots on goal.
That offensive success made the performance on the other side of the puck all the more frustrating for Zuccarello.
"We created a lot of chances, but it's hard when you give them easy goals like that," he said. "You work so hard to get a goal right now, and we just give it back to them as easy as that. That's not good enough. It's been going on for too long."
After poor starts in Minnesota and Ottawa that bookended a shutout loss in Brooklyn on Thursday, it was the Rangers who struck first on a goal by Kevin Hayes just 1:30 into the game. After the Flyers tied things, Rick Nash responded with his 18th of the season to put New York back ahead.
But no early lead was safe, as the Flyers again responded quickly when Scott Laughton tied things and Brandon Manning followed 2:42 later to give the visitors their first - but not last - lead of the afternoon.
Zuccarello followed suit with an answer for the Rangers with 2:39 to play in the first to square things again.
It was déjà vu in the opening minutes of the second, as Nolan Patrick put the Flyers ahead again only for Peter Holland to notch his first goal as a Rangers at 5:47 of the middle frame.
Travis Konecny's goal at 15:04 snapped the fourth and final tie of the afternoon. Claude Giroux and Jori Lehtera both scored in the third.
New York has dropped eight of its last 10 and four of six since management announced its goal of acquiring younger talent at next week's trade deadline.
Henrik Lundqvist, who allowed all seven goals a day after allowing five against the Senators, was honest with how he's feeling mentally following these last few weeks where the team has struggled to keep pace in the playoff race.
"It's terrible," he said bluntly. "Absolutely terrible. We live for this. It means so much to all of us that when you don't win and you don't get the result - you just have to work really hard to get that feeling you need in the room to play your best. It's not a good feeling."
