The Flyers were able to squeak by the Islander 4-3 last night in New York.
Gagne scored twice, apparently he can score without Forsberg. Sharp and Pitkanen (power play) each added a goal. Looking at the replays, it did look to me the Islanders scored to tie the game with .2 seconds left, but the refs eventually said no.
Ryan Ready who was making his NHL debut had almost three minutes of ice time before leaving the game in the first period with a groin injury. He missed the first part of the season, only playing two games with the phantoms with the same injury.

“We played a heck of a hockey game,” Hitchcock said. “We played as well on the road as we have all year. We fought and clawed. You know, you’re down 2-0 and 3-1 on the road and to come back and win, the guys played really hard.

Gagne, Desjardins and Blake were the three stars.

/rant
The Flyers played good in the very beginning of the game and ok later in the third period, I missed the rest of the game. Storm came thru last night, I lost my satellite signal for most of the first and all of the second and some of the third period, very frustrating. If either one of my local cable companies would offer NHL Center Ice and not black out the Flyers I would be on cable. Why the one black out the games is beyond me. I mean, I am over a three hours drive from Philly.
/end rant

With the injury to Ryan Ready, Ben Eager (where do they find guys with these names) was called up from the Phantoms. Eager has 4 goals and 3 points in 17 games for the Phantoms. He also led all AHL rookies with 61 minor penalties in 04-05. His rights were acquired by the Flyers organization from the Phoenix Coyotes in the Sean Burke-Mike Comrie trade.