The Flyers somehow found a way to hang on to beat the Thrashers 4-3 in Philly. Thrashers out shot the Flyers 31-18 and also outplayed them most of the game. The Flyers were losing many of the small battles. They would win the face off, but then lose the puck from being out hustled by the Thrashers.
This from a team, the Thrashers, who played the night before and lost in overtime. They showed no let up in energy, energy the Flyers did not seem to have.

“It looked to me like we tried to play around the competition rather than through it,” Hitchcock said.

Gagne did pick up his first hat trick of the season, second of his career.
Flyers have won six straight games at home.
Johnsson returned to the lineup, recovering from a pulled groin muscle.

Gagne, Hatcher and Kozlov were the three stars.
Hatcher doesn’t deserve a star for that game. Besides not having any points, Hossa’s goal with mainly Hatcher’s fault. On the penalty kill, Hatcher floated out toward the face off circle where no one was at, leaving Hossa alone beside the net. This has happened atleast twice before.
Give the star to Esche.

Steven Shields of the Thrashers was scheduled to start in goal, but suffered a knee injury during warm-ups. Mike Dunham who played the previous night started in goal.