The Flyers scored late to beat the Wild 3-2 in Philadelphia. Branko Radivojevic scored on a rebound with 53 seconds left in the game to give the Flyers the lead and forgo any overtime.
Peter Forsberg had one goal and one assist in his return from injury. Kim Johnsson also scored, on the power play.
One fight in the game, Donald Brashear and Derek Boogarrd went. Brashear won the fight.

“It isn’t going to be pretty for a little while, and we all know that. But, this is the way you have to get points. You have to win games like this when you don’t have a lot of players healthy and we did that today and we got some really big efforts from a lot of people.” – Ken Hitchcock

Minnesota leads the league in penalty kill. Philadelphia is dead last but is inching closer to 29th.

Forsberg, Gaborik and Johnsson were the three stars.

Knuble, Handzus, Carter, Rathje and Brashear are the only players to play in all 28 games this season.