The Flyers dominated early and was able to hold on to a 4-3 win over the Senators last night in Philly.
Mike Knuble (power play), Sami Kapanen, R.J. Umberger and Simon Gagne (power play) each scored for the Flyers. Gagne’s return after missing five games was successful with a goal and an assist. This as the first game since November 25 that Gagne and Forsberg have played together.
Besides Donald Brashear (who actually played well) every other Flyer was in double digits for ice time minutes, which is important with a game tonight in Pittsburgh.
For the first half of the game the Flyers played very good. They showed a lot of hustle, winning the battles along the boards and getting some lucky breaks. Flyers were up 4-0 halfway thru the game. Then they started to sit back on the lead. The Senators scored 2 goals in the second and one in the third. In the end the Flyers were able to hold on for the win.

We needed to win these games if we’re going to improve. We did a lot of things well today. There were things in the third period that in a month or three weeks from now we’re going to get better at. We’re still learning to do some things in closing down hockey games and winning them, but we still need to win these games to prove to ourselves that we’re trying to be a top dog here and I thought for the first forty-five or fifty minutes we played a great hockey game. They have a really good team and they come at you hard. They don’t like to lose. – Ken Hithcock

Antero Niittymaki played a strong game with only one of the goals he allowed I would consider soft. He made great saves against Peter Schaefer and Bryan Smolinkski.
Freddy Meyer got his first NHL point with an assist on Umbergers goal.
Kapanen, Schaffer and Niittymaki were the three stars.
Knuble extended his goal-scoreing streak to four games
The Flyers are 2-0 against the Senators this season. Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock coached his 700 game.