Flyers LW Dan Carcillo did not have a hearing for his hit on Rangers forward Ruslan Fedotenko and was not suspended. “I think it was a case of Danny seeing a guy in a vulnerable position and he tried to pull up at the last second,” Holmgren said. C Danny Briere will serve the final game of his three-game suspension tonight for high-sticking Islanders C Frans Nielsen. RW Andreas Nodl (shoulder) is expected to return to the lineup tonight after missing two games, prompting the return of Eric Wellwood to the Phantoms.

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Dan Carcillo was suspended twice last season – four games for cold-cocking Washington’s Matt Bradley, and two games for high-sticking New Jersey’s David Clarkson. So don’t be surprised if the Flyers’ ornery winger gets called on the carpet again, this time for elbowing Rangers forward Ruslan Fedotenko early in the third period of Thursday’s 4-1 win in Philadelphia, especially since Rangers coach John Tortorella called him out in his post-game press conference. “Do I have a problem with it? Sure, why wouldn’t I?” Tortorella said

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The four wins in a row marks the Flyers’ longest win streak since Feb. 8 through March 2 of last year when they went 5-0, winning four times before the Olympic break and once after. –The Flyers won 40 of 66 faceoffs (61 percent) against the Hurricanes, their best performance as a team of the season. “It’s an underrated part of the game and our centermen have been working hard at practice on draws,” said Claude Giroux, who won 11 of his 18 faceoffs. –D Andrej Meszaros sat out Monday night’s game with concussion symptoms after his head was checked into the glass by Islanders forward Trent Hunter midway through Saturday night’s game.

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Flyers center Danny Briere was slapped with a three-game suspension today for cross-checking Islanders forward Frans Nielsen in the face in the final minute of Saturday’s 6-01 win at the Wells Fargo Center. Briere, who is tied for the team lead with six goals, will be forced to sit out games against the Hurricanes tonight, the Rangers on Thursday and the Islanders on Saturday and will return Sunday in Washington when the Flyers face the Capitals.

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The Flyers and Islanders won’t have to wait long to settle any unfinished business from Saturday night’s penalty-filled fracas. The two teams combined for 120 minutes in penalties in the Flyers’ 6-1 win in Philadelphia and will face each other again on Saturday, Nov. 6 on Long Island

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Flyers captain Mike Richards set the tone when he dropped the gloves with Penguins irritant Matt Cooke just 6 seconds into the game. Richards later set up the first of Claude Giroux’s two goals as the Flyers won back-to-back games for the first time this season. They also grabbed a share of the Atlantic Division lead with the Penguins, who lost their third straight.

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There are two hammers coaches can always hold over their players’ heads. One is ice time. The other are days off

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Thursday’s loss was Philadelphia’s first home regulation loss to Anaheim in exactly 10 years, dating back to a 5-4 defeat on October 21, 2000. They were 2-0-1 in three home games since then. (The teams did not meet in Philadelphia for a six-year stretch from Feb. 2002 to Feb

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A year ago, the Flyers finished third in the NHL with a 21.4 percent success rate on the power play. Through four games this season they rank 27th with a 5.9 percent success rate. And they weren’t much better in the preseason , going 2-for-27 (7.4 percent) in eight games. So why have the Flyers started the season 1-for-17 on the man-advantage? And why did they go 0-for-4, including just one shot on a 5-on-3, in their 3-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning Thursday night

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If his NHL debut is any indication, the Sergei Bobrovsky era in Philadelphia could be upon us. Facing one of the NHL’s most explosive lineups in his NHL debut, the Flyers’ 22-year-old Russian rookie showed flashes of his raw athletic ability in a season-opening 3-2 win over the Penguins in front of a sellout crowd of 18,087 inside the pristine CONSOL Energy Center.

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