It’s hardly an exclusive club, but Mark Recchi is establishing himself as something of a Thrashers killer.
Recchi snapped two third-period ties to lift the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-4 victory Sunday over the Atlanta Thrashers. He has eight goals and 12 assists in 13 career games against Atlanta, leading Philadelphia to a 10-1-3 record against the expansion team.
“It’s hard not to fall into their trap,” Recchi said of Atlanta’s wide-open offensive style. “They’re a young team that likes to run and gun. We can’t afford to do that. Fortunately, we ended up scoring more than them.”
Recchi put the Flyers ahead 4-3 at 11:11 of the third, knocking a rebound past Pasi Nurminen.
But Atlanta’s Marc Savard answered at 12:24 on a similar goal, diving to poke in the rebound of Shawn McEachern’s shot from the point.
The Flyers then came back again as Recchi fired in a high wrist shot over Nurminen at 14:29 for his second game-winning goal of the season and his 11th overall.
“We played really well for 50 or 55 minutes, but we were in another place for five minutes,” Atlanta’s Brad Tapper said.
RESULTS, SUNDAY’S SYNOPSIS
Detroit 4 at Blackhawks 3
Complete Blackhawks coverage. Pages 1, 5.
Philadelphia 5 at Atlanta 4
Flyers ended longest trip of season 4-2-1; they don’t play more than three straight road games the rest of the way.
Dallas 1 at Anaheim 1
Pierre Turgeon scored the tying goal as the Stars extended their unbeaten streak to six (4-0-2) with their 10th tie.
