The San Jose Sharks, who have been loosing their last five games, came up with a stellar performance on Thursday night to beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3 – 1 at the Wachovia Center. The goal scorers for the Sharks were Jonathan Cheechoo, Milan Michalek and defenseman Douglas Murray. The Flyers team was not on top of the game and about 26 of their attempts on the goal were saved by the Sharks goal custodian Evegni Nabokov, who played the game with stitches on his nose. The Flyers have had a still poorer record than the Sharks prior to this game and have not defeated the Sharks since December 2001. Just before the match commenced, the Flyers honored the current Sharks center and former Philadelphia Flyers player Jeremy Roenick for achieving 500 career goals.

The game certainly had its moments of thrills and spills and half way through the first half, the left wings Jody and Riley had a brawl exchanging blows on each other for about 90 seconds. Mike Knuble was the lone goal scorer for the Philadelphia Flyers and the home crowd booed off the team after their ninth successive loss which could also see them out of the Eastern Conference playoffs.