With the Philadelphia Flyers finally getting a few days between games, most of the talk was about the line shuffling. If the team was lost in those idle thoughts, they were quickly jerked back to reality when Jeff Skinner and the Carolina Hurricanes scored a goal in the first minute last night.

The Flyers eventually got their feet under them, and a made push in the second period. The result was three goals, including two from the new Couturier line.  Ultimately it would take overtime, where for the second time this year Shayne Gostisbehere scored a game winning goal against the Hurricanes for a 4-3 Flyers win.

Game Flow

Goals:

0 – 1. Skinner (Di Guiseppe, Slavin). PHI on-ice: 25, 76, 78, 23, 53

1 – 1. Voracek (Gudas, Couturier). PHI on-ice: 14, 17, 93, 3, 15

1 – 2.  PPG, Skinner (Staal, Pesce). PHI on-ice: 25, 28, 3, 55

2 – 2. Schenn (Raffl, Gostisbehere). PHI on-ice: 10, 12, 28, 53, 82

3 – 2. Couturier (Voracek, Read). PHI on-ice: 14, 24, 93, 23, 53

3 – 3. Skinner (Di Guiseppe, Faulk). PHI on-ice: 25, 28, 76, 15, 82

4 – 3. 3v3, Gostisbehere (Voracek). PHI on-ice: 28, 53, 93

Forwards

The numbers look pretty good for every line, with the exception of the Bellemare line. Ryan White took his turn on the Flyers third line, but it was another weak performance for Bellemare, VandeVelde, and whoever was their third man.

The real happy story for the Flyers was the results for the Couturier line with Voracek on the left. Voracek opened the scoring, while Couturier added another himself.  Voracek would finish the game with three points.

The Giroux line added another goal, and it was a rare goal for them on which Claude Giroux did not register a point. Overall Hakstol should be pretty pleased with the performance of his top two lines last night.

Defense

Another typically strong performance from the top pair of Gudas and Del Zotto.  The second pair of Medvedev and Schultz also had a nice stat line, although it is surprising to see that pair have roughly equal ice time to Ghost and Manning. The two penalties Medvedev took might have played into that.

Manning and Ghost didn't have much possession to show for their increased ice time, even though they again saw slightly easier matchups than the top-4. They also conceded the first goal. All that is probably water the bridge after Ghost added one assist in regulation, then a pretty game winning overtime goal.

Highlights

Marc Naples is a contributor to Flyerdelphia and Sports Talk Philly. Follow him on Twitter@SuperScrub47.