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The Flyers might be turning things around and why not?

With their 4-3, overtime win against the Phoenix Coyotes on Saturday night, the Flyers have now won four straight games.

They are only eight points behind the division leading New York Rangers and have leapfrogged the Islanders and into a fourth place tie with the New Jersey Devils.

Flyers’ goals were scored by Mike Knuble, Jeff Carter and Scott Hartnell in regulation and Mike Richards scored the game winner in overtime only 1:35 into the extra session.

The Coyote goal scorers were former Flyer Todd Fedoruk, Daniel Carcillo and Martin Hanzal. This was the fifth straight loss for the Coyotes, a season high.

The Coyotes were 7-0 when leading after two periods prior to Saturday night’s loss.

Coyotes head coach Wayne Gretzky wasn’t as disappointed with the overtime goal allowed by his team as he was with his team not taking advantage of their power play in overtime.

The Flyers scored the game winning goal right after killing off the Coyotes’ power play in overtime. Mike Richards came out of the penalty box and took a pass from Carter before send a wrist shot past Coyotes’ goaltender Mikael Tellqvist (30 saves).

Martin Biron made 25 saves for the Flyers.