Washington Capitals vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Saturday, October 20, 2001 · First Union Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 6–3 on Saturday, October 20, 2001 at First Union Center. The Flyers outshot the Capitals 39–22.
Mark Recchi scored a hat trick and John LeClair scored twice. Jaromir Jagr, Andrei Nikolishin, Eric Weinrich and Ulf Dahlen also scored.
Roman Cechmanek made 19 saves on 22 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Recchi (1)John LeClair (2), Jeremy Roenick (9)0–107:44 PHI · 
Jaromir Jagr (3)Ulf Dahlen (3), Jeff Halpern (3)1–115:37 WSH- Mark Recchi (2)Eric Desjardins (2), Jeremy Roenick (10)1–219:02 PHI
2nd period
Andrei Nikolishin (2)Dainius Zubrus (4), Trevor Linden (2)2–201:59 WSH
John LeClair (5)Mark Recchi (3), Kim Johnsson (5)2–311:12 PHI
Eric Weinrich (2)Paul Ranheim (1), Kent Manderville (2)2–411:49 PHI- John LeClair (6)Eric Desjardins (3), Simon Gagne (3)2–516:42 PHI ·
3rd period
- Mark Recchi (3)Jeremy Roenick (11)2–604:56 PHI ·
Ulf Dahlen (4)Sergei Gonchar (6)3–612:43 WSH
Team stats
WSHPHI
2239
51%49%
0/22/7
199
1814
108
911
65
Penalties
- 5:48 into the first period
Brendan Witt · holding2 min - 2:26 into the second period
Todd Fedoruk · fighting5 min - 2:26 into the second periodStephen Peat · fighting5 min
- 3:56 into the second periodSylvain Cote · tripping2 min
- 14:28 into the second periodJoe Reekie · high sticking2 min
- 15:39 into the second periodKen Klee · high sticking2 min
- 3:13 into the third periodKent Manderville · holding the stick2 min
- 8:33 into the third periodRob Zettler · elbowing2 min
- 9:52 into the third periodSergei Gonchar · hooking2 min
- 15:16 into the third periodChris Therien · interference2 min
- 18:21 into the third periodJoe Reekie · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 16:54 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:47 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 16:35 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:10 |
| 16Trevor LindenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:19 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 22:05 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:51 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:12 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 06:54 |
| 28Peter FerraroR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:51 |
| 51Stephen PeatR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:19 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:33 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:26 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:16 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:31 |
| 24Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:46 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:46 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 10 | 1 | .900 | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 8Mark RecchiR | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 6 | 21:00 |
| 10John LeClairL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 19:55 |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 20:30 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 23:13 |
| 12Simon GagneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 15:45 |
| 19Paul RanheimL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:33 |
| 28Kent MandervilleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 13:09 |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:19 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:47 |
| 11Vaclav PletkaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:34 |
| 14Justin WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 09:58 |
| 26Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:52 |
| 27Jan HlavacL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:48 |
| 29Todd FedorukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:45 |
| 39Marty MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 19:03 |
| 3Dan McgillisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24:05 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 22Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Roman CechmanekG | W | 22 | 3 | .864 |
| 33Brian BoucherG | 0 | 0 | – |