PHILADELPHIA – Mike Knuble scored the go-ahead goal with 2:05 left and Antero Niittymaki stopped 24 shots to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-2 victory over Pittsburgh, the Penguins 10th straight loss.

Michal Handzus and Petr Nedved also scored for the Flyers, who beat the lowly Penguins for the second time in three days. The Flyers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh on Saturday, and they completed the home-and-home sweep with their first win at the Wachovia Center since Dec. 22.

Peter Forsberg returned to the lineup for the Atlantic Division-leading Flyers after missing two games because of an abdominal muscle strain. He had an assist on Knuble’s 22nd goal.

The Penguins’ 10-game losing streak is one worse than the 0-4-5 mark they opened the season with and they’ve been held to two goals or less in seven of the last eight games. Pittsburgh hasn’t forced an overtime in any of the 10 losses.

After the Penguins tied it at 2 late in third, Knuble redirected the puck with his stick blade from the slot past Marc-Andre Fleury for another dramatic Philadelphia victory.

Simon Gagne scored an empty-net goal with 5 seconds left, his 33rd of the season.

Not that the Penguins didn’t make it interesting. Michel Ouellet’s 12th goal of the season with 7:42 remaining tied the game. It was a power-play goal after Randy Jones was called for delay of game.

Handzus scored his eighth goal of the season with 45.5 seconds left in the first period, knocking in a loose puck for a 1-0 lead. The puck hit off Fleury’s mask and Handzus was all alone to put it in.

Fleury had 32 saves.

Nedved scored his first goal for the Flyers since he was acquired in a trade with Phoenix on Friday. With Brooks Orpik in the penalty box for hooking, Nedved took advantage with his third goal of the season for a 2-0 lead.

Former Flyer Mark Recchi added his 14th goal in second period to make it 2-1. Still, it wasn’t enough to help the Penguins avoid their 11th loss in the last 12 games.

Notes: The Flyers traded D Jon Sim to Florida on Monday for a sixth-round pick in the 2007 draft. Sim had seven goals and seven assists for 14 points and 28 penalty minutes in 39 games with the Flyers this season. … The Flyers played without defensemen Joni Pitkanen and Kim Johnsson. Pitkanen, who had been out since Dec. 6 after having abdominal surgery for a sports hernia, briefly played in Saturday’s win.

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