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Daniel Briere scored two goals and Chris Pronger had three assists as the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 at Wachovia Center on Wednesday night.

Dan Carcillo scored the winner at 10:13 of the second period on a nice individual effort. He sent Luke Schenn onto his stomach with a left and right move, fell to one knee, got up and put Jonas Gustavsson on the deck before going around him for an easy tap-in.

Brad Richards, Danny Syvret and James van Riemsdyk also scored for the Flyers (20-19-3). Briere notched his 500th NHL point on his second goal at 4:54 of the third period.

Michael Leighton (6-4-1), signed off waivers from the Carolina Hurricanes on Dec. 15, stopped 30 shots for the win.

Nikolai Kulemin and Alexi Ponikarovsky scored for Toronto (15-20-9) as the Leafs fall to 7-12-4 on the road. They finish their two-game road trip when they face the Buffalo Sabres at HSBC Arena on Friday night.

Gustavsson (8-8-7) turned away 26 in the loss.

Philadelphia went 3-for-6 with the man advantage while the Leafs went 0-4.

The Flyers took a 1-0 lead on the power play at 4:11 of the first period when Briere banged an errant shot into the top half of the net by a diving Gustavsson.

Philadelphia doubled the lead at 19:09 of the first when Syvret drilled a slap shot from the point, that beat Gustavsson high to the glove.

The only goal of the second came at 10:13 when Carcillo made it 3-0 for the Flyers.

In the third, Briere, Richards and van Riemsdyk scored for Philadelphia while Kulemin and Ponikarovsky replied for Toronto.