Maybe it was because it was a day game and the building was packed.

Maybe it was because the Flyers were in the basement of the NHL, one point ahead of the last-seeded San Jose Sharks, who should have been there.

Maybe it was because a turnaround had occurred in the second half of their latest loss on Wednesday and they were ready to show coach John Tortorella he was right when he said Friday, “We’re not as bad as this.”

Whatever it was, the atmosphere inside the Wells Fargo Center felt different Saturday afternoon. Captain Sean Couturier strapped his men onto his surgically repaired back and had a hat trick and two assists. Travis Konecny, on Friday’s daily list, had a goal and four assists, and Russian phenom Matvei Michkov scored a goal and had an assist.

The result was an impressive, hard-fought 7-5 victory against one of the NHL’s top teams, the Minnesota Wild. It marked the Flyers’ second win of the season in eight games and their first on home court, while also snapping a six-game losing streak.

Couturier got the Flyers on the board 78 seconds into the game, scoring a juicy rebound off a Rasmus Ristolainen point shot. If you couldn’t tell by his reaction, it was huge for the team and for him. His last goal came on February 10 – before he was given the ‘C’ – and it was career point No. 500.

And the Flyers continued to apply pressure. Nick Seeler, who had one goal in 71 games last season and only six in his Flyers career, got the puck in the high slot on a great pass through two Wild skaters from Konecny. Seeler skated through the middle and waited patiently before firing a shot past Filip Gustavsson.

It was the start the Flyers wanted. They were predicting and finally found their transition game. And they scored on two of their three shots in the first period.

“Yes, it’s important for us to get a good start and of course Coots starts us off there with a good shot from Risto,” Minnesotan Seeler told 97.5 The Fanatic during the first break, “and then a great feed from TK and its side opening.”

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But to start the day, the Wild have lost in regulation this season for a reason. In the second period, Brock Faber turned up the middle after passing to Kirill Kaprizov and deflected his shot past Sam Ersson. Then, 33 seconds later, Marcus Foligno carried the puck out of his zone on a three-on-one, holding it as the Flyers backchecked before scoring from the slot.

Michkov put the Flyers ahead again on a delayed penalty with a shot from above the circle after skating into the middle, similar to his goal Wednesday against the Capitals. That goal stood for 100 seconds as, on a power play for Minnesota, after the Flyers were called for too many men, Joel Eriksson Ek tied the score at 3.

The Wild took a 4-3 lead early in the third inning, but as mentioned, the atmosphere was different this game. The Flyers’ power play did something it couldn’t do last year: It helped pull them back into the game. Konecny, standing in his spot next to the left post, buried the puck after Morgan Frost’s shot hit the end boards.

Less than four minutes later, Couturier added his second of the game by knocking in the puck on his third attempt. “Coots” rained down from the faithful before Jacob Middleton tied it back up at five o’clock.

But don’t count out the Flyers, as they showed last season. After a crazy scramble up front, defenseman Ristolainen crashed the net and rammed the puck in to give the Flyers the lead with 2:24 left in regulation time. Couturier capped the hat trick with an empty-netter and the Flyers handed the Wild their first regular-season loss.

Escapes

Before the game, the Flyers announced that Jett Luchanko had returned to the junior ranks. … The Flyers also announced they will be without top defenseman Cam York for at least two weeks due to an upper-body injury.

Next

The Flyers get right back at it on Sunday against the Montreal Canadiens at the Wells Fargo Center (7 p.m., NBCSP).