Now in third place of the Metropolitan Division, the Flyers will look to stay there.
They can do so Thursday night when the Flyers (33-20-7) finish a home-and-home set with the Blue Jackets (30-19-12).
Let's get into the essentials:
• When: 7 p.m. ET with Flyers Pregame Live at 6:30 p.m. ET
• Where: Nationwide Arena
• Broadcast: NBC Sports Philadelphia
• Live stream: NBCSportsPhiladelphia.com and the NBC Sports MyTeams app
• In 2018-19, the Flyers lost all four matchups with the Blue Jackets as they went 0-2-2 and were outscored 18-12.
Tonight, the Flyers can finish off a four-game regular-season series sweep of their own if they beat Columbus. This season, the Flyers are 3-0-0 and have outscored the Blue Jackets 15-7.
Columbus has a different team than it did last season, but it's still right there in the playoff race. The Flyers also clearly have a different team in 2019-20. They are 11-4-4 in the competitive Metropolitan Division after going 10-16-2 against divisional foes last season.
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• With 73 points, the Flyers are in third place of the Metropolitan Division, one point ahead of the Hurricanes, Islanders and Blue Jackets, all of whom have 72 points apiece.
The Flyers have a 76.8 percent chance to make the playoffs, according to Hockey-Reference.com. Carolina and New York are not in action tonight.
• The Blue Jackets have lost six straight games (0-3-3).
Projected lineup
Forwards
Claude Giroux-Sean Couturier-Jakub Voracek
Joel Farabee-Kevin Hayes-Travis Konecny
James van Riemsdyk-Scott Laughton-Tyler Pitlick
Michael Raffl-Connor Bunnaman-Nicolas Aube-Kubel
Defensemen
Ivan Provorov-Matt Niskanen
Travis Sanheim-Philippe Myers
Robert Hagg-Mark Friedman
Goalies
Brian Elliott
Carter Hart
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