Philadelphia Flyers (24-18-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (24-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets host the Philadelphia Flyers after Mason Marchment’s hat trick against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Blue Jackets’ 8-5 win.<\/p>\n
Columbus has gone 24-20-7 overall with a 4-7-3 record against the Metropolitan Division. The Blue Jackets are 8-7-6 in games decided by a single goal.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia has gone 24-18-9 overall with a 5-4-4 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Flyers have committed 215 total penalties (4.2 per game) to rank seventh in the league.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Wednesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Zachary Werenski has scored 19 goals with 36 assists for the Blue Jackets. Kirill Marchenko has three goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Trevor Zegras has 19 goals and 27 assists for the Flyers. Owen Tippett has scored five goals with three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 6-4-0, averaging three goals, 4.6 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flyers: 2-6-2, averaging 2.5 goals, 3.6 assists, 5.1 penalties and 13.3 penalty minutes while giving up 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: None listed.<\/p>\n
Flyers: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers (24-18-9, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (24-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5105],"tags":[53191,301,5,189,4,292,43,540,92,5168,5167],"class_list":{"0":"post-430721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-53191","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-lightning","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tampa-bay","16":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","17":"tag-tampabay","18":"tag-tampabaylightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}