My apologies for the late blog post, on the road back home from Nashville, TN.

Columbus and Dallas review will be coming after the Philly review.

This is their third meeting of the season, and Columbus won the first two meets at home against the Flyers.

Both teams are in turnover mode, as the Jackets have announced they will be without the services of forward Yegor Chinakov short term, after suffering an injury against Dallas. Jet Graves has been recalled from Cleveland.

This adds Chinakov to the list with Sillinger, Jenner, Voracek, Danforth, Blankenburg, Werenski, Bean, Korpiaslo, and Boqvist.

Columbus has loaned defensemen Stanislav Svozil and David Jiricek to Czechia for the World Juniors.

Philadelphia has recently announced that former Columbus winger Cam Atkinson will not be playing this season.

Projected Lineups

Philadelphia Flyers

James van Reimsdyk—Morgan Frost—Owen Tippett
Joel Farabee—Noah Cates—Travis Konecny
Kevin Hayes—Scott Laughton—Zack MacEwen
Nicolas Deslauriers—Patrick Brown—Wade Allison

Ivan Provorov—Rasmus Ristalonen
Cam York—Justin Brain
Travis Sanhiem—Anthony DeAngelo

Carter Hart
Felix Sandstrom

Scratched — Nick Seeler, Max Willman

Injured — Sean Couturier, Tanner Laczynski, Cam Atkinson, Ryan Ellis


Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau—Kent Johnson—Patrik Laine
Gustav Nyquist—Jack Roslovic—Kirill Marchenko
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Liam Foudy
Carson Meyer—Josh Dunne—Mathieu Oliver

Vladislav Gavrikov—Marcus Bjork
Tim Breni—Erik Gubdranson
Jake Christiansen—Andrew Peeke

Daniil Tarasov
Jet Graves

Scratched — Gavin Bayreuther, Elvis Merzlikins,

Injured — Boone Jenner, Cole Sillinger, Yegor Chinakov, Joonas Korpisalo, Zach Werenski, Nick Blankenburg, Adam Boqvist, Jake Bean, Justin Danforth, Jake Bean

Players to Watch

Philadelphia — Ivan Provorov — Flyers’ best defenseman has just 12 points in 32 games this season; pointless in last 5. He averages 23:36 TOI.

Columbus — Vladislav Gavrikov — Columbus’ number one defenseman this season has 22:38 average TOI this season. The pending UFA has 9 points in 31 games, including 2 assists in his last 5.

Predicted Score

PHI - 4
CBJ - 5
OT/SO

Seems to always be revenge against Torts.

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