The Columbus Blue Jackets conclude their final multi game home series of the seasoning facing John Tortorella and Cam Atkinson of the Philadelphia Flyers for the last time this season.

The season series split is 2-1 for the Flyers. Jackets look to even it out at home.

Since they last met, the Flyers lost their starting goaltender; dealt their top rental defender; and acquired a cup winner. With that, they brought in Ryan Johansen and a first round pick. The cup is Erik Johnson, who was moved by Buffalo.

The Flyers also recently acquired both their Russian goaltenders to help with the playoff race. Ivan Fedetov, at 6 foot 7 inches tall is the new starter as Samuel Ersson and Felix Sandstrom compete for the backup. Cal Petersen remains with Leigh High Valley.

Philadelphia is in the mix for the second wild card playoff spot with the New York Islanders, New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals, Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. Two of these teams will make it.

They are coming in off a back to back after playing in Buffalo last night in a losing effort.

Columbus has the chance to mess up their season by winning the first game of their back to back; they’re final one of the season. They have been dealing with the sick and injury bug while captain Boone Jenner is out mourning the loss of his stillborn. Daniil Tarasov is out after getting hurt in the first against the Islanders. Malcom Subban will back up in his CBJ debut. Jake Bean is also done for the year. Nick Blankenburg is back on the main roster with Jiricek.

Projected Lineups

Philadelphia Flyers

Tyson Foerster -- Morgan Frost-- Travis Konecny

Owen Tippett -- Scott Laughton -- Bobby Brink

Olle Lycksell -- Ryan Poehling -- Garnet Hathaway

Joel Farabee -- Noah Cates -- Cam Atkinson

Cam York -- Travis Sanheim

Nick Seeler -- Jamie Drysdale

Egor Zamula -- Erik Johnson

Samuel Ersson

Ivan Fedotov

Scratched: Nicolas Deslauriers, Denis Gurianov, Marc Staal, Ronnie Attard, Adam Ginning, Ryan Johansen

Injured: Sean Couturier (upper body), Rasmus Ristolainen (upper body)

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau -- Dmitri Voronkov -- Alex Nylander

Alexandre Texier -- Cole Sillinger -- Kirill Marchenko

James Malatesta -- Justin Danforth -- Carson Meyer

Mikael Pyyhtia -- Brendan Gaunce -- Mathieu Olivier

Zach Werenski -- Damon Severson

Ivan Provorov -- Erik Gudbranson

Nick Blankenburg -- David Jiricek

Jet Greaves

Malcolm Subban

Scratched: None

Injured: Adam Fantilli (calf laceration), Sean Kuraly (lower body), Yegor Chinakhov (upper body), Adam Boqvist (upper body), Elvis Merzlikins (lower body), Jake Bean (broken hand), Daniil Tarasov (upper body), Boone Jenner (personal)

Players to Watch

Philadelphia — Erik Johnson — first time in Orange against Blue Jackets

Columbus — Ivan Provorov — former Flyer legend.

Predicted Final Score

PHI

CBJ

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