Blue Jackets Maintain No-Fly Zone, Beat The Philadelphia Flyers

By Sam Blazer on December 23, 2017 at 10:06 pm
Artemi Panarin skates in the offensive zone and puts pressure on the Flyers
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It wasn't your typical Metropolitan Division affair. Not a lot of offense and not a lot of defense as both sides got shots on the opposing goaltender time and time again. The goaltenders would stand tall to make it a low scoring game.

The Philadelphia Flyers came into this game on the back end of a back-to-back and with the holiday break coming both teams were ready to empty the tank.

  1 2 3 OT F
Blue Jackets 1 0 0 1 2
Flyers 0 1 0 0 1

The Columbus Blue Jackets would open the scoring in the first period on the power play on a seeing-eye shot from Seth Jones that deflected off of Flyers' defenseman Ivan Provorov.

In the second period, the Flyers would get their revenge when Provorov would take a Claude Giroux pass and put it past Sergei Bobrovsky.

The Blue Jackets would push the pace in the third period and outshot the Flyers but were unable to find another goal to beat Philadelphia.

In the extra frame, nothing was doing so the two teams went to the shootout. No goals were scored except for one. There was a goal from Pierre-Luc Dubois who had never taken a shootout shot in his career.

Injury Update

Zach Weresnki is out with a "body" injury and there is no timetable given for his recovery. Ryan Murray has been skating since early December but no date has been given for his return. Alexander Wennberg has a lower-body injury and will be out indefinitely.

Next Up

The Blue Jackets enter the holiday break and will not be back in action until they play the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday, December 27 at 7:00 p.m. on Fox Sports Ohio.

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