GAME NOTES
QUICK STATS
Season Series: 2-2-1
All-Time Record: 305gp (133-125-37-10)
Leading Scorer:
PHI - 31 pts: James van Riemsdyk (13g-18a)
NYR - 31 pts: Pavel Buchnevich (13g-18a)
1. SERIES CONTINUES
The Flyers & Rangers complete their pair of games today with identical records in a battle for playoff positioning... The Flyers are coming off two consecutive losses to the Rangers and look to snap a four-game losing skid (0-3-1), while the Rangers have won three in-a-row and earned points in six of their last seven (5-1-1)... This is the sixth of eight meetings and final one at Wells Fargo Center marking the first team this season the Flyers will finish their home schedule against... Seven of the last eight meetings between these two clubs has seen a total of at least six goals scored, including 29 combined goals in the last three meetings.
2. DAY-O
The Flyers own a 4-1-0 record in games that start before the traditional 7 p.m. puck drop and have outscored their opponent, 22-11... The Rangers are 3-2-0 in games that start before 7 p.m. and outscored their opponent, 17-12... Joel Farabee leads the Flyers in scoring in those games with nine points (1g-8a) in five games with Sean Couturier & Scott Laughton each posting seven points (4g-3a)... Ryan Strome leads the Rangers with five goals and six points in starts before 7pm, while Pavel Buchnevich also posting six points with a goal and five assists.
3. STREAKING & SNAPPING
Ryan Strome is on a seven-game point streak for the Rangers, recording 12 points (2g-10a), while defenseman Adam Fox has points in five straight (11pts, 1g-10a) ... After going three straight without a point, Sean Couturier has back-to-back two-point games with three goals... Joel Farabee (1g-1a) and Travis Konecny (2a) each have points in two straight... The Rangers have scored seven power-play goals in their last five games, including five in the last two, but the Flyers snapped the Rangers run of four straight perfect games on the penalty kill, going 2-for-3 on Thursday... The Flyers have power-play goals in back-to-back games.
4. THIS, THAT & THE OTHER
THIS: Ivan Provorov leads all players this year in ice time against the Rangers, averaging 25:30 through the first five games ... THAT: The Rangers are tied for second in the NHL for most goals scored in the second period (44) and have also scored 15 of their 26 goals in the second period in the season series vs. Flyers... THE OTHER: After Thursday's game the two teams have combined for 148 penalty minutes through the first five games of the series (PHI: 78 & NYR: 70)... The Flyers power play is 6-for-23 (26.1%) on the series while the Rangers man advantage is 7-for-22 (31.8%).
5. PLAYERS TO WATCH
FLYERS (LW: #28 - Claude Giroux)
The captain leads the Flyers in the season series with six points (2g-4a) and is tied for the most shots of any player in the series with 16 through just four games... He also has seven goals in the month of March, which is the most he has had in his NHL career for that month. He also has 12 points (5g-7a) in 14 games after suffering a loss.
RANGERS (D: #23 - Adam Fox)
The 23-year-old defenseman out of Harvard had five assists in the last game giving him 26 points (3g-23a) in 31 games this season which ties him for seventh among all d-men... He's on a five-game point streak and he has seven points (all assists) in five games and leads the Rangers in average ice-time (23:38) in the season series against the Flyers.
