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Vancouver 5th Pacific35-36-5-6
Philadelphia 6th Metropolitan37-37-7-1
Sportsnet, NBCSP, TVA

Vancouver @ Philadelphia preview

Wells Fargo Center

Last Meeting ( Dec 15, 2018 ) Philadelphia 1, Vancouver 5


While celebrated rookie Carter Hart is receiving his fair share of credit for the Philadelphia Flyers' turnaround, a now potent power play has packed a punch during the last two contests. The resurgent Flyers look to push their season-high winning streak to eight when they play the second contest of their five-game homestand on Monday versus the Vancouver Canucks.

"Confidence helps in the power play. You make plays, you keep it simple. The power play hasn't won us a lot of games this year, but (Saturday) we were able to make a few plays," captain Claude Giroux told reporters following Saturday afternoon's 5-4 overtime win over Edmonton. Giroux joined Sean Couturier, Wayne Simmonds and Travis Konecny in scoring with the man advantage, marking the first time Philadelphia has scored four power-play goals in a contest since 2008 -and giving the club's formerly NHL worst power play six tallies in its last two games. While the Flyers sit seven points out of the final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, Vancouver moved past sliding Colorado for the second wild card in the West by opening its four-game road trip with Saturday's 5-1 rout of the Avalanche. "You want to be in the mix and we're right in it right now," goaltender Jacob Markstrom told reporters. "They're seven, eight teams for two spots, three spots. It's tight. You need to win games, especially against a team that's in that race as well. Points are important."

TV: 7 p.m. ET, TVA, Sportsnet Pacific (Vancouver), NBCS Philadelphia

ABOUT THE CANUCKS (24-22-6): Brock Boeser scored on Saturday to lift the Canucks to a 4-1-2 mark in their last seven games and the right wing had a goal and an assist in a 5-1 win over Philadelphia on Dec. 15. The 21-year-old Boeser has seven points (three goals, four assists) in his past six contests while fellow forward Bo Horvat (team-leading 24 assists) is riding a four-game point streak. Celebrated rookie Elias Pettersson (club-best 23 goals, 46 points), who had an assist in the previous encounter with the Flyers, has four points (one goal, three assists) in three games since returning from a knee sprain.

ABOUT THE FLYERS (23-23-6): Hart overcame a sluggish start to turn aside a career-high 40 shots versus the Oilers and become the first Philadelphia rookie to record a six-game winning streak since eventual two-time Vezina Trophy recipient Sergei Bobrovsky accomplished the feat on two occasions in the 2010-11 season. With a win Monday, the 20-year-old Hart will match Tom Barrasso (Buffalo) and Carey Price (Montreal) with seven-game win streaks before their 21st birthday and move just one behind Jocelyn Thibault (Quebec). Couturier has helped provide offense for Hart, recording 14 points (five goals, nine assists) in his last 10 games.

OVERTIME

1. Vancouver answered a 1-for-21 stretch on the power play in its previous eight contests by scoring a power-play goal on Saturday and thwarted all three short-handed situations to improve to 13-for-14 on the penalty kill in the last four.

2. Philadelphia RW Jakub Voracek has set up six goals during his three-game assist streak.

3. Although the Canucks defeated the Flyers in December, they are just 3-7-0 versus Metropolitan Division representatives.

PREDICTION: Canucks 3, Flyers 2

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