{"id":147593,"date":"2026-03-25T03:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147593\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T03:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:06:07","slug":"philadelphia-flyers-3-game-winning-streak-ends-in-loss-to-columbus-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/147593\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Flyers&#8217; 3-game winning streak ends in loss to Columbus Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Werenski continued his torrid scoring pace with a goal and an assist as the Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus scored a pair of goals 1:44 apart to start the second period. The Blue Jackets outshot the Flyers 6-0 in the opening three minutes of the period. <\/p>\n<p>Mathieu Olivier scored the first goal 44 seconds into the second period, taking a pass from Werenski on a 3-on-2 rush and snapping a shot over the glove of Philadelphia goalie Dan Vladar to tie the score 1-1. <\/p>\n<p>On his next shift, Werenski came out of the corner and worked his way into the high slot. He took a pass from Damon Severson and beat Vladar with a snapshot. <\/p>\n<p>Werenski now has 77 points this season, second-most among NHL defensemen. <\/p>\n<p>Mason Marchment also scored for Columbus, which moved into second place in the Metropolitan Division with points in 13 of its last 14 games (9-1-4). <\/p>\n<p>Jet Greaves made 23 saves for the Blue Jackets, and kept his team in the game with nine first-period saves.<\/p>\n<p>Greaves thwarted Owen Tippett on a breakaway and then stopped Noah Cates on successive shots \u2014 first a wrap around shot where he made a sprawling skate save to deny the scoring chance, and a moment later when he stopped Cates on a penalty shot. <\/p>\n<p>Sean Couturier and Jamie Drysdale scored for Philadelphia, who had its three-game winning streak and six-game point streak snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: Wrap up a three-game road trip in Montreal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers: Host Chicago on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zach Werenski continued his torrid scoring pace with a goal and an assist as the Columbus Blue Jackets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11386,4843,69,4845,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-147593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-nhl","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-flyers","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}