PHILADELPHIA — Owen Tippett scored his second goal of the game with 15.5 seconds left in overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 4-3 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets and snap a seven-game losing streak on Tuesday night.
The game pitted two of the league’s worst clubs. The Blue Jackets sit at the bottom of the Eastern Conference and tied with Chicago for the fewest points in the NHL. Only six teams in the league have less points than Philadelphia.
James van Riemsdyk registered his 300th career goal and Joel Farabee added a score for the Flyers. Netminder Carter Hart made 28 saves.
Trey Fix-Wolansky, Sean Kuraly and Liam Foudy scored for Columbus, which has now lost four in a row and eight of their last nine.
Van Riemsdyk, who could likely be playing in his final home game in a Flyers uniform, provided the night’s first highlight with a wrister from a sharp angle to beat goalie Michael Hutchinson on the blocker side with 4:27 left in the first period, tying the game at 2.
Neither team had many opportunities in the overtime until Tippett fired a shot high over Hutchinson from close range with seconds left in OT. Ivan Provorov and Cam York assisted the winner.
Hutchison finished with 35 saves in the losing effort.
The game was the final contest in Philadelphia for the Flyers, who wrap up another subpar season on Thursday in Chicago. The Flyers will miss the playoffs for the third straight season and fourth in the last five years.
First-year coach and former Columbus head man, John Tortorella, has gotten what he could out of a rebuilding club. He has said the club will be shuffling their roster in the offseason to get players to play the style that he believes will get the Flyers back to their winning ways.
Blue Jackets have two remaining games on the season, they'll host Pittsburgh on Thursday and Buffalo on Friday.
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