Rasmus Ristolainen scored in overtime and the Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Tuesday night.

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T he Philadelphia Flyers will play the Detroit Red Wings tonight. A win in regulation would put the Flyers four points ahead of Detroit in the wild-card standings. However, if the

The Flyers are rocking and rolling. With their latest win, a 2-1 overtime victory against the Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday, Philly’s hockey club has now achieved a season-high six-game point streak, which includes five wins.

Facing off for the third and final time this season, the Red Wings (21-21-4; 46 points) and Flyers (21-20-6; 48 points) will drop the puck at 7 p.m., with broadcast coverage on FanDuel Sports Network Detroit and the Red Wings Radio Network (97.1 The Ticket in Detroit).

It might be a while before a game featuring two Eastern Conference teams is completely meaningless in the playoff picture. Entering play on Tuesday night, five points separated seventh place in the conference from 13th,

BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Flyers and the Detroit Red Wings square off in Eastern Conference action. Philadelphia has a 10-11-1 record at home and a 21-20-6 record overall. The Flyers have a 5-9-1 record in games they have more penalties than their opponent.

Dylan Larkin scored two goals and the surging Detroit Red Wings beat the Florida Panthers 5-2 on Thursday night. Larkin, Jonatan Berggren and Patrick Kane had power-play goals for Detroit, which also got a goal from Marco Kasper.

Looking to build upon their six-game point streak, John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (22-20-6) begin an Empire State back-to-back on Thursday against Peter Laviolette's New York Rangers (23-20-4).

Lengthy point streaks by the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers are helping the Metropolitan rivals ascend in a crowded Eastern Conference playoff race where eight teams are separated by five points.

Plenty of Philadelphia Flyers fans are frustrated with the pace of the rebuild. It has been a long time since the Flyers have been in the Stanley Cup conversation instead of the wild-card, middle, or worse,