Flyers 4, Blue Jackets 2
Defenseman Braydon Coburn collected a goal and an assist and Steve Mason made 20 saves against his former team as host Philadelphia snapped a season-high four-game losing skid.
Brayden Schenn scored his fourth goal in six contests and defenseman Mark Streit netted his second in as many games for the Flyers, who avenged a 4-3 setback to Columbus on Nov. 14. Wayne Simmonds added his team-leading eighth tally and former Blue Jacket Jakub Voracek and captain Claude Giroux each notched two assists.
Boone Jenner scored a power-play goal and Matt Calvert also tallied for Columbus, which has dropped 12 of its last 14 contests. (2-10-2). Former Flyer Sergei Bobrovsky finished with 33 saves after stopping 63-of-65 shots en route to winning his two previous meetings with Philadelphia.
With the score tied at 1-1, Streit accepted a feed from Giroux and elevated his own rebound past Bobrovsky at 14:55 of the first period. Simmonds doubled the Flyers' advantage at 15:17 of the second after leaping to catch a puck as it fluttered on the left doorstep before wheeling around and wiring a shot off Bobrovsky and into the net.
Columbus trimmed the deficit as Jack Skille breezed up the right wing before his centering feed was redirected home by Calvert at 2:06 of the third. Philadelphia regained its two-tally lead just 72 seconds later as Coburn recognized Bobrovsky had lost his stick and wired a shot past the netminder to end a 24-game goalless drought.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Schenn tipped Voracek's shot from the point past Bobrovsky to open the scoring at 2:37 and give Philadelphia its first lead since Nov. 8. That advantage lasted all of 1:59 as Jenner wired a shot from the right circle that sailed under the crossbar. ... Voracek has recorded 10 multi-point performances this season after having 16 all of 2013-14. ... Philadelphia has yielded nine power-play goals in its last 19 opportunities over the last five contests.