Philadelphia Flyers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins Watch FREE: NHL Online Streaming from Consol Energy Center at 3:00 PM ET
The Penguins hopes of grabbing the Eastern Conference's top seed are long gone, and now the Flyers chances of getting home-ice advantage in the first round are over.
That doesn't mean both teams don't have goals in mind for the final two games of the regular season.
While Pittsburgh (51-24-5) is locked into the No. 2 seed after winning the Metropolitan Division, the Flyers (41-30-9) had their sights set on the division's second automatic playoff berth until Thursday. The Rangers wrapped it up thanks to their win over Buffalo and Philadelphia's 4-2 defeat to Tampa Bay.
No East club has been better against the Penguins than Philadelphia, which has won all three meetings after losing the first. No other team has beaten Pittsburgh more than twice.
The Flyers are 5 for 13 with the man advantage in the season series despite the Penguins owning the league's second-best penalty kill (85.8 percent).
Philadelphia doesn't have one third-period goal against Pittsburgh this season, but that hasn't mattered partly because of its penalty killing. The Flyers have held the Penguins, owners of the league's top power play (23.7 percent), to 1 for 17 with the man advantage and had a short-handed goal in both matchups last month.
"They are aggressive," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma told the team's website. "We know they're coming, we know they're pressuring."
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