Tippett scores twice, Flyers top Blue Jackets in OT to end skid at 7

PHILADELPHIA -- Owen Tippett scored his second goal of the game with 16 seconds left in overtime, and the Philadelphia Flyers ended a seven-game skid with a 4-3 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Wells Fargo Center on Tuesday.

Tippett took a pass from Ivan Provorov, skated through the slot, cut to the left and scored on a quick shot from in front.
"'Provy' made a great pass coming into the zone and ideally I was going back to him on my backhand, and it just opened up room to bring it back to my forehand and try to put it in there," Tippett said.
James van Riemsdyk scored his 300th NHL goal, Joel Farabee also scored and Provorov had two assists for Philadelphia (30-38-13), which went 0-6-1 in its previous seven games. Carter Hart made 28 saves.
Liam Foudy, Trey Fix-Wolansky and Sean Kuraly each scored for Columbus (24-47-9), which lost its fourth straight (0-3-1). Michael Hutchinson made 35 saves.

"We kept pushing all the way through there," Blue Jackets coach Brad Larsen said. "It was close."
Foudy gave Columbus a 1-0 lead at 9:47 of the first period when he knocked in the rebound of a shot by Carson Meyer.
Fix-Wolansky made it 2-0 at 12:43, taking advantage of a turnover by Flyers forward Noah Cates at the Philadelphia blue line and scoring from the left face-off circle. It was his first goal of the season.
"Feel like he was around the puck a lot," Larsen said of Fix-Wolansky. "It always helps when you score. He's been doing it at the [American Hockey League] level, but you get a goal there early, feels good. ... I just felt like he had some legs tonight."
Farabee cut it to 2-1 at 14:59 when his shot from the slot went between Hutchinson's pads.
Van Riemsdyk tied it 2-2 at 15:33 after taking a pass from Provorov and scoring his milestone goal from the right circle.
"Before the year [senior adviser] Dean Lombardi pulled me aside and was letting me know where I stood with some of those things, with career goals and milestones like that," van Riemsdyk said. "I knew it was within reach this year. Excited to get it here in Philly. A winning effort is always nice too."

Tippett gave Philadelphia a 3-2 lead after scoring a power-play goal 47 seconds into the third period. He poked a loose puck past Blue Jackets defenseman Andrew Peeke at the Columbus blue line, chased it into the left face-off circle, cut to the net and scored over Hutchinson's right shoulder.
Kuraly then tied it 3-3 at 5:50, redirecting
Jake Christiansen's
shot for a power-play goal.
Tippett, 24, is second on the Flyers with 26 goals in 76 games, which is more than the 18 goals he scored in his first 115 NHL games. Before the game, he was announced as the winner of the Pelle Lindbergh Award, given to Philadelphia's most improved player as voted by his teammates.
"I saw him in junior, I coached in the OHL [Ontario Hockey League] at that time, and he was a natural goal-scorer," Flyers assistant coach Rocky Thompson said. "But I think his game is evolving not just as a shooter, which we're seeing and that's coming, maturing, but I think he makes good plays too.
"He can be very hard to play against because of his speed. Not just when he has the puck, he can forecheck and take advantage of those attributes that he has. Definitely the offense has come. He's been put in a good situation this year to succeed, and I think he's taken advantage of those opportunities."
NOTES: Blue Jackets forward Boone Jenner took warmups but missed the game because of an upper-body injury. He is considered day to day. ... Meyer, who was recalled from Cleveland of the AHL on Tuesday, played his first NHL game since Jan. 10, and the assist was his first point since April 16, 2022. ... Flyers defenseman Adam Ginning, who was promoted from Lehigh Valley of the American Hockey League on Tuesday, had two hits and two blocked shots in 16:40 of ice time in his NHL debut. ... Thompson ran the bench for the Flyers, with coach John Tortorella observing.