Flyers can’t buy a win at home in March, lose 3-2 to the Blue Jackets

The Flyers had all the momentum in the world coming home from California. Three wins in four days, a perfect road trip, a team that looked like it was finally putting things together at exactly the right time of the season.

Then they walked back into Xfinity Mobile Arena on Tuesday night and lost to the Blue Jackets 3-2 and suddenly that momentum feels like a distant memory.

Now, it’s four losses in five home games in March.

The Flyers are averaging 1.80 goals per game at home this month and they have gone over two years without winning four games in a row.

For a brief moment, the road version of the Flyers appeared to be a genuine threat. None of that even matters if the home version keeps getting in its own way at the worst possible time.

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It’s the same story playing out on repeat in South Philly.

The Flyers got blanked by the Mammoth 3-0, blown out by the Rangers 6-2, and lost to these same Blue Jackets in a shootout just ten days ago.

Every time this team builds real momentum away from home they come back to Xfinity Mobile Arena and hand it right back, and at this point of the season there is simply no more runway to keep doing that.

What makes Tuesday especially brutal is that the rest of the league cooperated. Scores went Philadelphia’s way on a busy night around the league and the standings were right there for the taking.

Instead the Flyers sit five points back of the second wild card spot and six points back of third place in the Metropolitan Division with 12 games remaining. The window is getting smaller with every missed opportunity. Tuesday night was obviously a big miss.

The Blackhawks come to Xfinity Mobile Arena on Thursday at 7 PM ET on NBCSP.

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