With 25 games left in the season, the stretch run for the Flyers is more about getting a better idea of what their roster has to offer.

Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier each had a goal and two assists, Owen Tippett scored a pair of goals and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-3 on Saturday.

Skinner made 26 saves in a 6-3 loss to the Flyers on Saturday. He allowed five goals. Philly's second line of Owen Tippett, Matvei Michkov and Sean Couturier were Skinner's kryponite Saturday -- they tallied eight points (four goals,

Tippett (upper body) scored two goals in 6-3 victory over the Oilers on Saturday. Tippett hadn't played since Jan. 29, missing five games. His line with Sean Couturier (one goal, two assists) and Matvei Michkov (one goal,

The Flyers got two straight wins by a combined 12 goals and having outshot their opponents by a margin of 70-42. At the start of February, they had limped into the month banged up, on a run of three straight shutout losses, and losses in seven of their last eight until they salvaged a 3-2 win over the Penguins and finally got a rest.

Coming out of the nearly two-week break for the NHL’s 4 Nations Face-Off exhibition tournament, the Pittsburgh Penguins had nothing but games that could be categorized as “must wins” on their remaining regular-season schedule if they were to mount anything resembling a push for the postseason.

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