Panarin's OT goal lifts Jackets over Flyers

COLUMBUS

Artemi Panarin and Seth Jones were gassed, unable to get off the ice during overtime after weathering a push by Philadelphia that ended with a slick save from Sergei Bobrovsky.

Panarin didn’t look fatigued. He turned on the speed, broke to the left wing past Claude Giroux and slid a cross-ice pass to Jones, who tapped it in to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night.

“He just put it on tee for me and gave me a wide-open net,” said Jones, who got his third overtime goal this season and set a franchise record with the seventh of his Blue Jackets career.

The goal 4:27 into overtime enabled the Blue Jackets to rebound from a loss Tuesday night to Pittsburgh and hop over the idle Penguins and Carolina Hurricanes into third place in the Metropolitan Division.

Panarin also scored in the second period, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Scott Harrington each had goals, and Bobrovsky made 28 saves.

Travis Sanheim had two goals, Jakub Voracek also scored and Elliott had 36 saves as his two-game winning streak came to an end. Elliott is the seventh goalie used by Philadelphia this season, and the Flyers will set an NHL record when recently acquired Cam Talbot starts Saturday at New Jersey to raise that number to eight.