A pair of teams with nothing to play for are the only game on the NHL slate for Monday evening as the Chicago Blackhawks host the Philadelphia Flyers at the United Center.
These two teams met back on March 5 in Philadelphia — a city where the Blackhawks have not won a regular-season game since 1996 — and the game served as a harbinger of Chicago’s upcoming fortunes, with a 3-2 Chicago lead to start the third period disappearing in a 4-3 loss.
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That win for the Flyers was a brief respite amidst the sea of misery that has plagued the team since the calendar flipped to 2022.