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The Flyers get Columbus at home before a fast turn to Washington
Philadelphia opens a back-to-back Tuesday night with a Halloween home game, then heads straight into a nationally televised division test.
October 27, 2026 · I AM 215 JAWN
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The Flyers host Columbus at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the first half of a back-to-back. The home date carries the club's Peanuts Halloween theme, but the hockey consequence is the more important part: Philadelphia has almost no recovery time before Wednesday night's division game in Washington.
That compression changes the value of every clean line change and every minute the Flyers can keep off their most heavily used players. A home game against Columbus is not isolated from the next night; it sets the physical and tactical conditions for it.
The club's official schedule lists Wednesday's Capitals game for 7:30 p.m. on TNT, truTV and HBO Max. This is the kind of two-night sequence that tests depth before the season has room to settle.