The Philadelphia Flyers host the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night with a lot on the line and little room left in the regular season. A Flyers win at Xfinity Mobile Arena would clinch third place in the Metropolitan Division and send Philadelphia into the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal round against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Puck drop is set for 7:00 p.m. EDT, with the game on NBCSP. The Flyers enter at 41-27-12 with 94 points and 26 regulation wins, and they are coming off a 7-1 road win against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday evening. Carolina arrives at 52-22-6, already has first place in the division sealed, and needs one point to clinch the Eastern Conference regular season championship.
Monday is the Flyers’ penultimate game of the 2025-26 regular season, which gives the night a direct impact beyond the standings. Philadelphia has not made the playoffs since the pandemic-altered 2019-20 season, and entering this year it had matched an unwanted team record with five straight seasons out of the postseason. A win would end that uncertainty immediately and set up a first-round meeting with Pittsburgh.
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The matchup also carries the weight of recent history. The Flyers have gone 1-9-7 in their last 17 games against the Hurricanes dating back to November 26, 2021, and their last victory over Carolina came on November 15, 2023, when they won 3-1 on the road. Since then, Philadelphia is 0-4-4 in eight meetings with the Hurricanes, a run that underlines how difficult this opponent has been to handle.
Carolina comes in on a three-game winning streak and has been strong away from home all season with a 23-12-4 road record. The Flyers have been better at home than they have been against this opponent lately, posting an 18-13-8 record at Xfinity Mobile Arena and a 23-14-4 road mark overall.
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The Hurricanes are also playing the front end of a back-to-back, with a regular-season finish in Elmont on Tuesday against the New York Islanders. For Philadelphia, the opportunity is simpler and more immediate: win once, and the postseason begins in a first-round series against a familiar rival. Lose, and the wait for the bracket continues for at least one more night.
The stakes are clear because the calendar is nearly gone. The Flyers have one chance on Monday to turn a late-season surge into a playoff berth, and the Hurricanes are one point away from locking down the conference's top regular-season mark.
