Flyers game matters, but not to Jets

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The Winnipeg Jets are going to find playoff meaning in all of their remaining games, starting Monday in Philadelphia against the Flyers (6 p.m., TSN3, TSN1290).

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Ondrej Pavelec will be in the net against Philadelphia. — WAYNE GLOWACKI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS FILES Ondrej Pavelec will be in the net against Philadelphia.

There are no playoff implications for the Jets – anyone still clinging to the fantasy had to officially let it go after Saturday’s loss in Buffalo – the rest of the way, with a mark of 31-38-6, last in the Central Division.

The Flyers, meanwhile, are in a neck-and-neck fight for the Eastern Conference’s final wild-card spot at the moment.

Philly has 85 points, same as the Detroit Red Wings, in the battle for that final spot. The Flyers have played one fewer game than the Wings, but potentially more important is that Detroit currently holds the tie-breaker with one more regulation and overtime win.

Those teams are four back of the New York Islanders, who had the first wild-card spot Monday with 89 points.

Winnipeg has seven games left. The Jets return home for a final three-game stand at the MTS Centre starting Wednesday against Ottawa, then meet Chicago Friday and Minnesota Sunday.

The Sens are on the very fringe of the Eastern conversation at 77 points, but both Chicago and Minnesota are playoff teams as of Monday.

It looks like Ondrej Pavelec will be in goal for the Jets, while the Flyers will be happy that captain Claude Giroux said earlier Monday that he’ll play.

Giroux was knocked into the boards by Arizona’s Martin Hanzal on Saturday night and didn’t play the final couple of minutes of that 2-1 loss.