COLUMBUS, Ohio _ Flyers' Brayden Schenn, frustrated by missing two golden chances earlier in the night, scored with 16.5 seconds left to tie the game and send it into overtime Sunday night.
But it just delayed a 2-1 overtime win for the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena.
After Schenn scored from the side of the net to tie it at 1, Columbus won it on Nick Foligno's goal from the high slot on an odd-man rush with 2:27 left in overtime.
The previous night, Columbus also allowed a goal with 16.5 seconds left, giving the New York Rangers a 5-4 win.
Earlier, there was a lot of controversy.
Two goals. Two coaches' challenges for goalie interference. Two decisions that went Columbus' way.
Those rulings from the NHL's Situation Room played a key role in the Blue Jackets' workmanlike win.
Former Flyer Sergei Bobrovsky, the NHL's player of the month in December, made 25 saves. Bobrovsky is 6-1 in his career against the Flyers and has a save percentage over .950 against them.
Flyers goalie Steve Mason played well, but the Flyers goalie fell to 3-4-3 against his former team.
Trailing 1-0, Schenn missed two great chances in front _ one midway through the second period, another early in the third. With an open net in front of him, he shot wide both times.
Columbus ended a two-game losing streak. Before that, the Blue Jackets had won 16 straight, the second-best streak in NHL history.
The Flyers, who play in Buffalo on Tuesday, have lost eight of their last 10 games.
Defenseman David Savard's second-period point drive went through traffic and got past Mason, giving the Jackets a 1-0 lead. Columbus' Josh Anderson appeared to make incidental contact with Mason's skate just before the goal was scored, causing coach Dave Hakstol to challenge the ruling.
Good goal, it was decided.
It marked the fifth straight game that the Flyers had allowed the first goal.
A little less than two minutes into the game, Andrew MacDonald's point shot was ruled a goal on the ice but, surprisingly, disallowed after a review in Toronto.
Just before the goal was scored, Flyers left winger Michael Raffl was skating in front and made incidental contact with Columbus defender Ryan Murray, who tapped into Bobrovsky.
The NHL's explanation for erasing the goal: "The referee determined Raffl's actions in bumping the defenseman into the goalie prevented Bobrovsky from doing his job in the crease."
The decision left Hakstol irate, but his protests fell on deaf ears.
Late in the first period, Foligno knocked the Flyers' Travis Konecny into the boards. Roman Lyubimov went after Foligno, and Ivan Provorov paired off with ex-Flyer Scott Hartnell. There was a lot of yelling, but no punches were thrown, and no penalties were called.
The first period ended scoreless. Considering that Columbus has been the NHL's best team in the opening period _ outscoring its opponents, 41-21 _ the Flyers weren't in bad shape.
But Savard's second goal of the season put Columbus in front with 12:52 left in the second.
Schenn, alone in front, had a golden chance to tie the game, but he fired over an empty net midway through the second period. Schenn looked up to the rafters, shaking his head in disbelief.
A few minutes later, Mason stopped Boone Jenner on a breakaway to keep the Flyers within 1-0.
Dave Hakstol scrambled his lines in the third period, but it didn't help as the Flyers had few quality scoring chances until Schenn struck.
