* Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov said that he regretted his actions in shoving linesman Ryan Daisy in the second period of Thursday's game. Provorov apologized to Daisy afterwards. After what he told interim head coach Scott Gordon was a sleepless night, Provorov called Daisy on Friday morning to speak with him and apologize more personally.

* Carter Hart is breaking in a new pair of pads. He said it generally takes about 4 or 5 practices with new pads before he'd be comfortable using them in a game. Hart's family, which was on hand for his first two NHL starts, returned to Alberta on Friday. Hart will get the start again on Saturday against Columbus.

* Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier took maintenance days. Jordan Weal and Jori Lehterä substituted in their respective spots in the lineup. Both Giroux and Couturier are available to play on Saturday. The forward lines and defense pairings were the same as the last two games.

The Flyers held a full practice on Friday morning at the Skate Zone in Voorhees in advance of hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday afternoon. Here are some notes and news from Friday's session.

* Over the last 12 games, dating back to the Black Friday game against the New York Rangers, the Flyers are on a 33-for-38 run (86.8 percent) on the penalty kill. Three of the goals against came in a single game in Winnipeg.

* Flyers forward Scott Laughton said that the team made one structural tweak on the penalty kill in Thursday's game against the Predators -- in which the team killed off six penalties successfully over the final 27 minutes of the game. The adjustment was based on something had Gordon with the Lehigh Valley Phantoms' PK (ranked 2nd in the AHL).

* Gordon said that the adjustment was something he presented as an idea to assistant coach Ian Laperriere, leaving it up to "Lappy" on whether to incorporate it into the approach against Nashville. Gordon noted that some adjustments are opponent-specific and that he has been impressed by the attention to planning and preparation that he has seen with Laperriere during their brief time working together.

GORDON: "We sit and we have conversations about the challenges each team brings. So as we sit and we talk, there's a situation that Nashville does that, as we're talking about what they're doing and how we're going to defend it, I said to Lappy 'This is what we did in Lehigh, but you make the decision. If you think the guys are going to be more comfortable doing what they're doing, then stick with it."

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* The Blue Jackets come into tomorrow's game having won two in-a-row and collecting points in four straight (3-0-1), with the last three games not only decided by one goal, but all low scoring games. Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella commented on that exact storyline:

TORTORELLA: "That's what we talked about before the games, was, don't get bored now because their 2-1 games, 3-2, 1-0. Don't get bored that you think we're a defensive team. We have certainly brought our concentration level to away from the puck, but we have 20-plus scoring chances each game that we've done here in the last five."

* After a slow start to the season, former Flyers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky has his game turned around, leading the team during their recent surge. He has stopped 106 of 110 shots in that time frame for a save percentage of .964.

BOBROVSKY: "It's not only me, it's the team. I think the team improved a lot in front of me. It (trickles) down to me too and my result and my numbers get better too. I think we win as a team, we lose as a team."