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DETROIT -- The Philadelphia Flyers are on an eight-game winning streak going into Sundays game against the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena.The Flyers are 17-10-3 after beating the Dallas Stars 4-2 at home on Saturday afternoon. The Red Wings are 13-12-3 after a 4-1 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets Friday night at Joe Louis Arena.Brayden Schenn recorded his second career hat trick -- all on the power play -- for Philadelphia on Saturday.Look whos up top, Schenn said, crediting Jakub Voracek, captain Claude Giroux and defensemen Shayne Gostisbehere and Mark Streit for setting up his goals. Those (guys) make it happen up top and me and (Wayne Simmonds) find the garbage or the rebounds or the tips.Steve Mason made 21 saves for Philadelphia, which has won eight straight for the first time since Jan. 6-19, 2002.Voracek added an empty-net goal. He has four goals and 15 points during the eight-game winning streak.Schenn talked about his performance as it relates to the teams winning streak.Its always nice scoring goals and stuff like that, he said. When it comes in a winning effort, coming from behind again, its nice and helped keep the streak going.Gostisbehere said his right hand was OK after getting hit by defenseman Jordie Benns shot at 7:58 of the second period. He didnt play in the final 4:54 of the third period and said he had X-rays, which were precautionary.Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said his team has to create more traffic around the opponents net.We have to be a team that plays up the ice as fast as we can, Blashill told www.mlive.com. Were becoming a better O-zone team, so if we get pucks behind people and play in the other teams end we have a better chance to produce more offense.We have to be more determined to get to the net and put pucks to the net. I still think we pass up shots to try to make plays and we just have to understand that its going to be lots of shots.Gustav Nyquist and Riley Sheahan, in particular, have been struggling around the net. Nyquist has just one goal in the past 22 games and Sheahan hasnt scored a goal this season in 28 contests.The Red Wings and Flyers split a pair of games in Philadelphia six days apart in early November -- the Flyers won 4-3 in overtime on Nov. 2, and the Red Wings won 3-2 in a shootout, snapping a 12-game regular-season losing streak in Philadelphia that dated back to 1997.This will be the second of a season-long five game homestand for Detroit.The Red Wings are 2-7-2 in their past 11 at Joe Louis Arena and 6-7-2 for the season.Weve got to establish a little better home ice here, Thomas Vanek said. Were struggling on home ice. Weve just got to get some momentum early, get the fans behind us and keep that momentum going.Cheap Jerseys For Sale . 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I might not end up agreeing, but Id hear you out.The 10-2 Oakland Raiders currently hold the top seed in the AFC playoff picture, but they wont even be in first place in the division if they lose Thursday night to the 9-3 Kansas City Chiefs. You might remember the 8-4, third-place Denver Broncos from such films as Crushing Cam Newtons Spirit in the Super Bowl (presented by Papa Johns). And the 5-7 San Diego Chargers are the best last-place team in the league.Every team in the AFC West has a positive point differential this season. They are a combined 25-9 against teams outside of their division and boast a total combined record of 32-16 -- a .667 winning percentage.Which means theres a chance this could end up being the best division of all time. Or at least since the league went to eight divisions in 2002.Since that time, no division has finished a season with a .667 winning percentage. The closest were the 2013 NFC West and the 2007 AFC South, each of which went 42-22 (.656). If this years AFC West teams dont lose any more games to nondivision opponents, they would end up with a combined record of 43-21 -- and a .672 winning percentage.Also since 2002, only two divisions have had all four teams finish with positive point differentials -- the 2008 NFC South and the 2007 NFC East. Those divisions both went a combined 40-24. The 2008 South had a combined point differential of plus-259, while the 2007 East was plus-212. The 2016 AFC West is currently at plus-157 with a quarter of its season left to play.(We must also acknowledge the 2016 NFC East, which is a combined 30-17-1 and has four teams with positive point differentials. But the best the East can do, if its teams only lose to each other the rest of the way, is 41 wins. Two of its teams have single-digit point differentials, and it would be hard to argue at this point that the second-place Giants are better than any of the top three teams in the AFC West, right?)Thursday night should be a blast, because it has two of the best teams in the league playing in prime time in a game that could help decide the champion of one of the most competitive divisions ever. So watch Raiders-Chiefs, but remember: Its not likely to be the last you see of the teams from the AFC West.Heres a look at some other stuff we learned (and maybe didnt learn) in Week 13:The New York Giants offense is brokenThis we did not see coming. There was no way to know how the new additions would play on defense (theyve all played great) or how Ben McAdoo would handle the responsibilities of head coaching for the first time at any level. But one thing on which we all agreed before the season was that the Giants offense would continue to hum as it had during McAdoos two seasons as itts coordinator.dddddddddddd It has not.The Giants rank 26th in yards per game and 23rd in points per game. Only six teams in the league have run fewer offensive plays. Only five have fewer first downs. Only the Jets, Panthers, Jaguars and Chargers have turned the ball over more.McAdoo said after Sundays loss in Pittsburgh that the offenses problem was consistency, which is a coachs news-conference buzzword but doesnt really address the problem of a team that has played 12 games with a healthy Eli Manning and Odell Beckham Jr. and ranks near the bottom of the league in every offensive category. They cant run the ball, and the offensive line is a mess; but those things were true in 2014 and 2015 too, and those offenses worked better than this one. Put Whats wrong with the Giants offense on the list of things we didnt learn in Week 13. And if youre a Giants fan, hope it switches to the other list sometime real soon.We are underappreciating the Broncos secondaryI keep hearing, The Cowboys offensive line is the MVP of the league, which of course makes no sense, because the MVP is an individual award and the Cowboys offensive line is a collection of five people. But lets pretend for a second there was an award called Most Valuable Collection of Players Working Together at Shared and Similar Jobs. Sure, youd look at the Cowboys line. But how about the Broncos defensive backs?According to Pro Football Focus, Broncos cornerbacks Bradley Roby, Chris Harris Jr. and Aqib Talib allowed a total of six catches for 57 yards and no touchdowns on 20 targets against Jacksonville on Sunday. They had two interceptions. Safeties T.J. Ward and Darian Stewart have played like stars all season, and the defense is carrying an offense that ranks 27th in yards per game. The Denver secondary deserves MVCPWTSSJ consideration.Ron Riveras dress code is no jokeThere arent many NFL players who think more about their clothes than Cam Newton does, so his explanation that the weeklong stay on the West Coast threw off his wardrobe planning seemed weird. But so did the idea of sitting Newton for a series (instead of fining him)?because of a dress code violation. Everything went right in Carolina last season, and everything seems to have gone wrong this season. How they bounce back from all of this in 2017 will tell us more about Rivera, Newton and the Panthers than their follow-up to last seasons magical run has.The Super Bowl still could be Patriots-Seahawks, but it wont be easyEarl Thomas broke his leg on Sunday night. Rob Gronkowski had back surgery last week. Each is irreplaceable. Without Thomas, the Seahawks will have to adjust the way they play defense, and without Gronk, the Patriots will have to adjust the way they play offense. These are two of the best coaching staffs in the league, and they are eminently capable of making said adjustments. But the Patriots offense didnt look real exciting against the Rams on Sunday, and Seattle is not the same team on the road as it was Sunday night at home against the Carolina Haberdashers. It will be a tough road ahead for each popular conference favorite. ' ' '