The Philadelphia Flyers are back home and now facing the archrival Pittsburgh Penguins. Both teams are hypercompetitive and in the playoff hunt, performing better than expected — so this might truly be the first Flyers-Penguins game that feels like a Flyers-Penguins game in quite a while.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m.
How to watch/listen:
📺: NBCSP
📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
- Rick Tocchet coaches the Philadelphia Flyers. Rick Tocchet used to coach the Vancouver Canucks. The Vancouver Canucks are not good. The Vancouver Canucks are going to trade away a lot of their veteran players. So, the Flyers have been named as a team to watch who might take advantage of that. [BSH]
- Three stats to look out for when it comes to whether or not the Flyers will continue being in the playoff hunt of regress to being a mediocre mushy middle team. [BSH]
- Flyers 3 Stars of the Week! Dan Vladar is obviously one, but who else? Who else impressed enough to earn the honors? [BSH]
Pregame watching
By the numbers
Philadelphia Flyers – 14-7-3 (4th in Metro)
Goals: Tyson Foerster/Trevor Zegras (9)
Assists: Trevor Zegras (15)
Points: Trevor Zegras (24)
Pittsburgh Penguins – 12-7-5 (5th in Metro)
Goals: Sidney Crosby (16)
Assists: Evgeni Malkin (18)
Points: Sidney Crosby (27)
Projected lineups
Philadelphia Flyers
Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Travis Konecny
Matvei Michkov – Sean Couturier – Bobby Brink
Trevor Zegras – Christian Dvorak – Owen Tippett
Nikita Grebenkin – Rodrigo Abols – Garnet Hathaway
Cam York – Travis Sanheim
Emil Andrae – Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler – *Noah Juulsen
Dan Vladar
(Sam Ersson)
Pittsburgh Penguins
Kevin Hayes — Sidney Crosby — Bryan Rust
Tommy Novak — Evgeni Malkin — Anthony Mantha
Ruther McGroarty — Ben Kindel — Vile Koivunen
Connor Dewar — Blake Lizotte — Boko Imama
Parker Wotherspoon — Erik Karlsson
Ryan Shea — Kris Letang
Ryan Graves — Connor Clifton
Tristan Jarry
(Arturs Silovs)