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Today’s game begins at 1:00 p.m. ET and can be:
- Seen on TV locally via NBC Sports Philadelphia (or via stream on the MyTeams App)
- Seen on TV in Buffalo via MSG-B
- Seen on TV in Canada via Sportsnet
- Heard on radio locally via 97.5 The Fanatic
- Seen or heard elsewhere via Sirius XM, NHL.tv, and NHL Center Ice
We’ve got some late-breaking news from the Flyers on the injury front today, as Sean Couturier will miss today’s game because of a lower-body injury that has him “day-to-day”. We’ll see how long that ultimately ends up being, but this previously-unannounced injury does help explain Phil Varone’s call-up on Friday.
According to Sam Carchidi, Jordan Weal will draw back into the lineup while the aforementioned Varone is a scratch:
Weal is in the lineup; Hak won’t say where ... or who will be top-line C. Stolie in goal for 4th straight game. Varone not playing. Coots injured vs. CBJ. #Flyers
— Sam Carchidi (@BroadStBull) December 8, 2018
Which way the Flyers choose to go with the specific lines sans-Couturier is unclear; the below is a guess until we get further information.
Projected Flyers lineup:
Forwards
van Riemsdyk - Giroux - Konecny
Voracek - Patrick - Simmonds
Raffl - Laughton - Weise
Lindblom - Lehtera - Weal
Defensemen
Provorov - Gostisbehere
Hagg - MacDonald
Sanheim - Gudas
Goalies
Stolarz
(Neuvirth)
Projected Sabres lineup (via):
Forwards
Skinner - Eichel - Reinhart
Sheary - Mittelstadt - Pominville
Sobotka - Rodrigues - Okposo
Thompson - Larsson - Berglund
Defensemen
Dahlin - Bogosian
Pilut - Ristolainen
Beaulieu - Tennyson
Goalies
Ullmark
(Hutton)