The Philadelphia Flyers are back, again! After restarting their season in Washington Wednesday night (and losing) the Flyers are now in New York City to face a Rangers team with an actually worse record. It’s going to be a, well, a game.
Puck drop: 8:00 p.m.
How to watch/listen:
📺: ESPN
📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
- The Flyers have five games to play before the NHL trade deadline next Friday. What will those games tell us as to how general manager Danny Briere could approach any transactions? [BSH]
- In case you missed Wednesday’s game, we have you covered with all the important takeaways as the Flyers returned to action from the Olympic break. [BSH]
Pregame watching
By the numbers
Philadelphia Flyers – 25-20-11 (6th in Metro)
Goals: Travis Konecny (23)
Assists: Travis Konecny (32)
Points: Travis Konecny (54)
New York Rangers– 22-26-6 (8th in Metro)
Goals: Mika Zibanejad (23)
Assists: Artemi Panarin (38)
Points: Artemi Panarin (57)
Projected lineups
Trevor Zegras — Christian Dvorak — Travis Konecny
Denver Barkey — Sean Couturier — Owen Tippett
Matvei Michkov — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Nikita Grebenkin — Carl Grundstrom — Garnet Hathaway
Travis Sanheim — Rasmus Ristolainen
Cam York — Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler — Noah Juulsen
Sam
Gabe Perreault — Mika Zibanejad — J.T. Miller
Will Cuylle — Vincent Trocheck — Alexis Lafreniere
Conor Sheary — Noah Laba — Taylor Raddysh
Adam Edstrom — Sam Carrick — Brennan Othmann
Vladislav Gavrikov — Adam Fox
Braden Schneider — Will Borgen
Matthew Robertson — Vincent Iorio
Igor Shesterkin
(Jonathan Quick)
Storylines to watch
How will the Flyers bounce back?
The Philadelphia Flyers experienced a whole lot of misery on their return to the ice Wednesday night. Now less than 24 hours later and after a trip up to The Big Apple, they have to face a similarly positioned team in the Rangers. It’s an opportunity to maybe get some more offensive juice going — but they will need to rebound quickly and after taking more than two weeks off of hockey, that’s probably a tough ask.
Meanwhile, the Rangers are playing their first game back from the break so they will be full of piss and vinegar as they attempt to save their season.
Who will do some scoring?
Not to harp on this team too much, but, like, in the first game after taking some time off, and not even having important Olympians on your team, you are able to score just one goal? And it comes from Noah Cates? Where were the players who are actually on the team to score goals? Matvei Michkov led all forwards in shots last night, and with just two.
Against the Rangers, hopefully there is some sign of offensive life. Maybe. Or, maybe they’ll just tank the rest of the season for a better outcome.
