The Philadelphia Flyers face another Canadian team for their second game of a back-to-back. A loss against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night and now, facing the NHL-worst Calgary Flames. Maybe, there’s some hope to bounce back quickly.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m.
How to watch/listen:
📺: NBCSP+
📻: 97.5 The Fanatic
Pregame reading
- Alex Bump might just have five points in his first 10 AHL games this season, but he’s making an impact to the overall team’s offense in a different way. He’s maybe the most confident player in the entire Flyers organization. [BSH]
- Some Flyers are certainly on their way, but what players could finish the season with at least 20 goals scored? We look at nine total to varying levels of certainty. [BSH]
- Everything you need to know about the result on Saturday night against the Maple Leafs. Just a stop-and-start game if we’ve ever seen one. [BSH]
Pregame watching
Projected lineups
Philadelphia Flyers
Owen Tippett – Trevor Zegras – Matvei Michkov
Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink
Nikita Grebenkin – Christian Dvorak – Travis Konecny
Rodrigo Abols – Jacob Gaucher – Garnet Hathaway
Cam York – Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler – Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula – Noah Juulsen
Dan Vladar?
(Aleksei Kolosov??)
Calgary Flames
Jonathan Huberdeau — Nazem Kadri — Connor Zary
Samuel Honzek — Mikael Backlund — Blake Coleman
Joel Farabee — Morgan Frost — Matt Coronato
Ryan Lomberg — Yegor Sharangovich — Adam Klapka
Joel Hanley — Mackenzie Weegar
Kevin Bahl — Rasmus Andersson
Jake Bean — Zayne Parekh
Dustin Wolf
(Devin Cooley)
Storylines to watch
The return of Morgan and Joel
Frost and Farabee already had their first return to Philadelphia shortly after they were traded in the middle of last season to Calgary, but now it comes at an awkward time for both teams. The Flames are clearly on a massive descent — those two young forwards joining their squad seemed to be a move that general manager Craig Conroy wanted to make to avoid them completely bottoming out; to try and do a quasi retool on the fly. But, it’s doing them no good.
Meanwhile, the Flyers are using the roster spots and cap space that the trade gave them to good use, giving players like Tyson Foerster and Bobby Brink more room to shine. Oh, and Trevor Zegras is a good addition too.
Can Michkov take advantage?
There are some players on the Flyers roster that could certainly use a little jolt to their production and have a sort of “breakout game” so to speak. But no one even holds a candle to how badly Matvei Michkov needs one of those nights.
If Michkov can use the league-worst opponent to his advantage, then maybe this is the true start to him re-finding his confidence and tearing the entire NHL apart for the next month or so. Or, because he just played last night, there is going to be even more fatigue on the body and he won’t be able to truly make the most of the opportunity.
