It’s here. The last game we’ll be watching of this dang Philadelphia Flyers team for a whole 20 days. Should we try to savor it? Maybe take in every single minute so that we can keep it in our heads until they return on Feb. 25? Maybe. Or, we could just get through it as fast as possible so we can relax for a little bit. They’re facing Claude Giroux and his Ottawa Senators, by the way.
Puck drop: 7:00 p.m.
How to watch/listen:
📺: NBCSP
📻: 93.3 WMMR
Pregame reading
- Despite being just one of two players from Canada’s 4 Nations Face-Off team not heading to the Olympics, and playing on a team not on a playoff trajectory, Travis Konecny has remained a consistent force. [BSH]
- Yesterday marked 1,000 days since the Flyers hired Danny Briere as general manager. Let’s break down exactly what he’s done. [BSH]
Pregame watching
By the numbers
Philadelphia Flyers – 25-20-10 (6th in Metro)
Goals: Travis Konecny (22)
Assists: Travis Konecny (32)
Points: Travis Konecny (54)
Ottawa Senators – 27-22-7 (8th in Atlantic)
Goals: Tim Stutzle (27)
Assists: Jake Sanderson (35)
Points: Tim Stutzle (60)
Projected lineups
Nikita Grebenkin — Christian Dvorak — Travis Konecny
Denver Barkey — Trevor Zegras — Owen Tippett
Matvei Michkov — Noah Cates — Bobby Brink
Garnet Hathaway — Sean Couturier — Carl Grundstrom
Travis Sanheim — Rasmus Ristolainen
Cam York — Jamie Drydale
Nick Seeler — Noah Juulsen
Dan Vladar
(Aleksei Kolosov)
Drake Batherson — Tim Stutzle — Claude Giroux
Brady Tkachuk — Dylan Cozens — Ridly Greig
Nick Cousins — Shane Pinto — Michael Amadio
Stephen Halliday — Lars Eller — Fabian Zetterlund
Jake Sanderson — Artem Zub
Thomas Chabot — Nick Jensen
Tyler Kleven — Jordan Spence
Linus Ullmark
(James Reimer)
Storylines to watch
Last game before Olympic break for everyone
It’s finally here. The last game we’ll see the Flyers play for a couple of weeks and it involves a whole lot of Olympians. Of course, the ones we know in Travis Sanheim, Dan Vladar, and Rasmus Ristolainen; but on the other side of the ice there are some high-end players who might just be trying to save themselves for Milan. Do we think Brady Tkachuk and Jake Sanderson might not go all-out in a game in Philadelphia before trying to win gold for Team USA? Maybe. Or maybe Tim Stutzle will try to monitor his efforts before he becomes Germany’s second weapon next to Leon Draisaitl next week? No one knows, but it might at least play a part.
Bye bye Flyers, for 20 whole days.
Claude Giroux’s return, of course
It might be getting a little stale and him being on this team is more of a distant memory than we would like, but Claude Giroux is returning to Philadelphia once again. It is now his sixth game facing the Flyers as part of the visiting team, all with the Senators, and he has certainly been a productive forward during those reunions. From earning three assists in his first game back since the trade in 2022 that sent him to the Florida Panthers, to earning a tidy single assist in the game earlier this season, Giroux has never been left off the score sheet whenever he has come back to Philadelphia. With a total of one goal and eight points in the five games, he certainly likes being back in the building.
