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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (0-1-1) will try for an encore of Monday night’s rousing win over the Florida Panthers. The team plays its second of a stretch of nine home games in the next 10 matches. The opponent: Scott Arniel’s Winnipeg Jets (2-1-0). Here’s the 411 to get you set for the game.
Time and broadcast: 7:00 p.m. EDT on NBCSP
Listen online: FlyersRadio 24/7
PhiladelphiaFlyers.com keys to the game for Philadelphia: click here after 11 a.m. ET
Thursday practice report: Click here
The team made two roster moves on Wednesday. The club activated Cam York from Injured Reseve. Corresponding, the team loaned defenseman Emil Andrae to the Lehigh Valley Phantoms. .
Flyers Projected Starting Lineup
Travis Konecny – Sean Couturier – Matvei Michkov
Trevor Zegras – Christian Dvorak– Owen TIppett
Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink
Nikita Grebenkin – Jett Luchanko – Garnet Hathaway
Cam York– Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler – Jamie Drysdale
Adam Ginning – Noah Juulsen
Samuel Ersson
[Dan Vladar]
PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Couturier, Konecny. Mickkov
PP2: Sanheim. Foerster, Cates, Brink, Zegras
Scratches: Rodrigo Abols (healthy), Nicolas Deslauriers (healthy), Egor Zamula (healthy).
Snow the Goalie
Anthony SanFilippo, Russ Joy and Chris Therien recorded Wednesday’s episode of Snow the Goalie on location from the Chickie’s and Pete’s in Malvern. They took live calls including one from “Super Fan” Eric Rothstein and discussed a wide array of current Flyers topics. Topics include Sean Couturier’s revival, the Dvorak/Zegras hybrid at center and left wing, Michkov’s slow start, Jett Luchanko”s CHL/NHL dilemma, and more.
Let’s Go Flyers
Bill
I’m really starting to feel as though the mishandling of Cutter is going to haunt us in a few ways:
1. Had the Flyers played hardball with Cutter and given him the choice to sign or return to college (and risk getting hurt and not burning 2 years off his entry level contract) I think the kid would have ultimately signed. They would have had to mend fences, but the kid would have been signed.
2. He signs, there’s no Drysdale deal. If Drysdale isn’t here, the Flyers don’t have to worry about too many smallish dmen and can draft Zeev.
3. I think the combination of Zeev and Cutter is FAR superior to Jamie and Jett. Already Zeev is a better PP quarterback than Drysdale. Not sure how Jett will ultimately stack up offensively vs Cutter (and Jett plays a premium position) but I’m guessing Cutter has more offensive upside (far better shot).
4. Unfortunately it just reeks of bad management on the Flyers part.
It’s a bit of old news but as we see Cutter and Zeev start to blossom it will just make these poor decisions more costly.
Thanks for the work you do!