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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (31-23-12) visit Joel Quenneville’s Anaheim Ducks (37-27-3) on Wednesday evening. The match marks the start of a stretch of three games in less than four nights for the Flyers.
This is the second and final meeting of the season series between the teams. Back on January 6, the Flyers hit the mathematical midpoint of the 2025-26 season — game 41, with a 22-12-7 record — as they skated to a feisty and emotional 5-2 home win over the Ducks. Seeing a winless streak grow to seven games (0-6-1), Anaheim fell to 21-19-3 for the season at that point.
Since that time, the Ducks have gone 16-8-0. The Flyers have posted a 9-11-5 mark. However, coming into the current road trip, Philly is 6-3-1 since the Olympic break. The Ducks have gone 7-5-0 since the Olympics.
Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar (21-11-7, 2.46 GAA, .905 save percentage) and Ducks counterpart Lukas Dostal (27-15-2, 3.06 GAA, .891 SV%) were teammates on the 2026 Czech Olympic team in Milan. Vladar started one game and backed up Dostal in the others, with Utah’s Karel Vejmelka serving as the team’s third goalie. Wednesday’s game offers the possibility of a Czech vs. Czech matchup in net.
Anaheim scores a lot of goals but they give up even more despite sitting in first place in the Pacific Division. It’s rare for a team with a negative goal disparity to be in first place this late in a season. To date, Anaheim has scored 215 goals (3.21 goals per game, 14th in the NHL) but yielded 233 (3.48 team goals against average, 29th in the NHL).
Meanwhile, Wednesday’s game is a rematch of the emotional — and downright dirty — game the Flyers played against Anaheim in Phillu on January 6. The Flyers, spurred by two Trevor Zegras goals in his first game against his former team, won by a 5-2 score.
Where to watch
Time and broadcast: 10:00 p.m. EDT on NBCSP
Listen online: FlyersRadio 24/7
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Leading scorers: Flyers (through 66 games)
Travis Konecny — 58 points (24g, 34a) in 62 games
Trevor Zegras — 54 points (22g, 32a)
Owen Tippett — 40 points (22g, 18a)
Christian Dvorak — 39 points (13g, 26a)
Noah Cates — 34 points (12g, 22a)
Matvei Michkov — 33 points (16g, 17a)
Sean Couturier — 29 points (7g, 22a)
Travis Sanheim — 28 points (6g, 22a)
Jamie Drysdale — 27 points (7g, 20a)
Cam York — 24 points (4g, 20a) in 59 games
Nikita Grebenkin — 14 points (4g, 10a) in 52 games
Goaltender stats
Dan Vladar — 41 GP, 21-11-7, 2.46 GAA, .905 SV%
Samuel Ersson — 27 GP, 10-10-5, 3.30 GAA, .863 SV%
Aleksei Kolosov — 4 GP, 0-2-0, 4.00 GAA, .830 SV%
Projected Flyers Lineup
The Flyers will not hold morning skate at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Projected lines are based on Tuesday’s practice. Also, at Tuesday’s practice, the Flyers tweaked their power play personnel. Unit One had Jamie Drysdale, Christian Dvorak, Owen Tippett, Travis Konecny, and Trevor Zegras. The second unit featured Rasmus Ristolainen, Noah Cates, Denver Barkey, Alex Bump and Matvei Michkov.
Alex Bump – Christian Dvorak – Travis Konecny
Nikita Grebenkin – Trevor Zegras – Owen Tippett
Denver Barkey – Noah Cates – Matvei Michkov
Carl Grundström – Sean Couturier – Luke Glendening
Travis Sanheim – Rasmus Ristolainen
Cam York – Jamie Drysdale
Nick Seeler – Emil Andrae
Dan Vladar
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Projected scratches: Garnet Hathaway (healthy), Garrett Wilson (healthy), Noah Juulsen (healthy).
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