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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (3-8-4) practiced on Friday at the FTC in Voorhees. The team had an off-day on Thursday after suffering back-to-back divisional game losses the previous two days to the Columbus Blue Jackets (4-3 OT) and the Washington Capitals (5-2).
The Flyers return to action on Sunday at Xfinity Mobile Arena. They host that Utah Mammoth at 4:00 p.m. EST.
Reminder: Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday at 2 a.m. ET. Additonally, there was a time change for Sunday’s match. The game was originally scheduled for 7:00 p.m. EST.
Saturday practice schedule
The Flyers will practice at the FTC on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. EDT. By the end of the day, there should be a little clearer picture on how Sunday’s lineup may look.
TK, Tippett return to practice
Travis Konecny (no-contact jersey) and Owen Tippett returned to practice on Friday. Both players remain on Injured Reserve. However, both appear close to being ready to return to game action.
Konecny has missed 10 games with a lower body injury. Tippett has been out for the last six matches.
Additionally, Noel Acciari (upper body) missed Friday’s practice. He left the ice under his power on Wednesday after awkward contact with Washington’s Martin Fehervary. However, he returned to the game.
Friday: Practice Lines
Trevor Zegras – Christian Dvorak — Travis Konecny/ Cole Knuble
Porter Martone – Noah Cates – Matvei Michkov
Alex Bump – Sean Couturier – Tyson Foerster
Michael Bunting – Denver Barkey – Owen Tippett
Travis Sanheim — Jamie Drysdale
Cam York – Nick Seeler
Hunter McDonald – Oliver Bonk
Simon Benoit – David Jiricek
Joseph Woll
Dan Vladar
Flyers Injury Report — Official through Oct. 29, 2026
The Flyers are riddled with injuries at present. Following is the known list and their current availability status.
- Owen Tippett (upper body) — IR, returned to practice on October 30
- Travis Konecny (knee) — IR, returned to practice on October 30
- Rasmus Ristolainen (hand) — IR, reinjured in Oct. 24 game, out at least two weeks from then
- Nikita Grebenkin (back surgery) — sidelined at least four months from October
Vladar exits during practice
Flyers goaltender Dan Vladar left the ice midway through practice on Friday. I did not attend Friday’s practice, and there was no official update on his status, However, it appeared to be a potential equipment issue with the strap on his pad. That’s the best case scenario. The worst case scenario would bea
Team Toyota Flyers Spotlight: The dreaded s- word
Flyers captain Sean Couturier directed some pointed comments at the team after Wednesday’s game in Washington. He even evoked the dreaded s-word — soft — to describe the team’s play over much of the first four weeks of the 2026-27 season. That’s not a word that tossed around lightly.
Veteran defenseman Nick Seeler added that the team cannot afford a “Me, me, me” mentality where players focus more on their own stats than the overall details it takes for teams to win hockey games.
During his own postgame media Availability on Wednesday, Tocchet said that Couturer and Seeler are “not wrong” in their assessments. Without naming names, Tocchet also made reference to players overstaying shifts; an apparent reference to the pair of 2-on-0 breakaways the Flyers allowed to the Columbus Blue Jackets in overtime on Tuesday night. Matvei Michkov — and Cam York — were both culpable during the disastrous shift. However, Michkov was the one who decided not to change when he had the opportunity.
Predictably, the situation — Tocchet’s commentary specifically — touched off outrage from those on (anti)social media. After Tuesday’s game, Tocchet called out Trevor Zegras by name as one of the players he laced into during a pointed address to the team during the first intermission. Zegras responded with a strong performance the rest of the way, along with the rest of the team.
In fairness, however, making Michkov’s OT gaffes — turnover, overstayed shift — the focal point was an odd choice by Tocchet. The coach had every reason to be displeased with that shift. Nevertheless, Michov has been the least of the team’s on-ice headaches so far. It was an awful shift at an awful time, following a three-goal comeback. No more and no less.
On Friday, the Flyers held a pre-practice team meeting. Afterwards, Tocchet attempted some damage control about the “soft” critique and the team’s wavering “compete” levels on the ice. He also stressed That the locker room unity that characterized the team after the Olympics last year — and the year-long resiliency — is still there.
Behind Enemy Lines: Utah Stormed Back in Pittsburgh
The Utah Mammoth are on a six-game road trip. They started the trip on Thursday with a 4–3 road win over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Pittsburgh native Logan Cooley compiled a hat trick. The third goal came, literally, with the Mammoth one second from a 3-2 loss. Cooley scored at 19:59 of the third period to force overime.
Twenty-four seconds earlier, the Penguins snapped a 2-2 deadlock. Subsequently, Mikhai Sergachev netted the winning goal for Utah in sudden death overtime.
Flyers Daily: Myrt and Bundy
Jason Myrtetus had a special co-host on Friday’s edition of Flyers Daily: Hockey Hot Stove co-founder Chris Therien from the Flyers Broadcast Network. Jason is still regaining strength from his most recent round of chemotherapy. He did not feel up to flying solo for Thursday’s episode. Being the good friend that he is, Bundy offered to co-host the episode.
60th Anniversary: Today in Flyers History
Bobby Clarke was always known as more of a playmaker – one of the best in NHL history, as a matter of fact – than as a goal scorer during his Hall of Fame career. He did not have an overpowering shot and primarily scored his goals through a quick release, hockey sense and sheer hustle. Most of his 358 regular season and 42 playoff goals were gritty rather than pretty.
Clarke’s first career NHL goal was scored in the seventh game of his rookie season. On October 30, 1969, the Flyers and Rangers skated to a 3-3 tie at the Spectrum. Hinting at his future reputation for scoring in the clutch, it was the 20-year-old rookie from Flin Flon, Manitoba, who scored with 3:24 left in the third period to forge the tie after the Flyers were unable to protect an early 2-0 lead and found themselves trailing late in the game.
Set up by center Andre Lacroix, Jean-Guy Gendron and Lew Morrison scored first period goals for Philadelphia to build a 2-0 lead before the Rangers struck for the next three goals. Bernie Parent stopped 32 of 35 shots to earn the tie. Eddie Giacomin turned back 31 of 34 for the Rangers.
