Flyers Game Day: 11/1/26 vs. Utah

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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (3-8-4) home on Sunday to take on Andre Tourigny’s Utah Mammoth (9-5-0). The Flyers have had three nights off since their last game on Wednesday. Utah is in the second match of a six-game road trip.

The Flyers have dropped each of their last three games since putting together a three-game winning streak. On Tuesday, the Flyers recovered from a 3-0 deficit to force overtime against the Columbus Blue Jackets. Unfortunately, they fell to a 4-3 home overtime loss after the Blue Jackets had a pair of 2-on-0 breakaways in sudden death. The next night, Philly suffered a 5-2 loss in Washington.

The Mammoth started their current road trip with a 4-3 overtime win against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Hometown product Logan Cooley assembled a hat trick.  Mikhail Sergachev notched the winning goal in sudden death.

Projected Goalie Matchup

Flyers: Dan Vladar (2-3-2, 3.36 GAA, .888 SV%)
Mammoth: Karel Vejmelka (6-4-0, 3.13 GAA, .881 SV%)

Flyers scoring leaders

Points
Trevor Zegra — 13
Matvei Michkov — 11
Porter Martone — 6
four players — 5

Goals
Matvei Michkov — 9
Trevor Zegras — 4
Porter Martone — 3
three players — 2
seven players — 1

Assists
Trevor Zegras — 9
Oliver Bonk — 5
Denver Barkey — 5
Travis Sanheim — 4
Nick Seeler — 4
four players — 3

Where to Watch

Time: 4:00 p.m. EDT
Venue: Xfinity Mobile Arena
Television networks: NBCSP
Radio: 97.5 The Fanatic

Flyers Injury Report

The Flyers hope to get at least one of Owen TIppett (upper body) or Travis Konecny (knee) back on Sunday. Konecny has missed the last 10 games. Tippett has missed six. The team returned Hunter McDonald to the Phantoms on Saturday. The rest of the known injuries.

• Rasmus Ristolainen (hand) — IR, reinjured in Oct. 24 game, out at least two weeks from then
• Noel Acciari (upper body) — day to day
• Nikita Grebenkin (back surgery) — sidelined at least four months from October

Potential Flyers Lineup (Saturday practice)

The combos are subject to change. There is no morning skate on Sunday.

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/ Noel Acciari

Travis Sanheim — Jamie Drysdale
Cam York – Nick Seeler
Simon Benoit – Oliver Bonk

Dan Vladar
[Joseph Woll]

Available: David Jiricek.

Team Toyota Flyers Spotlight: Finding more scoring sources

It is not confirmed as of this writing whether Travis Konecny (10 games missed) and/or Owen Tippett (six games missed) will be ready to be activated yet from the Injured Reserve list. Any which way, it’s important for the Flyers to start getting a wider array of contributions from the lineup.

Across the roster, only three players — Matvei Michkov (9), Trevor Zegras (4), and Porter Martone (3) — have more than two goals to their credit to date.

Meanwhile, only five players — Zegras (9), Denver Barkey (5), Oliver Bonk (5),  Travis Sanheim (4), and Nick Seeler (4) — have generated more than three assists. Note that just two forwards have done so thus far.

Behind Enemy Lines: Mammoth power play success

The power play has been a bright spot for the Flyers after struggling over the season’s first eight games. Overall, the Flyers enter Sunday ranked 26th in the NHL at 16.3 percent efficiency. Meanwhile, the Mammoth come in with the NHL’s top rated power play: 16-for-47 (34.0 percent).

Flyers: Tocchet talks about competition for spots

60th Anniversary: Today in Flyers History

In the history of the Flyers’ franchise, there have been seven players to score 300 or more regular season goals as a member of the team: Bill Barber (420 in 903 games), Brian Propp (369 in 790 games), Tim Kerr (363 in 601 games) Bobby Clarke (358 in 1,144 games), John LeClair (333 in 649 games), Rick MacLeish (328 in 741 games) and Reggie Leach (306 in 606 games).

Falling just a bit short of the Flyers 300-Goal Club due mainly to the number of games he missed was Eric Lindros (290 in 486 games). Also shy of the mark are the likes of Simon Gagne (264 in 702 games), Rod Brind’Amour (235 in 633 games), Mark Recchi (232 in 602 games) and Rick Tocchet (232 in 621 games).

On November 1, 1987, Propp became the fifth member of the 300-Goal Club. Set up by Murray Craven. Propp scored a third period goal against the Los Angeles Kings’ Roland Melanson in a 4-1 Flyers win at the Spectrum. Propp celebrated with his signature “guffaw” hand gesture.

Although Propp never nailed down an elusive 50-goal or 100-point season as a Flyer, he had four seasons with 40 or more goals and achieved 90 or more points four times, including a pair of 97-point campaigns.