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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers (8-5-3) are on the road on Friday to take on Jim Montgomery’s St. Louis Blues (6-8-3) at Enterprise Center. The Flyers have gained points in four straight games but are coming off back-to-back home overtime losses to the Ottawa Senators (3-2 last Saturday) and Edmonton Oilers (2-1 on Wednesday).
Matvei Michkov brings a career-best three-game goal-scoring streak into Friday’s tilt. He will go for four in a row against the Blues. Meanwhile, Travis Konecny will look to extended his current eight-game point streak (4g, 6a, 10 points). Conversely, the serially streaky Owen Tippett has not recorded a point in his last six games and has one point (0g, 1a) to show for his last 10 games after a run of five goals in five games.
With the Flyers playing the front end of a B2B and the second game of a three-in-four set, look for Samuel Ersson and Dan Vladar to split the next two games in net.
The Blues have been idle since a 3-2 home win against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. The Blues got off to a 3-0 lead, yielded two goals in a half-minute span in the second period but held on to win. Dylan Holloway (PPG, 4th), Matthew Kessel (4th) and Nathan Walker (2nd) scored for the Blues. Oskar Sundqvist posted a pair of assists, tying him with Robert Thomas for the team high (7) for the season.
Where to watch
Time and broadcast: 7:30 p.m. ET on NBCSP
Listen online: FlyersRadio 24/7
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Projected Flyers Lineup
The Flyers had an optional practice on Thursday before leaving for St. Louis. The projected lineup below It is subject to change and will be adjusted if need be. Nikita Grebenkin, a healthy scratch against Edmonton, may or may not replace Nicolas Deslauriers. Whichever goaltender is Friday’s backup will start in Dallas on Saturday.
Trevor Zegras – Sean Couturier – Matvei Michkov
Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink
Owen Tippett – Christian Dvorak – Travis Konecny
Nicolas Deslauriers – Rodrigo Abols – Garnet Hathaway
Cam York – Travis Sanheim
Nick Seeler – Jamie Drysdale
Emil Andrae – Noah Juulsen
Samuel Ersson
[Dan Vladar]
Scratches: Nikita Grebenkin (healthy), Egor Zamula (healthy), Adam Ginning (healthy)
Let’s Go Flyers. Trade Tippett!