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Rick Tocchet’s Philadelphia Flyers open their 2025-26 regular season schedule on Thursday. The team is in Sunrise, Florida, on Thursday. The opponent: the two-time defending Stanley Cup champion (and three-peat Eastern Conference champion) Florida Panthers. Here’s the 411 to get you set for the opener.
- Time and broadcast: 7:00 p.m. EDT on NBCSP
- PhiladelphiaFlyers.com keys to the game for Philadelphia: click here.
- Listen online: FlyersRadio 24/7
Flyers Projected Starting Lineup
Christian Dvorak – Sean Couturier – Matvei Michkov
Owen Tippett – Trevord Zegras – Travis Konecny
Tyson Foerster – Noah Cates – Bobby Brink
Nicolas Deslauriers – Rodrigo Abols – Garnet Hathaway
Nick Seeler – Travis Sanheim
Adam Ginning – Jamie Drysdale
Egor Zamula – Noah Juulsen
Dan Vladar
[Samuel Ersson]
Scratches: Jett Luchanko (healthy), Nikita Grebenkin (healthy), Dennis Gilbert (healthy)
Flyers Daily: Bobby Brink
Flyers winger Bobby Brink joins Jason Myrtetus (interview recorded on Monday) to talk about his breakthrough 2024-25 season. What are the keys to his chemistry with Noah Cates and Tyson Foerster? Meanwhile, what are his hopes and expectations for the 2025-26 season.
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How the times haven’ t changed. Plugs line ND playing while skill players sit
Hope this is just a nod to ND and his last first game of the season of his career. Panthers are a physical team so I won’t cry over this, but more.
The definition of insanity, rolling basically the same lineup out and expecting a different result. The Flyers don’t have the players to be a possession team. It’s not scheme, its having players that have chemistry and speed, and tonight so far, the Flyers have neither. I don’t understand why Grebenkin and Luchanko are sitting tonight. We say we care about player development this year, yet our promising young players are watching from the box!
The Flyers are starved for offense in this game, so what do they do? They put their best offensive player, Michkov, out there with Couts and Dvorek. Poor Michkov! Makes no sense!