The Philadelphia Flyers will roll into Honda Center tonight to face off against the Anaheim Ducks in the final game of this four-game Pacific road trip. The Flyers are currently 1-1-1 on the trip, as they defeated the Seattle Kraken to open things up before falling in overtime to the San Jose Sharks on the second leg of a back-to-back. Their most recent game was a 6-3 thrashing by the Los Angeles Kings back on Saturday night.
Philadelphia will be getting back forward Scott Laughton and goaltender Carter Hart ahead of tonight’s game against a solid Ducks squad, who are having a strong year so far and currently sit second in the Pacific Division standings. Unfortunately, the Flyers will be missing defenseman Ivan Provorov and forward Claude Giroux after both were placed in COVID-19 protocols earlier today.
Flyers interim head coach Mike Yeo noted the importance of tonight’s contest in his press conference yesterday afternoon when asked about it by NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Jordan Hall.
“I think it’s a very important game to be honest. First of all, you know, you wanna bounce back from a loss. I think that’s what good teams do, and we lost last game, you know, created some more opportunities, kind of climbed back into it but not really. So we wanna bounce back from that.”
“I think we win that game tomorrow and I think we’re all coming home feeling pretty decent about the trip. Not necessarily an outstanding trip but a pretty good trip, and gives us a chance to get back on the horse, get some momentum going into some games coming up at home.”
PHI Record: 13-13-6, 32 pts, 5th in Metropolitan
ANA Record: 17-11-7, 41 pts, 2nd in Pacific
When: 10:00pm ET
Where: Honda Center, Anaheim, CA
PHI Goalie: Carter Hart (7-8-4, .918 SV%, 2.74 GAA, 1 SO)
ANA Goalie: John Gibson (11-9-6, .915 SV%, 2.71 GAA, 1 SO)
PHI Projected Lineup
#86 Joel Farabee – #13 Kevin Hayes – #89 Cam Atkinson
#23 Oskar Lindblom – #48 Morgan Frost – #11 Travis Konecny
#25 James van Riemsdyk – #21 Scott Laughton – #20 Gerry Mayhew
#71 Max Willman – #38 Patrick Brown – #17 Zack MacEwen
#6 Travis Sanheim – #61 Justin Braun
#45 Cam York – #70 Rasmus Ristolainen
#3 Keith Yandle – #8 Kevin Connauton
#79 Carter Hart
#35 Martin Jones
ANA Projected Lineup
#44 Maxime Comtois – #21 Isac Lundeström – #19 Troy Terry
#12 Sonny Milano – #39 Sam Carrick – #67 Rickard Rakell
#28 Vinny Lettieri – #23 Sam Steel – #55 Danny O’Regan
#53 Buddy Robinson
#4 Cam Fowler – #42 Josh Manson
#47 Hampus Lindholm – #34 Jamie Drysdale
#86 Simon Benoit – #22 Kevin Shattenkirk
#36 John Gibson
#41 Anthony Stolarz
Last Game PHI: 1/1/22, 6-3 L at Los Angeles
Last Game ANA: 1/2/22, 4-2 L at Colorado
News and Notes
- This is the 39th contest all-time between the Ducks and Flyers since Anaheim’s inception in 1993. Philadelphia leads the all-time series 15-13-5-5.
- Mike Yeo will be serving his 11th game behind the Flyers bench since taking over for Alain Vigneault on December 6th. Yeo is 5-3-2 so far and will look for his 252nd career win behind an NHL bench, which is 13th among active NHL head coaches.
- Cam Atkinson will appear in his 660th career NHL game and his 33rd with the Flyers. He currently has 225 goals and 200 assists or 425 points in his career.
- Kevin Hayes will play in his 520th career NHL game and his 139th as a Flyer. He has racked up 80 points with Philadelphia in that stretch.
- Travis Konecny will be looking for his 100th career NHL goal tonight, as he currently has 99 throughout 381 career contests.
- Tonight will be James van Riemsdyk’s 830th career NHL game and it will be his 417th as a Flyer, which is 50th all-time in franchise history and third among active Flyers.
- This is the Flyers’ first game against the Ducks since the 2019-20 season when they visited Honda Center on December 29th, 2019. Philadelphia would win 2-1 in overtime on a Kevin Hayes breakaway goal with 1:07 to play.
Broadcast Info: TV – NBC Sports Philadelphia, ESPN+, Radio – 97.5 The Fanatic
Injuries
PHI: Ryan Ellis (lower-body), Sean Couturier (upper-body), Nick Seeler (COVID protocols), Jackson Cates (COVID protocols), Claude Giroux (COVID protocols), Ivan Provorov (COVID protocols)
ANA: Adam Henrique (lower-body), Josh Mahura (upper-body), Max Jones (upper-body), Ryan Getzlaf (COVID protocols), Nicolas Deslauriers (COVID protocols), Derek Grant (COVID protocols), Trevor Zegras (COVID protocols)
