The Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs will square off tonight at Wells Fargo Center in the first leg of a back-to-back weekend set for the Flyers.
Defenseman Ronnie Attard will make his NHL debut tonight for Philadelphia, donning #47. Attard’s season at Western Michigan recently came to an end and he signed his entry-level contract last week. Attard will be slotting in for Keith Yandle, whose ironman streak will officially end at 989 consecutive games, the longest in NHL history to this point in time, though Phil Kessel will likely break it now.
It is also Autism Awareness Night at Wells Fargo Center, and today is World Autism Awareness Day as well! Guests from the Kinney Center for Autism Education and Support at St. Joseph’s University will be hosted by the team and will be participating in events throughout the evening. The arena’s Sensory Room will also be open and Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk will be shown on the scoreboard during the game giving a welcome to the Kinney Center guests and others attending for Autism Awareness Night. Before puck drop, Celeste Green from the Kinney Center will lead the Flyers’ “Bring the Noise” pre-game drum banging tradition, and she and Angus Murray, Executive Director of the Kinney Center, will be recognized as the night’s Community Teammate as well.
On another note, Travis Konecny will be out of tonight’s game as he is suffering from an undisclosed illness, and Hayden Hodgson will draw into his place in the lineup. Konecny was slated to be on the second line with Oskar Lindblom and Kevin Hayes before being a scratch today.
PHI Record: 21-35-11, 53 pts, 8th in Metropolitan
TOR Record: 43-19-5, 91 pts, 3rd in Atlantic
When: 7:00PM ET
Where: Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, PA
PHI Goalie: Carter Hart (13-21-7, .909 SV%, 3.04 GAA, 1 SO)
TOR Goalie: Jack Campbell (24-9-4, .914 SV%, 2.65 GAA, 4 SO)
PHI Projected Lineup
#49 Noah Cates – #86 Joel Farabee – #89 Cam Atkinson
#23 Oskar Lindblom – #13 Kevin Hayes – #42 Hayden Hodgson
#25 James van Riemsdyk – #48 Morgan Frost – #74 Owen Tippett
#44 Nate Thompson – #38 Patrick Brown – #17 Zack MacEwen
#9 Ivan Provorov – #45 Cam York
#6 Travis Sanheim – #70 Rasmus Ristolainen
#24 Nick Seeler – #47 Ronnie Attard
#79 Carter Hart
#35 Martin Jones
TOR Projected Lineup
#58 Michael Bunting – #34 Auston Matthews – #16 Mitch Marner
#65 Ilya Mikheyev – #91 John Tavares – #19 Jason Spezza
#88 William Nylander – #64 David Kämpf – #47 Pierre Engvall
#26 Nick Abruzzese – #11 Colin Blackwell – #24 Wayne Simmonds
#44 Morgan Rielly – #46 Ilya Lyubushkin
#78 T.J. Brodie – #3 Justin Holl
#55 Mark Giordano – #37 Timothy Liljegren
#36 Jack Campbell
#50 Erik Källgren
Last Game PHI: 3/29/22, 4-1 L at Minnesota
Last Game TOR: 3/31/22, 7-3 W vs. Winnipeg
News and Notes
– This is the 188th all-time meeting between the two teams since the Flyers’ inception in 1967. Philadelphia maintains a 100-60-22-5 lead in the all-time series over Toronto.
– This is the second of three meetings this season and the last one at Wells Fargo Center. The Maple Leafs won the first meeting in Philadelphia on November 10th by a score of 4-1.
– Scott Laughton has been cleared to play after suffering a concussion on March 10th against Florida. Laughton will not be in the lineup tonight as the Flyers want to ease him in, but he should draw in soon.
Broadcast Info: NBC Sports Philadelphia, ESPN+, 97.5 The Fanatic
Injuries:
PHI – Ryan Ellis (lower-body), Sean Couturier (back), Travis Konecny (illness)
TOR – Jake Muzzin (concussion), Ondrej Kaše (head), Petr Mrázek (groin), Rasmus Sandin (knee)
