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Flyers Preseason Gameday: 9/16/19 vs. NYI |
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Update: 9:20 AM
Morgan Frost is unavailable to play tonight. He is day to day with a lower body injury per Chuck Fletcher. Veteran AHL center Cal O'Reilly will start in Frost's place. Additionally, Gerry Fitzgerald and Egor Serdyuk are day to day with LBIs.
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New head coach Alain Vigneault's Philadelphia Flyers open their preseason schedule on Monday night at the Wells Fargo Center with a game against Barry Trotz's New York Islanders. Game time is 7:00 p.m. EDT. The game will be televised on NBCSP.
Monday's game marks the start of a busy week for the Flyers; three games in four nights and four games over six nights. On Tuesday, the Flyers and Islanders will rematch in Uniondale with different lineups than the ones that will appear on Monday.
Vigneault indicated after Sunday's practice that the line combinations that appeared at the mid-morning practice session (minus two defensemen) would remain intact for Monday's game. The afternoon group, minus Claude Giroux and Sean Couturier, would start Tuesday's game. With such a busy schedule of games this week, the first significant batch of roster cuts may not come until the weekend.
Philadelphia's goaltending plan for Monday is for Brian Elliott to get the start. Alex Lyon will take over midway through the second period.
STARTING LINEUP (subject to change)
FLYERS
25 James van Riemsdyk - 13 Kevin Hayes - 93 Jakub Voracek
23 Oskar Lindblom -50 German Rubtsov - 44 Chris Stewart
76 Isaac Ratcliffe - 46 Cal O'Reilly - 49 Joel Farabee
64 Maksim Sushko - 24 Mikhail Vorobyev - 51 Kyle Criscuolo
53 Shayne Gostisbehere - 61 Justin Braun
55 Samuel Morin - 3 Andy Welinski
54 Egor Zamula (or 20 Chris Bigras) - 5 Philippe Myers
37 Brian Elliott
34 Alex Lyon
ISLANDERS
Beauvillier-Koivula-Komarov
Martin-Cizikas-Ho-Sang
McDonald-Lorito-Bellows
Brown-Bardreau-St. Denis
Aho-Mayfield
Hickey-Hutton
Sbisa - Burroughs
Varlamov
Gibson