Preseason Gameday: Flyers vs. Capitals

In the third of six games on their preseason docket, the Flyers will host the Washington Capitals at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday evening. Game time is 7:00 p.m. EDT. The game will be televised on NBCSP+.

The Flyers are 0-1-1 in the exhibition season to date. On Friday, the Flyers "A" group in practice consisted of NHL roster players (plus junior-aged prospect Elliot Desnoyers). Lineups for Saturday's game will be updated after the morning skate. On Friday, these were the line combos (mostly unchanged throughout the first week of camp).

Saturday's projected lineup:

28 Claude Giroux - 14 Sean Couturier - 11 Travis Konecny
25 James van Riemsdyk - 48 Morgan Frost - 86 Joel Farabee
23 Okar Lindblom - 19 Derick Brassard - 89 Cam Atkinson
21 Scott Laughton - 44 Nate Thompson - 62 Nic Aube-Kubel
Extra forward: 73 Elliot Desnoyers

9 Ivan Provorov - 94 Ryan Ellis
6 Travis Sanheim - 70 Rasmus Ristolainen
3 Keith Yandle - 61 Justin Braun

35 Martin Jones
[32 Felix Sandström]

PP1: Giroux, JVR, Couturier, Konecny, Yandle.
PP2: Farabee, Brassard/Frost, Atkinson, Ristolainen, Provorov

Scratches: 78 Mathew Strome, 49 Logan Day.

The Flyers made three roster cuts on Saturday morning: Goalie Kirill Ustimenko and ATO defensemen Quinn Schmiemann and Jackson van de Leest were assigned to the Phantoms.

The Capitals, like the Flyers, are 0-1-1 in the preseason to date although the team puck possession analytics in games against Boston and New Jersey skewed in Washington's favor. For Saturday's game in Philadelphia, numerous prominent Caps players -- Alex Ovechkin, Nicklas Bäckström, T.J. Oshie, John Carlson and Dmitry Orlov -- are not expected to be on the trip. Regulars who are expected to dress include Evgeny Kuznetsov, Tom Wilson, Anthony Mantha, Nick Jensen and Justin Schultz.

Ilya Samsonov is expected to get his second start of the preseason. He's slated to play the full game in net.

apitals Gameday Roster

Forwards
10 Daniel Sprong
21 Garnet Hathaway
23 Mike Sgarbossa
26 Nic Dowd
39 Anthony Mantha
40 Garrett Pilon
43 Tom Wilson
45 Axel Jonsson-Fjällby
49 Brett Leason
59 Aliaksei Protas
62 Carl Hagelin
73 Conor Sheary
91 Joe Snively
92 Evgeny Kuznetsov

Defensemen
2 Justin Schultz
3 Nick Jensen
6 Michal Kempny
27 Alex Alexeyev
42 Martin Fehervary
46 Tobias Geisser
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk

Goaltenders
1 Pheonix Copley
30 Ilya Samsonov

Join the Discussion: » 124 Comments » Post New Comment

» Lightning Strike Takes Down Jets

» Practice Day, Ersson, Jay Greenberg, A Personal Note

» Flyers Gameday: Game 12 vs. BOS

» Wrap: Brink Lifts Flyers over Blues, 2-1

» Game 11 Preview: Flyers vs. STL