Game 27 Preview: Flyers vs. Devils

Returning to home ice after a three-game road trip, interim head coach Mike Yeo's Philadelphia Flyers (10-12-4) will host Lindy Ruff's New Jersey Devils (10-11-5) on Tuesday evening. Game time at the Wells Fargo Center is 7:00 p.m. ET (NBCSP, 97.5 The Fanatic).

This is the third and final meeting of the season between the teams, and the lone game in Philadelphia. The Flyers are 0-2-0 in the two games so far. Philadelphia has yet to play with a lead at any point in the season series.

On Nov. 28 in Newark, the Flyers pushed back from deficits of 1-0 and 2-0 to tie the game at 2-2 in the third period. New Jersey then converted a puck exchange miscue between Rasmus Ristolainen and Ivan Provorov into a 3-2 lead and went on to pull away for a 5-2 final.

The teams rematched at the Prudential Center on Dec. 8. The Flyers were subpar in every major aspect of the game and fell by a 3-0 score. Jesper Bratt, Dawson Mercer (PPG) and Michael McLeod (ENG) scored,for the Devils. Carter Hart made 24 saves on 26 shots. Mackenzie Blackwood was not tested often and turned back 25 mostly routine shots.

Since the shutout loss in New Jersey last Wednesday, the Flyers ended their 10-game winless streak with a 4-3 win in Vegas on Friday. The next night, the Flyers captured a 5-3 victory in Arizona. Meanwhile, the Devils sustained a 3-2 home loss to the Nashville Predators on Friday and a 4-2 road loss to the New York Islanders the next night. The Devils have only won two of their last 10 games but both wins came at the Flyers' expense.

Neither the Flyers nor the Devils will hold a morning skate on Tuesday. The Flyers projected lineup is below. The Devils have three players in COVID-19 protocol (Nico Hischier, Ryan Graves and Christian Jaros) and others who are dealing with minor non-COVID illnesses. The New Jersey lineup will be posted when available. For a five-facet preview of this game, see today's Five Things feature on the Flyers' official website.

Projected lineups:

Flyers
21 Scott Laughton- 14 Sean Couturier- 11 Travis Konecny
48 Morgan Frost - 28 Claude Giroux-89 Cam Atkinson
71 Max Willman - 13 Kevin Hayes- 25 James van Riemsdyk
23 Oskar Lindblom - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen

9 Ivan Provorov - 61 Justin Braun
7 Travis Sanheim - 70 Rasmus Ristolainen
3 Keith Yandle - 8 Kevin Connauton

79 Carter Hart
[35 Martin Jones]

Devils -- TBD

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