Game 17 Preview: Flyers @ Bruins
John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (7-6-3) are in Beantown on Thursday to take on Jim Montgomery's Boston Bruins (14-2-0). Game time at TD Garden is 7:00 p.m. ET.
The Flyers, who are 0-3-1 in their last four games, enter this game coming off a 5-4 overtime road loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday evening. Philadelphia rallied back from deficits of 2-0 in the second period and 4-2 in the third period to claim one point before yielding a fatal 3-on-1 counterattack in overtime that ended the game in sudden death.
The Bruins. who are a perfect 9-0-0 on home ice thus far, bring a four-game winning streak into this game. They last played on Sunday, defeating the visiting Vancouver Canucks by a 5-2 score.
Philly has activated checking forward Patrick Brown (preseason back surgery) from injured reserve. If he plays in Boston, either Kieffer Bellows or Morgan Frost could come out of the lineup as a coach's decision scratch.
For an in-depth game preview, see today's
Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com.
Projected lineups, subject to change:
FLYERS (Will be updated, line combos from last game)
21 Scott Laughton - 13 Kevin Hayes - 11 Travis Konecny
74 Owen Tippett - 49 Noah Cates - 17 Zack MacEwen
86 Joel Farabee - 48 Morgan Frost - 71 Max Willman
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 23 Lukas Sedlak - 38 Patrick Brown
9 Ivan Provorov - 77 Tony DeAngelo
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
24 Nick Seeler - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
79 Carter Hart
[32 Felix Sandström]
Scratched: 20 Kieffer Bellows, 54 Egor Zamula
BRUINS
63 Brad Marchand - 37 Patrice Bergeron - 88 David Pastrnak
71 Taylor Hall - 46 David Krejci - 74 Jake DeBrusk
11 Trent Frederic - 13 Charlie Coyle - 18 Pavel Zacha
17 Nick Foligno - 92 Tomas Nosek - 10 A.J. Greer
48 Matt Grzelcyk - 73 Charlie McAvoy
27 Hampus Lindholm - 75 Connor Clifton
67 Jakub Zboril - 25 Brandon Carlo
35 Linus Ullmark
[1 Jeremy Swayman]
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