Game 27 Preview: Flyers vs. Capitals
John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (9-12-5) will host Peter Laviolette's Washington Capitals (11-12-4) at the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday evening. Game time is 7:00 p.m. ET.
The Flyers will conclude a five-game homestand in which they've gone 2-2-0 thus far. The Capitals will wrap up a six-game road trip in which they've posted a 2-2-1 record to date. The Flyers enter this game coming off a 5-3 home win against the Colorado Avalanche on Monday, while the Capitals earned a 3-2 road win over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
The Flyers will have James van Riemsdyk back in the lineup. He has missed the last 20 games while on IR for a broken right index finger that required surgery on Oct. 28. Tanner Laczynski was placed on IR on Tuesday for a lower-body injury sustained in the third period of Monday's game against Colorado. Cam Atkinson (upper-body injury) practiced with the team on Tuesday but remains unavailable to play. He will miss his 27th game of the season.
The Capitals are every bit as injury riddled as the Flyers. For this game, they could be without eight or more regulars, and the team has six players who remain on IR.
The Flyers broke an 0-for-20 drought on the power play in Saturday's game against New Jersey. Subsequently, they went 2-for-3 on the man advantage against Colorado. The team will now look to make it three straight games with a power play goal and, for the first this season, three straight games of winning the overall special teams battle.
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PROJECTED LINEUPS (subject to change, will be updated)
FLYERS
13 Kevin Hayes - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny
86 Joel Farabee - 48 Morgan Frost - 74 Owen Tippett
21 Scott Laughton - 23 Lukas Sedlak - 25 James van Riemsdyk
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen
9 Ivan Provorov - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
24 Nick Seeler - 77 Tony DeAngelo
79 Carter Hart
[32 Felix Sandström]
CAPITALS
8 Alex Ovechkin - 17 Dylan Strome - 73 Conor Sheary
15 Sonny Milano - 92 Evgeny Kuznetsov - 77 T.J. Oshie
90 Marcus Johansson - 20 Lars Eller - 39 Anthony Mantha
59 Aliaksei Protas - 26 Nic Dowd - 21 Garnet Hathaway
56 Erik Gustafsson - 74 John Carlson
57 Trevor van Riemsdyk - 3 Nick Jensen
27 Alexander Alexeyev - 52 Matt Irwin
79 Charlie Lindgren
[31 Hunter Shepard]
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