Preview: Flyers vs. Ducks

Philadelphia Flyers (4-2-1) will host the Anaheim Ducks (3-4-0) in a Saturday matinee at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time is 1:00 p.m. ET.

The Flyers enter Saturday's game coming off a 6-2 rout of the Minnesota Wild to improve to 3--0-0 at home so far this season. The Ducks, who are 2-2-0 on the road, are coming off a 4-3 overime road win against the Boston Bruins.

Saturday's game is the second in a four-game homestand for the Flyers. For the Ducks, it's the third game of a four-game road trip.

For an in-depth preview of the game, see "Five Things" on the Flyers official website on Saturday morning. Projected lineups are listed below.

FLYERS

11 Travis Konecny - 21 Scott Laughton - 71 Tyson Foerster
74 Owen Tippett- 14 Sean Couturier - 89 Cam Atkinson
86 Joel Farabee - 27 Noah Cates - 10 Bobby Brink
44 Nic Deslauriers- 25 Ryan Poehling- Garnet Hathaway

8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim
5 Egor Zamula - 26 Sean Walker
37 Louie Belpedio - 24 Nick Seeler

79 Carter Hart
[33 Samuel Ersson]

DUCKS

11 Trevor Zegras - 91 Leo Carlsson - 19 Troy Terry
77 Frank Vatrano - 23 Mason McTavish - 16 Ryan Strome
49 Max Jones - 14 Adam Henrique - 33 Jakob Silfverberg
44 Ross Johnston - 39 Sam Carrick - 20 Brett Leason

4 Cam Fowler - 60 Jackson Lacombe
5 Urho Vaakanainen - 7 Radko Gudas
34 Pavel Mintyukov - 46 Ilya Lyubushkin

36 John Gibson
1 Lukas Dostal

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Preview: Phantoms @ Hershey

After winning two of three games in a three-in-three set last weekend, the Lehigh Valley Phantoms (3-2-0) return to action on Saturday on the road against the arch-rival Hershey Bears (4-2-0). Game time is 7:05 p.m. ET. The Phantoms are home on Sunday to host the Hartford Wolf Pack (4-1-0) in a 5:05 p.m. ET game. Both games will be streamed on AHL TV (subscription required).

Olle Lycksell earned AHL Player of the Week honor last weekend with five goals in the three-game set including a hat trick. Emil Andrae will play his first AHL regular season game of the young season after being sent down by the Flyers earlier in the week.





 

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