UPDATE 2:30 PM EDT
Here are some updates on the Vancouver lineup for Friday via Canucks' writer Ben Kuzma:
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Preview: Flyers @ Canucks
On opening night of the 2024-25 regular season, the Flyers (0-0-0) are in British Columbia to take on the Vancouver Canucks (0-0-1). Game time is 10:00 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. Pacific).
Friday's game will mark the NHL debuts of both 19-year-old Matvei Michkov and 18-year-old Jett Luchanko. Philly is dealing with the absence of defenseman Nick Seeler, who took a puck off his knee in the Oct. 1 exhibition game in Boston and been unable to practice since then. The Flyers expected to recall second-year young defenseman Emil Andrae on Saturday for the team's game in Calgary. Veteran Erik Johnson will step into the starting lineup for the opener in Vancouver.
On the Vancouver side, the Canucks are dealing with the injury-related absence of No. 1 goaltender Thatcher Demko. The Canucks are coming off a 6-5 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. Vancouver built a 4-1 lead through the opening 20 minutes but were unable to protect it. Arturs Silovs was in net for the opener. The Canucks may opt for Kevin Lankinen against the Flyers.
For an in-depth preview of Friday's game, see
Five Things.
PROJECTED LINEUPS (subject to change)
FLYERS
39 Matvei Michkov - 14 Sean Couturier - 11 Travis Konecny
74 Owen Tippett - 48 Morgan Frost - 71 Tyson Foerster
86 Joel Farabee - 17 Jett Luchanko - 10 Bobby Brink
21 Scott Laughton - 25 Ryan Poehling - 19 Garnet Hathaway
8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim
5 Egor Zamula - 9 Jamie Drysdale
55 Rasmus Ristolainen - 77 Erik Johnson
33 Samuel Ersson
[82 Ivan Fedotov]
PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Frost, Konecny, Michkov
PP2: Zamula, Foerster, Luchanko, Farabee, Brink
Scratches: 27 Noah Cates (healthy), 44 Nicolas Deslauriers (healthy), 24 Nick Seeler (lower-body).
CANUCKS
74 Jake DeBrusk - 40 Elias Pettersson - 91 Daniel Sprong
20 Danton Heinen - 9 J.T. Miller - 6 Brock Boeser
21 Nils Höglander - 54 Aatu Räty - 8 Conor Garland
88 Nils Åman - 53 Teddy Blueger - 44 Kiefer Sherwood
43 Quinn Hughes - 17 Filip Hronek
7 Carson Soucy - 57 Tyler Myers
27 Derek Forbort - 73 Vincent Desharnais
31 Kevin Lankinen
32 Arturs Silovs
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