Preview: Flyers vs. Capitals

Opening a home-and-home set that will resume in DC the next night, the Philadelphia Flyers (1-3-1) will host the Washington Capitals (3-1-0) on Tuesday at Wells Fargo Center. Take note of the unusual starting time: 6 p.m. EDT.

The Flyers will look to snap a four-game winless streak (0-3-1) since their opening night shootout victory in Vancouver. The Capitals will try to build on the three-game winning streak they've put together since an opening night loss to the New Jersey Devils.

For an in-depth preview, see Tuesday's edition of Five Things when it posts on the Flyers official website. The Flyers will not hold a morning skate on Tuesday.

With Scott Laughton not practicing on Monday (his wife Chloe was in labor with the family's first child), the Flyers featured some different line combinations. The actual starting lineup will be posted as a blog update during pregame warmups. Defenseman Nick Seeler, activated from IR, is expected to make his season debut on Tuesday.


Monday's practice lines

74 Owen Tippett - 25 Ryan Poehling - 39 Matvei Michkov
71 Tyson Foerster - 48 Morgan Frost - 11 Travis Konecny
86 Joel Farabee - 14 Sean Couturier - 10 Bobby Brink
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 27 Noah Cates - 19 Garnet Hathaway

Extra forward:17 Jett Luchanko
Excused from practice: 21 Scott Laughton

8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim
24 Nick Seeler - 9 Jamie Drysdale
5 Egor Zamula - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen

Extra defenseman: 77 Erik Johnson

33 Samuel Ersson
82 Ivan Fedotov

PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Frost, Konecny, Michkov
PP2: Zamula, Farabee, Poehling, Couturier, Brink

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