Game 22 Preview: Flyers @ Islanders
Trying to avoid a 10-game winless streak, John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (7-9-5) are in Elmont on Saturday to take on Lane Lambert's New York Islanders (14-8-0) at UBS Arena. Game time is 7:30 p.m. ET.
The Flyers are 0-6-3 over their last nine games. The team is coming off a 4-1 loss to the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday. The Flyers had the first five shots of the game but the Penguins went on to systematically take over the game and build a 4-0 lead shortly past the midway point of the game. Carter Hart, who was blameless on the first three Pittsburgh goals, allowed a bad goal on the fourth. Felix Sandström played the final 26:23 of the game. The third period was academic, but the Flyers generated 15 shots and Kevin Hayes (6th goal of the season) broke up the shutout bid.
The Islanders, meanwhile, have won three games in a row and seven of their last 10. On Friday, the Islanders skated to a 3-2 road win over the Columbus Blue Jackets as Brock Nelson (10th goal of the season) broke a 2-2 deadock at 6:10 of the third period. The Islanders had built a 2-0 lead on goals by Oliver Wahlstrom (6th) and J-G Pageau (PPG, 6th) but the Blue Jackets pushed back for a pair of power power goals spaced 33 seconds apart to send the match to the third period knotted at 2-2. Ilya Sorokin stopped 24 of 26 shots to earn the win in net. Mathew Barzal assisted on the Wahlstrom and Pageau goals.
Felix Sandström and Semyon Varlamov will start in goal on Saturday for their resective teams. For an in-depth game preview, see today's
Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com.
Lineups (from Friday's games, no morning skates on Saturday)
FLYERS
49 Noah Cates - 13 Kevin Hayes - 74 Owen Tippett
20 Kieffer Bellows - 48 Morgan Frost - 17 Zack MacEwen
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 58 Tanner Laczynski - 86 Joel Farabee
59 Jackson Cates - 23 Lukas Sedlak - 38 Patrick Brown
9 Ivan Provorov - 77 Tony DeAngelo
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
24 Nick Seeler - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
32 Felix Sandström
[79 Carter Hart]
ISLANDERS
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