Game 19 Preview: Flyers vs. Hurricanes
Alain Vigneault's Philadelphia Flyers (8-6-4) will take on Rod Brind'Amour's Carolina Hurricanes (14-3-1) at the Wells Fargo Center on Friday afternoon. Game time is 3:30 p.m. ET (NBCSP, 97.5 The Fanatic).
This is the second of four meetings this season between the Metro Division teams. They will rematch at the Wells Fargo Center on Jan. 11 before the scene shifts to Raleigh to finish the regular season series on March 12.
he Flyers have gone 1-3-2 over their last six games. They are currently winless in their last four games (0-2-2). Friday's game is the Flyers third in less than four nights. On Wednesday, stellar goaltending from Martin Jones enabled the Flyers to capture one point, but they lost a road overtime decision, 2-1, to the Florida Panthers.
In the time since their loss to the Flyers (Carolina's only home defeat of the season), the Hurricanes defeated St, Louis the next day and then embarked on a six-game road trip. The first five games were played out west, with the Hurricanes winning the first three. Over the last two games, Carolina claimed one point from a 2-1 overtime loss in San Jose on Monday and then lost in regulation, 2-1, to the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday.
For an in-depth preview of the Black Friday game, see today's
Five Things.
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Preview: Phantoms @ Syracuse
Ian Laperriere's Lehigh Valley Phantoms (3-8-5) return to action on Friday, when they pay a visit to play Benoit Groulx's Syracuse Crunch (5-7-3). Game time at the Upstate Medical University Arena at Onondaga County War Memorial is 7:00 p.m. ET.
The Phantoms are 3-3-4 in their last 10 games. With leading scorer Morgan Frost (3g, 12 a in 16 games) on recall to the Flyers, the Phantoms will have to find other sources of offense. On Friday, the Flyers recalled Connor Bunnaman from the Phantoms and returned Max Willman (7g, 2a) to their farm team.
The Phantoms rank last (31st) in the AHL with 9.7 percent rate on the power play. Overall, the team has scored 39 goals while allowing 52.
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