Game 35 Preview: Flyers vs. Hurricanes
Playing their final game before the NHL's leaguewide holiday break, John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (11-16-7) are in Raleigh on Friday evening to take on Rod Brind'Amour's Carolina Hurricanes (20-6-6). Game time at the PNC Center is 7:00 p.m. ET.
Both the Flyers and Hurricanes are playing for the third time in four nights and second game of a back-to-back set. The Hurricanes, who have won seven straight games and have rattled off a 9-0-1 record across the last 10 games, need a win or regulation tie against the Flyers to set a new franchise record with points in 14 straight games. Carolina is 11-0-2 in its last 13 games played.
The Flyers enter this game coming off a
4-3 road loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday afternoon. The Flyers led, 1-0, until late in the second period, gave up the next four goals and then staged a comeback bid that fell one goal short.
Tony DeAngelo (PPG, 5th goal of the season), Morgan Frost (7th of the season, goals in three straight games) and Joel Farabee (6th) scored in a losing cause. Carter Hart stopped 30 of 34 shots, while the Flyers mustered only 19 shots on goal.
The Hurricanes enter this game coming off a 4-3 road overtime win against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday. Jaccob Slavin (2nd goal of the season) ended the game at the 23-second mark of overtime. Martin Necas (14th), Jalen Chatfield (1st) and Jordan Staal (10th, 15:34 of the third period) scored in regulation. Antti Raanta made 24 saves on 27 shots.
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Potential lineups (subject to change)
Flyers
86 Joel Farabee - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny
25 James van Riemsdyk - 48 Morgan Frost - 74 Owen Tippett
13 Kevin Hayes - 21 Scott Laughton - 57 Wade Allison
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen
9 Ivan Provorov - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
6 Travis Sanheim - 77 Tony DeAngelo
45 Cam York - 61 Justin Braun
79 Carter Hart
33 Samuel Ersson
Hurricanes
37 Andrei Svechnikov - 26 Paul Stastny - 88 Martin Necas
86 Teuvo Teräväinen - 82 Jesperi Kotkaniemi - 24 Seth Jarvis
48 Jordan Martinook - 11 Jordan Staal - 71 Jesper Fast
23 Stefan Noesen - 18 Jack Drury - 21 Derek Stepan
74 Jaccob Slavin - 8 Brent Burns
5 Jalen Chatfield - 22 Brett Pesce
44 Calvin de Haan - 15 Dylan Coghlin
52 Pyotr Kochetkov
32 Antti Raanta
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