Update (2:30 p.m. ET)
Carter Hart is in goal tonight. Tony DeAngelo is a (semi) healthy scratch. Cam York is in the starting lineup. The projected starting lineup has been updated accordingly.
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Game 28 Preview: Flyers @ Golden Knights
John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (9-13-5) are in Nevada on Friday to take on Bruce Cassidy's Vegas Golden Knights (19-8-1) at T-Mobile Arena. Game time is 10:00 p.m. ET.
The Flyers went 2-3-0 on their recent five-game homestand. On Thursday, the Flyers sustained a 4-1 loss to the Washington Capitals. Kevin Hayes notched a first-period power play goal (9th) or the lone Flyers' tally. The final two Washington goals were empty-net tallies by Alex Ovechkin, which turned a 2-1 game into a three-goal final margin of defeat for the Flyers.
Coming off a four-game road trip that saw the Golden Knights go 3-1-0, Vegas returned home to start a three-game homestand. On Wednesday night, the visiting New York Rangers dealt a 5-1 setback to Cassidy's club. The game entered the third period knotted at 1-1 before the Rangers exploded for four unanswered goals (including a pair of power play tallies) in the first 11:34 of the final stanza. Jonathan Marchessault ((PPG, 11th) scored a second period goal for Vegas.
The Flyers recalled defenseman Cam York on Thursday from the AHL's Lehigh Valley Phantoms. Egor Zamula was assigned to the Phantoms. For Vegas, Jack Eichel participated in the team's optional morning skate after missing the last two games. He is officially a game-time decision.
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PROJECTED LINEUPS (pre-morning skates, subject to change)
Flyers
13 Kevin Hayes - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny
21 Scott Laughton - 23 Lukas Sedlak - 86 Joel Farabee
25 James van Riemsdyk- 48 Morgan Frost - 74 Owen Tippett
44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen
9 Ivan Provorov - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
6 Travis Sanheim - 61 Justin Braun
45 Cam York -24 Nick Seeler
79 Carter Hart
[32 Felix Sandström]
Golden Knights
43 Paul Cotter - 20 Chandler Stephenson - 61 Mark Stone
81 Jonathan Marchessault - 71 William Karlsson - 19 Reilly Smith
46 Jonas Rondbjerg - 15 Jake Leschysyn - 8 Phil Kessel
28 William Carrier -10 Nicolas Roy - 55 Keegan Kolesar
3 Brayden McNabb - 27 Shea Theodore
23 Alec Martinez - 3 Zach Whitecloud
14 Nicolas Hague - 42 Daniil Miromanov
36 Logan Thompson
33 Adin Hill
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Preview: Phantoms vs. Checkers
The Lehigh Valley Phantoms (9-9-2) open a back-to-back set of home games on Friday at the PPL Center against the Charlotte Checkers (12-7-3). The teams split two games in Charlotte last weekend. Subsequently, the Phantoms dropped a 3-2 decision on the road to the Hartford Wolf Pack on Wednesday evening.
With Cam York being called up to the Flyers on Thursday, Egor Zamula has been returned to the Phantoms. The projected Phantoms' starting lineup on Friday is as follows:
28 Olle Lycksell - 51 Artem Anisimov - 71 Tyson Foerster
17 Garrett Wilson - 91 Elliot Desnoyers - 21 Kieffer Bellows
24 Adam Brooks - 9 Cal O'Reilly 42 Hayden Hodgson
19 Isaac Ratcliffe - 15 Jordy Bellerive - 18 Jackson Cates
4 Egor Zamula - 47 Louie Belpedio
44 Kevin Connauton - 12 Ronnie Attard
37 Adam Ginning - 6 Linus Högberg
30 Samuel Ersson
[73 Nolan Maier]
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