Game 57 Preview: Flyers @ Canucks

In the second game of a four game western road trip, John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (22-24-10) are in British Columbia on Saturday to take on Rick Tocchet's Vancouver Canucks (21-30-4). Game time at Rogers Arena is 10:00 p.m. ET.

This is the second and final meeting between the teams this season, and the lone game in Vancouver. Back on Oct. 15 -- the second game of the regular season for the Flyers -- the Flyers overcame a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Canucks at the Wells Fargo Center by a 3-2 score.

The lone positive from Thursday's debacle: a pair of third-period goals by Travis Konecny (25th and 26th of the season) ended a 13-game goalless/ eight-game pointless drought. On Wednesday evening, Vancouver suffered a 6-4 loss to the New York Rangers at Rogers Arena.

The Flyers were originally slated to have a day off on Friday after the short trip from Seattle to Vancouver. That plan was changed amid Thursday's debacle, and the team practiced in Vancouver on Friday.

For an in-depth preview of Saturday's game, see today's Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com. When lineups are available, they will be added to to this blog.

STARTING LINEUP

Flyers

44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny
13 Kevin Hayes - 21 Scott Laughton - Owen TIippett
86 Joel Farabee - 48 Morgan Frost - 38 Patrick Brown
25 James van Riemsdyk - [rotating centers] - 57 Wade Allison

9 Ivan Provorov - 6 Travis Sanheim
45 Cam York - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
24 Nick Seeler - 77 Tony DeAngelo / 61 Justin Braun

79 Carter Hart
[33 Samuel Ersson]

Canucks

96 Andrei Kuzmenko - 40 Elias Pettersson - 72 Anthony Beauvillier
34 Phil Di Giuseppe - 9 J.T. Miller - 6 Brock Boeser
92 Vasily Podkolzin - 18 Jack Studnicka - 20 Curtis Lazar (?)
81 Dakota Joshua - Nils Åman - 15 Sheldon Dries

43 Quinn Hughes - 74 Ethan Bear
61 Riley Stillman - 57 Tyler Myers
44 Kyle Burroughs - 2 Luke Schenn

60 Collin Delia
31 Arturs Silovs

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