Game 56 Preview: Flyers vs. Blackhawks

Iinterim head coach Mike Yeo's Philadelphia Flyers (17-28-10) will host Peter DeBoer's Vegas Golden Knights (32-21-4) on Tuesday evening at the Wells Fargo Center. Game time is 7:00 p.m. ET (NBCSP, 97.5 The Fanatic).

The Flyers are 2-4-1 through the first seven games of their record eight-game homestand. The homestand wraps up with this game. The Golden Knights are opening a five-game road trip.

There is a possible fatigue factor heading into this game because the Golden Knights will be playing their fifth game in eight nights (and fourth in the last six nights). The Philadelphia club, meanwhile, has had no travel yet this month and a two-night game schedule hiatus since Saturday afternoon's tilt.

On Saturday, the Flyers earned a 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. It was a physical game with seesawing momentum. The Flyers led 1-0 and then trailed by scores of 2-1 and 3-2 before coming back to pull out a regulation win. Martin Jones earned the win in net while Cam Atkinson scored twice, Joel Farabee provided a pair of key assists and both Oskar Lindblom (deflection goal) and Derick Brassard tallied once apiece.

Vegas enters this game coming off a 2-1 home victory against the Ottawa Senators on Sunday. Jack Eichel's goal in the final 5.3 seconds of regulation -- his third as a Golden Knight after being acquired from the Buffalo Sabres -- won the game for Vegas. Earlier, Jonathan Marchessault (24th goal of the season) broke a scoreless deadlock at 6:24 of the second period. Robin Lehner stopped 39 of 40 Senator shots to earn the win.

Carter Hart will get the start in goal for the Flyers. Gerry Mayhew and Nick Seeler will re-enter the lineup after being scratched against Chicago.

Projected lineups (subject to change, and will be updated) are below. For an in-depth look at the matchups for this game, see Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com.

FLYERS

28 Claude Giroux - 21 Scott Laughton - 11 Travis Konecny
86 Joel Farabee - 19 Derick Brassard - 89 Cam Atkinson
23 Oskar Lindblom - 13 Kevin Hayes - 25 James van Riemsdyk
20 Gerry Mayhew - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen

9 Ivan Provorov - 61 Justin Braun
6 Travis Sanheim - 70 Rasmus Ristolainen
3 Keith Yandle - 24 Nick Seeler

79 Carter Hart
[35 Martin Jones]

PP1: Giroux, Farabee, JVR, Atkinson, Yandle
PP2: Brassard, Hayes, Ristolainen, Konecny. Provorov

GOLDEN KNIGHTS

67 Max Pacioretty - 9 Jack Eichel - 10 Nicolas Roy
81 Jonathan Marchessault - 71 William Karlsson - 19 Reilly Smith
28 William Carrier - 20 Chandler Stephenson - 22 Mike Amadio
63 Evgenii Dadonov - 15 Jake Leschyshyn - 55 Keegan Kolesar

14 Nicolas Hague - 7 Alex Pietrangelo
27 Shea Theodore - 2 Zach Whitecloud
17 Ben Hutton - 52 Dylan Coghlin

90 Robin Lehner
39 Laurent Brossoit

PP1: Pacioretty, Eichel, Marchessault, Dadonov, Theodore
PP2: Roy, Stephenson, Smith, Karlsson, Pietrangelo

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