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UPDATE: LINEUPS
FLYERS
25 James van Riemsdyk - 48 Morgan Frost - 49 Joel Farabee
44 Nate Thompson - 21 Scott Laughton - 62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel
20 Gerry Mayhew - 46 Cal O'Reilly - 52 Tyson Foerster
47 Garrett Wilson - 59 Jackson Cates - 36 Linus Sandin
6 Travis Sanheim - 70 Rasmus Ristolainen
45 Cam York - 5 Adam Clendening
24 Nick Seeler - 65 Wyatte Wiley
35 Martin Jones
32 Felix Sandström
BRUINS
63 Brad Marchand - 37 Patrice Bergeron - 88 David Pastrnak
71 Taylor Hall - 23 Jack Studnicka - 12 Craig Smith
74 Jake DeBrusk - 56 Erik Haula - 17 Nick Foligno
11 Cameron Hughes - 53 Trent Frederic - 14 Chris Wagner
28 Derek Forbort - 73 Charlie McAvoy
48 Matt Grzelcyk - 25 Brandon Carlo
79 Mike Reilly - 6 Brady Lyle
1 Jeremy Swayman
31 Troy Grosenick
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Gameday Preview: Flyers @ Bruins
On Thursday evening, the Flyers will play the Boston Bruins in Beantown at TD Garden. Game time is 7 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on TNT and on the radio at 97.5 The Fanatic. The Flyers are coming off a 3-2 overtime loss at home against the New York Islanders on Tuesday.
The Flyers lineup will look different for this game from the roster that played against the Islanders. The defense pair of Travis Sanheim and newcomer Rasmus Ristolainen will make its preseason debut together. The top two forward lines will be the trios of James van Riemsdyk, Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee as well as the combination of Scott Laughton, Nate Thompson and Nicolas Aube-Kubel. Goal-scoring wing prospect Tyson Foerster and veteran defenseman Nick Seeler will be the only two players who appeared in the opener against the Islanders who will also dress for this game. Young defenseman Cam York will also appear in this game.
Martin Jones will play periods one and two in the net for the Flyers. Felix Sandström will take over at the start of the third period.
The Bruins have already played two preseason games. On Sunday, the team skated to a 3-2 road shootout win against the Capitals. On Tuesday, the Bruins lost in regulation, 3-2, to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden.
When game-day rosters are available, they will be added as updates to today's blog.
Injury updates: Laczynski and Allison
Tanner Laczynski is likely to undergo left hip surgery and miss most or all of the 2021-22 season, per Flyers head coach Alain Vigneault. Laczynski underwent surgery in the spring to repair a torn labrum in his other hip.
Wade Allison (severe right high ankle sprain) is consulting with doctors to determine whether surgery is the right course of action to take. He is out indefinitely.
Quick Hits: September 30, 2021
* It is expected that the Flyers will soon have announcements related to the selection committee voting on one or more new inductees to the Flyers Hall of Fame and the date. The six finalists selected by the nominating committee were as follows: Simon Gagne, Paul Holmgren, Bob Kelly, Lou Nolan, Mark Recchi and Rick Tocchet.
* KHL: Flyers goalie prospect Alexei Kolosov turned back 22 of 23 shots for Dinamo Minsk in a 3-1 home win over Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk on Thursday. Kolosov flirted with a shutout for 57-plus minutes until the visiting side scored an otherwise meaningless power play goal late in the third period. For the season to date, the 19-year-old Kolosov has a 5-4-0 record, 2.11 GAA, .929 save percentage and one shutout in nine starts.
* SHL: Two Flyers prospects are in action today: Adam Ginning and Färjestad BK Karlstad are on the road to play Skellefteå AIK, while Olle Lycksell and the Växjö Lakers are on the road to play the Malmö Redhawks. Lycksell (2g, 3a) has five points through his team's first five games of the regular season.
* Shockingly relegated to Allsvenskan last season after being a longtime perennial contender in Elitserien/SHL, HV71 improved its record this season to 2-0-0 on Thursday with a 4-1 home win over Västerås. Flyers defense prospect Emil Andrae has played a lot of minutes in both games to date.
* Sept. 30 Flyers Alum birthday: Former Flyers/Phantoms right wing Colin McDonald was born on Sept. 30, 1984 in Wethersfield, CT. McDonald spent four years with the organization, including dressing in eight regular season games and three 2016 playoff games for the Flyers.
A former 40-goal scorer at the AHL level (Oklahoma City Barons in 2010-11), McDonald could could move all around an AHL lineup as needed and provide leadership. He scored 25 goals for the Phantoms in 2016-17. At the NHL level, where he appeared in a total of 148 regular season games (20 goals, 26 assists, 46 points, 73 PIM), the 6-foot-2, 220 pound forward was deployed almost exclusively as a fourth-line player who brought a physical presence and a hard-working player in the trenches. He retired in 2020 at age 36 after a 14-season pro playing career.
Back during his collegiate hockey days at Providence, McDonald was teammates and roommates with Chase Watson; the son of Flyers Hall of Fame defenseman Jimmy Watson and the nephew of Flyers Hall of Fame defenseman Joe Watson.
* Today in Flyers History: Sept. 30, 1996
The Flyers got double-dinged during the pre-season NHL Waiver Draft. The team lost two unprotected veteran forwards when the Phoenix Coyotes claimed Bob Corkum and the San Jose Sharks claimed Rob DiMaio.
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