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Quick Hits: Scrimmage Day, World Cup, Prospects |
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QUICK HITS: SEPTEMBER 25. 2016
1) Before the Flyers embark upon their preseason schedule of games, there will be a scrimmage at the Skate Zone in Voorhees at 11 AM today. As always, the session is open and free to the public. Prior to the scrimmage, Groups 1 and 2 will practice at the same time (10:20 a.m.) on the Skate Zone's two rinks.
Practice/ Scrimmage Group 1
FORWARDS
10 Brayden Schenn
17 Wayne Simmonds
19 Jordan Weal
27 Boyd Gordon
38 Chris Conner
42 Petr Straka
46 Mark Zengerle
54 Greg Carey
60 Roman Lyubimov
63 Travis Konecny
70 Danick Martel
75 Pascal Laberge
76 Chris VandeVelde
82 Connor Bunnaman
85 Anthony Salinitri
87 Kevin Sundher
DEFENSE
3 Radko Gudas
43 TJ Brennan
45 Will O’Neill
47 Andrew MacDonald
50 Sam Morin
59 Jesper Pettersson
61 Philippe Myers
64 Ivan Provorov
68 Reece Willcox
GOALIES
35 Steve Mason
79 Carter Hart
86 Mark Dekanich
Practice/Scrimmage Group 2
FORWARDS
12 Michael Raffl
21 Scott Laughton
22 Dale Weise
24 Matt Read
36 Colin McDonald
37 Andy Miele
40 Corban Knight
52 Nick Cousins
56 Tyrell Goulbourne
58 Taylor Leier
62 Nicolas Aube-Kubel
65 Radel Fazleev
71 Samuel Dove-McFalls
72 Steven Swavely
74 Chris McCarthy
81 Carsen Twarynski
DEFENSE
15 Michael Del Zotto
23 Brandon Manning
39 Mark Alt
48 Robert Hägg
55 Nick Schultz
57 Travis Sanheim
73 Maxim Lamarche
83 Garrett McFadden
84 Brennan Menell
GOALIES
41 Anthony Stolarz
49 Alex Lyon
67 Martin Ouellette
2) On Monday, the Flyers have split-squad road games in Newark, NJ against the New Jersey Devils and in Brooklyn against the New York Islanders. Both games start at 7 p.m. ET. The game in New Jersey will be broadcast on the radio on 97.5 FM and the game against the Islanders is slated to be streamed on the Flyers' official website.
On Tuesday, the Flyers host the Islanders at the Wells Fargo Center. On Tuesday, the Flyers play the Devils at the PPL Center in Allentown.
3) In Saturday's practice session, Flyers head coach Dave Hakstol conducted a much more battle-drill oriented day than the opening session on Friday.
"Today there was a little more battle in practice than there was yesterday, but there was also some subtle details mixed into almost each of the drills, but there was definitely more battles in there today with tight spaces, which is what it comes down to in a lot of game situations," Hakstol said during his media availability after the end of practice.
4) Flyers captain Claude Giroux was a healthy scratch (for the third time in the tournament) as Team Canada bombarded former Flyers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky with 47 shots and skated off with a 5-3 victory over Team Russia in the World Cup of Hockey semifinals. Canada will play the winner of Sunday's semifinal between Team Sweden and Team Europe, featuring Flyers players Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Mark Streit. The game will start at 1 p.m. ET and be televised on ESPN in the United States and the CBC in Canada.
5) Flyers left wing prospect Oskar Lindblom posted an assist in Brynäs IF Gävle's 3-1 loss to Frölunda HC Göteborg in the road half of an opening weekend home-and-home set on Saturday. On Friday, Lindblom scored two goals in a 7-2 blowout victory on home ice. Flyers goaltending prospect Felix Sandström was the backup goalie on Saturday after stopping 16 of 18 shots in Friday's win.
6) Flyers 2016 seventh-round pick David Bernhardt scored his second goal of the season for the Djurgårdens IF Stockholm J20 team in a 4-1 home victory over Modo J20 in a J20 SuperElit game on Sunday. Heading into this game, the offensive-minded defenseman had racked up a staggering 21 shots on goal in the first three games, recording four points (one goal, three assists) before adding to those totals earlier today.
7) Flyers 2016 fifth-round pick Linus Högberg dressed as a seventh defenseman for the Växjö Lakers in a 4-3 overtime home win over HV71 Jönköping on Saturday.
8) Flyers 2015 fifth-round pick David Kase was loaned from Czech Extraliga team Pirati Chomutov to Czech minor league team SK Kadan. Kase had no points in four games for Chomutov thus far.
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