UPDATE 2:30 PM EDT
Here are some updates on the Vancouver lineup for Friday via Canucks' writer Ben Kuzma:
Tocchet giving Lankinen the net tonight. Juulsen replaces Desharnais, Suter will wing it, Aman will sit. #Canucks
— Ben Kuzma 🇺🇦 (@benkuzma) October 11, 2024
Preview: Flyers @ Canucks
On opening night of the 2024-25 regular season, the Flyers (0-0-0) are in British Columbia to take on the Vancouver Canucks (0-0-1). Game time is 10:00 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. Pacific).
Friday's game will mark the NHL debuts of both 19-year-old Matvei Michkov and 18-year-old Jett Luchanko. Philly is dealing with the absence of defenseman Nick Seeler, who took a puck off his knee in the Oct. 1 exhibition game in Boston and been unable to practice since then. The Flyers expected to recall second-year young defenseman Emil Andrae on Saturday for the team's game in Calgary. Veteran Erik Johnson will step into the starting lineup for the opener in Vancouver.
On the Vancouver side, the Canucks are dealing with the injury-related absence of No. 1 goaltender Thatcher Demko. The Canucks are coming off a 6-5 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames on Wednesday. Vancouver built a 4-1 lead through the opening 20 minutes but were unable to protect it. Arturs Silovs was in net for the opener. The Canucks may opt for Kevin Lankinen against the Flyers.
For an in-depth preview of Friday's game, see Five Things.
PROJECTED LINEUPS (subject to change)
FLYERS
39 Matvei Michkov - 14 Sean Couturier - 11 Travis Konecny 74 Owen Tippett - 48 Morgan Frost - 71 Tyson Foerster 86 Joel Farabee - 17 Jett Luchanko - 10 Bobby Brink 21 Scott Laughton - 25 Ryan Poehling - 19 Garnet Hathaway
8 Cam York - 6 Travis Sanheim 5 Egor Zamula - 9 Jamie Drysdale 55 Rasmus Ristolainen - 77 Erik Johnson
33 Samuel Ersson [82 Ivan Fedotov]
PP1: Drysdale, Tippett, Frost, Konecny, Michkov PP2: Zamula, Foerster, Luchanko, Farabee, Brink
Scratches: 27 Noah Cates (healthy), 44 Nicolas Deslauriers (healthy), 24 Nick Seeler (lower-body).
CANUCKS
74 Jake DeBrusk - 40 Elias Pettersson - 91 Daniel Sprong 20 Danton Heinen - 9 J.T. Miller - 6 Brock Boeser 21 Nils Höglander - 54 Aatu Rà¤ty - 8 Conor Garland 88 Nils à…man - 53 Teddy Blueger - 44 Kiefer Sherwood
43 Quinn Hughes - 17 Filip Hronek 7 Carson Soucy - 57 Tyler Myers 27 Derek Forbort - 73 Vincent Desharnais
31 Kevin Lankinen 32 Arturs Silovs