Game 45 Preview: Flyers vs. Ducks
John Tortorella's Philadelphia Flyers (18-19-7) are home on Tuesday evening to host Dallas Eakins' Anaheim Ducks (12-27-5). Game time is 7:00 p.m. ET.
Both teams are playing the second game of a back-to-back set. The Flyers were on the wrong end of a 6-0 blowout on the road on Monday against the Boston Bruins. The Ducks are coming off a 4-3 overtime road loss in a game they end entering the final minute or regulation but couldn't close. On the first shift of overtime, Trevor Zegras botched a 2-on-0 breakaway with a superfluous pass attempt to Cam Fowler, and the Penguins scored in transition on a 2-on-1 attack in which Sidney Crosby fed Jake Guentzel for the game winner.
The Ducks, who rank last in the NHL both in goals per game and goals against average are playing the second game of a six-game road trip. Back on Dec. 2 in Anaheim, the Flyers skated to a 4-1 win. Joel Farabee, Morgan Frost, Travis Konecny and Scott Laughton scored for the Flyers. Samuel Ersson carried a shutout bid for 59-plus minutes before Ryan Strome scored with 40 seconds left in the game to cut the final margin to 4-1.
For an in-depth preview of Tuesday's game, see today's Five Things on PhiladelphiaFlyers.com.
FLYERS
86 Joel Farabee - 49 Noah Cates - 11 Travis Konecny 25 James van Riemsdyk - 48 Morgan Frost - 74 Owen Tippett 13 Kevin Hayes - 21 Scott Laughton - 57 Wade Allison 44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 38 Patrick Brown - 17 Zack MacEwen
9 Ivan Provorov - 45 Cam York 6 Travis Sanheim - 77 Tony DeAngelo 24 Nick Seeler - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen
33 Samuel Ersson 79 Carter Hart
DUCKS
14 Adam Henrique - 37 Mason McTavish - 19 Troy Terry 44 Maxime Comtois - 22 Trevor Zegras - 16 Ryan Strome 77 Frank Vatrano - 39 Sam Carrick - 33 Jakob Silfverberg 49 Max Jones - 7 Jayson Megna - 20 Brett Leason
4 Cam Fowler - 29 Dmitry Kulikov 13 Simon Benoit - 3 John Klingberg 5 Urho Vaakanainen - 22 Kevin Shattenkirk
41 Anthony Stolarz 36 John Gibson